TNW Quick Hit
Feature Creature – Funny Shoppers is the free iPhone app version of PeopleofWalmart.com.
Love it: One of the greatest and most hilarious internet time kills is now available on the iPhone.
Hate it: Inability to post favorites and personal discoveries to social networks. Having a constant reminder that those featured on the site and now, app, inhabit the same earth as I do.
Overall: 4/5
The Details:
PeopleOfWalmart.com, one of the great websites for viewing odd humans and in the process making oneself feel normal, has launched an iPhone app which brings the best of its website straight to your phone.
The app, called “Feature Creature – Funny Shoppers,” has removed Walmart from its name (probably to avoid a potentially filthy lawsuit) but has kept all the fun.
According to the developers, ALA Design, LLC, the app can be described in the following way, “You know that person you spot every time you go shopping at certain chain department store? That’s Feature Creature. It’s like spotting the Loch Ness Monster or Bigfoot, only this creature is shopping for Doritos and wearing a camouflage moo-moo at your local store. Snap a picture, tell us about your spotting and we’ll share it with the world.”
The Feature Creature iPhone app allows one to browse all of the hilarious archived photos, share a picture of your own by choosing a photo of an existing person from your iPhone’s photos, or snap a picture while in the app, and then sending the photo to Feature Creature with the built-in photo submission capabilities.
Feature Creature – Funny Shoppers is a good, not great, app at this point. Their are occasional crashes, and it would be nice to email images and post great finds to social networks. The developers will no doubt add these features in the future, with, “future updates and features will be dependent upon the feedback we receive and the users we reach.”
Isn’t that kind of mean to post candid pictures of people not at their best for all the world to see?
Have you ever visited the PeopleofWalmart.com? If the people photographed go out in public looking like they do, the least we can do is marvel, laugh at and celebrate, their confidence in doing so.
Oh STFU! It’s funny. If you don’t want people to laugh at you, don’t worry funny clothes.
looks like the walmart in town here
That’s the great thing about this app. Always there for a quick laugh and self-esteem boost! Thanks for reading and commenting!
My ipHone is definitely ready to get this app working!@ Thanks for sharing this one. I never thought such app exists! Better get this one today and see where all the fun is coming from!
There is a great deal of fun in this app. Always ready for you to find something funny or shake the phone for random laughs! Thanks for reading and commenting!
The link isn’t working for me, and I can’t find it in the App Store. I’m computer-less ATM so I’m on my iPhone. I haven’t updated to iOS4 yet; could that be the problem? I can’t view their blog on my phone either. Am disappoint. =\
That’s because it was removed. People can go out in public looking stupid, but we can’t make public what they already made public….or something like that.
Despite removing WalMart references, which allowed the app’s approval after initially being rejected, Apple removed it claiming they couldn’t allow such obscene content in the App Store. Another great app gone. For now…
Wow, quick reply! I read about the censoring right after I posted my comment. Came back to say “Disregard!”, but you beat me to it. :) Thanks anyway.
Eric is right. Despite removing WalMart references, which allowed the app’s approval after initially being rejected, Apple removed it claiming they couldn’t allow such obscene content in the App Store. Another great app gone. For now…
Right, the point is, these people are comfortable walking into walmart (public) like this and letting the local people see them like that. Why not let the world see it too. Of course this could make the USA look stupid.