Ryan Hoover

Phoneys - Troll your friends by putting words in other people's texts

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Ryan Hoover
So troll. My dad's going to get so confused. 😁 h/t @sarahintampa for this find.
KerryBodle
Does this work in group chat? Can I make my own stickers? Fantasy Football season, so this could get really ugly! Ha
Adam Howell
@liquidchickenqq Hey Kerry! Yes, they work great in group chat. Yesterday several people suggested the ability to make their own phoneys. And at first, I thought it was a GREAT idea. But, one of the things I worked hard on with the current sticker pack was keeping them very positive and light-hearted to prevent abuse. I didn't want anything in the sticker pack that could be used to offend or make people uncomfortable. After thinking about it a lot, I've decided that letting people write whatever they wanted would create a lot of possibilities for abuse. So I'm not going to do it :/
Charlie Dewitte
The reviews on the app store aren't too stellar. Mismatched fonts & placing issues.
Adam Howell
@maximumhq Man, tell me about it. I feel bad, but well over half of those reviews are people not able to wrap their heads around the simple fact that if you put one of the stickers over top of someone's gray text on YOUR phone, that doing that will make it show up over top of the blue text of the receiver on THEIR phone. I'm not sure there's anything I could do within the confines of a sticker pack to fix that fundamental misunderstanding of the joke.
Charlie Dewitte
@ahow 15 second video tutorial on website and App Store (: consumers aren't the smartest
Shawn Kirsch
@ahow @maximumhq I think this is the common conundrum of users using the app, vs developers making the app. It's about making sure they don't go down the wrong path in the first place.
Ashutosh Singh Rawat
👏👏 you took Stickers and really thought out of the box! Well done. 👏 😎
Nitesh Mishra
Love it
Elizabeth
This is exactly, no more, no less, but exactly, as cute as a button. @rrhoover @ahow
Jordan Sztern
Ooh... this will get interesting. So many people to troll ;)
Skyler Hair
I usually don't like pranks/trolling but this is pretty funny and light-hearted. +1
Andreas Dias
I liked the idea, but it seems that they're easily discernable from real texts as they have text in the bottom as per the reviews on iTunes I guess
Amol Patil
@andreas_dias Yea that's my concern too although some of the reviews were unreliable. People think that the colors are wrong and bubble direction inverted but it's actually correct. It needs to be inverted. Not sure about the text at the bottom though and the size of image and font. That would be a giveaway.
Heidi Helen Pilypas
@a_patil @andreas_dias - that's right. The thing is, it looks incorrect on your side but it will look correct on the other person's side. People don't get how iMessages work.
Adam Howell
Thanks a lot for the hunt, Ryan!
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