Snapchat's platform has feature multiple anonymous polling apps, including Yolo and LMK, where users can ask questions to their friends who can then answer anonymously - and also turned out to be far from immune to abuse. Nonetheless, Discord said in the blog post that 'Gas' founders have a proven track record of creating exciting apps and experiences.' Its founder Nikita Bier previously sold tbh, another poll-based app, to Facebook in 2017, but the app was shut down in less than a year due to low usage.

If you have not heard of Gas, it did not come out of nowhere. Gas allows users to anonymously share compliments with one another via polls, or as TheVerge noted in a report on the deal, 'The app is designed for anonymous compliments and positive affirmations or, as kids say, gassing your friends up.' Its tremendous success shows the opportunity that exists in creating a playful yet meaningful place for young people,' Discord stated in a blog post about the deal.

'Gas is all about uplifting and empowering each other through positive affirmations. So there is good reason for the next big thing in social media to be all about positivity, and here we are again, with social media company Discord announcing the acquisition of Gas this week, a quickly growing social media company designed to promote positive affirmations. Social media is also facing one of its greatest legal challenges ever, with the Supreme Court poised to review whether Section 230 statute of the Communications Decency Act should provide these companies with immunity from user content liability claims, as has been the case throughout their rise.

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