What Happened to
WeChat last Night !??!?
If you didn't notice at all what happened to wechat last night let me give you a quick hint ! Everything in moments picture went Blur, Yes It went Blurrr (like pictures above)!!!!
Well don't worry though it was not an error, but actually quite surprising it was a test drive game that Wechat created In preparation for the upcoming Chinese New Year.
So What, How, Why and when they did it?
This new feature just launced for a few hours starting from 5 oclock in the evening to encourage users to give hongbaos (lucky money as we all say ) to their friends in return for seeing the full unblurred picture, but the feature was immediately withdrawn from WeChat at 8 oclock last night. Althought the blurry pictures stayed longer on the moments till midnight and will be deleted automatically after midnight.
So now we're detailing how does this thing work?
Did you Notice a little gold camera button on your WeChat Moments yesterday? It was that lucky button that could bring you money !! By simply pressing it the below picture will show
This is What will be seen on moments
To unblur a friend’s image, simply click on it, press the button marked 發紅包看照片 (send a lucky money to view the picture) and you will be asked to pay a random amount of money, yes that is right you cannot decide how much amout you have to pay, wechat decides for you
TADAAAAA..
Not really worth the money i guess, some even joke they are too poor now to see moments.
Saw the "Shake" option in discovery? Yes press that and you will get a hongbao. This one start later then the hongbao game on moments. There are 2 rounds 8 p.m. and 9 p.m. for 2 hours.
That's the good news for the moment, now for the bad news.
Unfortunately, it seems like it was only available if you were using a Chinese version of Wechat. If it was true than expats probably couldn't play this game. But hey maybe they will open it for non-Chinese version on the premier game, who knows.
Now for the other good news, For you guys who missed it, it's said there will be another more crazinest of this hongbao game on New Year's Eve, on February 7. Don't forget !!