For those unfamiliar, there are profiles on Instagram and Facebook called something like "(city name)_spotted" where people anonymously post either descriptions of people they saw in public, or pictures they secretly took of them, in order to find out their social media without asking in person. It's quite popular here in Croatia, though primarily with high schoolers.
It depends. My city's Spotted is doing pretty well. And from a quick search the ones for Kielce and Sosnowiec are all good. But yeah, Katowice, Bydgoszcz and Wrocław are either dead or full of news articles/ads.
German here. Never heard of that, but I might also be too old. Nonetheless, publishing anyone's picture without their consent is against the law.
Also hella creepy.
In Poland it was just text description, long before being creepy arrived to our discourse.
InGermany at öleast the pictures thing op described would have been illegal anyway laws regarding once image are very strict here, even surveilance cams ae not allowed to face public streets in most cases, with very few exceptions
It was popular in Romania, idk how popular it is anymore, it isn't called spotted, but rather "Bongo_[city name]"
Why Bongo? There is this messaging service where you can message against a fee and it tells you the future. And it was promoted by so many vloggers.
We also had Bongo. It was never as popular as Spotted, though.
Yeah I wouldn't be surprised if that blue monkey is popular in other countries.
I’ve seen some Polish pages on Facebook a few years ago, with the name “Spotted…city name” or even spotted and public transportation services. Some stories posted on these pages were hilarious and made me rolling on the floor 😂
The one for my city is still alive and kicking. My husband love reading it.
In Poland very popular.
I run through largest cities in Sweden and didn't find a single page. Pretty sure people here doesn't even know it's a thing.
My university in Italy has one and other universities in the country as well, so at least with university students it’s quite popular.
It was very popular some time ago. Spotted accounts still exists but I don't think many people care about them now
Serbia - they were popular, but mostly among kids (I think). And I've recently saw an ad for some kind of a Spotted app or website 🤷🏼♀️
It was a thing in Poland 10? 15? years ago
I've seen some turning into local adverts sites and most just died