What Is The Google Arts & Culture App And Why Are People Going Gaga Over It?

As yet another emerging trend in the fast-moving internet industry, it seems Google lit a fire on social media by updating its Google Arts & Culture app. It basically became an app that matches the photos of users with portraits or artwork that are supposed to have a close or even uncanny resemblance to them. While this concept might seem simple, indeed practically barely worth noting, people are still going crazy over it.

As USA Today reports, Twitter is absolutely blowing up with people posting pictures of themselves and the paintings that they were matched with when using the app. Now, it’s worth noting that the app itself has existed for over two years, but it wasn’t until mid-December that it really started picking up.

This is thanks to the new feature that Google added to it, which basically allowed users to take selfies of themselves and then compare. Once the posts started spreading on social media, it sparked a frenzy of users who wanted to know if there was a work of art out there that they resembled.

The app has become so successful, in fact, that some people are actually expressing outrage that it isn’t available in all areas. One of these is the Twitter user catland rose dewitt bukater, who wrote that she was upset about the fact that the app was not available in Chicago.