Timing. Similar to how Vine failed whereas Tik Tok flourished. Beme as a concept was great but for the time (2016-onwards) it had to compete with peak Instagram, Snapchat, etc. Also just the user base that BeReal targeted (iPad kid/social media generation) was too young to really use social media.
Also was spread widely on TikTok and got free advertising/word of mouth
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