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You can read all about it in this article: https://www.businessinsider.com/why-snapchat-is-funding-real-life-website-2016-6?international=true&r=US&IR=T https:

You can read all about it in this article: https://www.businessinsider.com/why-snapchat-is-funding-real-life-website-2016-6?international=true&r=US&IR=T https://www.businessinsider.com/why-snapchat-is-funding-real... tl;dr: The editor wrote an interesting essay that caught the attention of Snapchat CEO, which wanted more of this output. What's interesting is that Real Life is highly critical about technology, while you would expect based on the funding a sort of think tank creating pro-tech fluff pieces.

Hasz 8y ago
Thank you - interesting story, and a very interesting editor.
icebraining 8y ago
> What's interesting is that Real Life is highly critical about technology, while you would expect based on the funding a sort of think tank creating pro-tech fluff pieces. It's not an uncommon case. Black Mirror even lampooned it back in its second episode (Fifteen Million Merits).