Your Pigeon Might Die: Inside the Slow-Messaging App Craze
Forget instant messaging, apps like Carrier Pidge and Roost are going viral by making texts arrive slower, simulating pigeons flying real-world distances between senders. Carrier Pidge even lets your pigeon die mid-flight, forcing you to buy a new one. It's basically Tamagotchi meets Slowly, the pen pal app that's been doing this since the 2010s, except now it has cute animals and Gen Z calling deliberately bad UX 'better.'
Nothing says 'digital detox' like a microtransaction to resurrect a cartoon bird.