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It ’s official — the hot girls are using Pinterest .
Megan Thee Stallionsat downfor a panelduring Social Media Week and revealed that the image curation site is in reality one of her preferred apps . She said she decided to blue-pencil Twitter ( now holler X ) and Instagram from her phone , leaving Pinterest and TikTok as two of her favorite societal apps .
This news is n’t surprising when you consider that Pinterest is having a instant . The societal app had almost 500 million monthly participating users as of Q4 2023 , an 11 % year - over - year increment , with total tax revenue pip $ 3 billion , according toits latest quarterly earningsreport . Pinterest is also get strides tostay relevantwith Generation Z — it has theCreator Inclusion Fundand has implementednew technologyto help withinclusive searchon the site . As of last summer , around 40 % of Pinterest ’s global monthly active users are part of Generation Z , the company told us .
Megan Thee Stallion talking about her favourite app being Pinterest during ADWeek ’s Social Media Week event.pic.twitter.com/mQ1l5jbaJm
Megan thee Stallion did not respond to TechCrunch ’s request for gossip .
It ’s interesting to see because Pinterest can feel underrated or underspoken about .
That ’s mainly because the conversation around social media apps often focuses on doom and glumness , while Pinterest has managed to mostly escape those mainstream discussions . When tech CEOs were haul in totestify before Congress , Pinterest was absent . Despitea high - visibility controversyaround the app ’s lack of teen safety features , the troupe address it with new controls and the intelligence cycle strike on to other topics .
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To some extent , Pinterest ’s draw may be from how users can curate their own experiences . They do n’t have to interact with random unknown , as on Twitter / X , and can avoid contact with communities they do not desire to interact with . There is also a feeling of have more control condition in learn the algorithm to show exactly what is require by activities like pin and creating boards .
“ We think it ’s potential to have a social weapons platform that enhances your spirit — alternatively of disquiet you from it . That brings out your best instincts — rather of predate on your worst , ” Pinterest ’s principal subject officeholder , Malik Ducard , told us . “ Pinterest is designed to be a positive position where masses can figure out who they in reality are — off from the everyday strain of news and on-line comparison and commentary . ”
Pinterest tell us it had seen a 40 % year - over - year increase in Gen Zers using the internet site to search for celebs , which contribute itself to the possibility that vernal people are using alternatives to Google platform for the content they are looking for . Gen Zers are alsomore likely to use TikTok for hunt inquiriesrather than a traditional search engine .
Megan Thee Stallion has a vested interest in Pinterest , having antecedently worked with the troupe . She participated in the Pinterest Creators Festival in 2021 and had a Pinterest board with Isaac M. Singer Reneé Rapp to elevate their latest Song dynasty together , which , unsurprisingly , name - dropped Pinterest . Pinterest has been using instrument panel drops to work more with creatives and give users a behind - the - scenes look atwhat inspiresmany of their favorite artists . Big names also use it in a personal capacity , too .
Rapper50 Centrevealed that he ’s on Pinterest to find inspiration , while actress Rachel Zegler recentlyspoke about herlove of the social platform , and Sofia Richie Grainge speak to Vogue aboutlaunching secret boardsto assist design her wedding . For the most part , though , even celebrities , many of whom are loud on X and Instagram , are commonly smooth about their biography on Pinterest . It ’s true many of them have brand profiles , but it ’s likely they also have their own private write up , like Megan Thee Stallion insinuated during her panel .
As it stands , the site remains one of the last remaining quiet places on the cyberspace — somewhere to have aspirational mood table without insistence to prove anything to anyone . It makes sentience that in an earned run average of on-line hate and oversaturation , the great unwashed would escape to a more peaceable corner of the internet to dream once more .