Welcome to YOLLO

We meet up (or call, or text), catch up on life, dive into random topics, and bounce between plans, jokes, crushes, and gossip. Maybe it's a 3 AM bike ride, a brunch plan, or the latest school drama, but whatever it is, we follow the energy. If something feels interesting, we talk more. If not, we move on.

That’s how conversations work. Natural, unforced, in the moment. No one’s recording every word forever, and no one demands you forget things after a set deadline. We just talk, evolve, and shift topics. Our friendships aren’t defined by our past — they’re shaped by how we show up today. Real friendships happen in the moment. Not weeks or months later.

Think about it: if your friend asked about school gossip, would you tell them what happened last year? If they wanted a restaurant recommendation, would you send them to one that shut down months ago? No… so why are our social apps still built like that?

The social apps that were supposed to bring us closer, but they just made us feel more out of sync with what our friends were up to. They became time machines. Full of yesterday's news, last week's highlights, and last month's memes. Those not so gold old days in pre-YOLLO era. We were entertained but lost the friends’ moments along the way.

Mission

At YOLLO, we want to create a less lonely world by bridging the gap between real-life and online life. A world where friendships foster in real time. A world where friends can keep up with each other like they are constantly next to each other. A world which is all about right now!

YOLLO is the digital version of how friendships actually work in real life. Making friends is as easy as pie on YOLLO.

Social media app feeds and their search results

If you’re or ever have been on social media at all, you know that today’s feed, search and suggested posts are often a big jumble of old and irrelevant content that often looks like this:

• Christmas photos during Super Bowl weekend
• Super Bowl memes while you’re grilling for 4th of July
• Halloween costume inspo... during Christmas dinner
• New Year fireworks while you’re prepping for Valentine’s

You scroll through hours-old, days-old, and sometimes months-old content, trying to feel connected. But you're always the last to know what's actually going on with those you care about. NO MORE BEING THE LAST ONE TO KNOW WHAT YOUR FRIENDS ARE UP TO.

You search for that new Italian restaurant or upcoming music tour of Taylor Swift, and what do you get? You get a never-ending mindless vortex of outdated results from days, months, and sometimes years ago.

It's not the 2000s anymore. It's the 2020s, and all these so-called social media apps are stuck in the past. You deserve an app that moves with you.

Are you tired of constantly seeing…

• hours old, out of context updates on X, Snapchat, Bereal?
• days ago picture of your bestie's night out on FB, Instagram?
• weeks old photo dump of your fam’s vacation on Instagram, VSCO, Lemon 8?
• months old conference and job announcements on LinkedIn?
• even worse, those years-old trends being wrapped up as new ones on REDnote (Xiahongshu), TikTok, Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts, like it's happening at THIS. VERY. MOMENT?

If so, you are not alone! This is why YOLLO exists.

No more endless scrolling. No more irrelevant flashbacks. No more wondering what your friends are actually doing right now. With YOLLO, it’s all current. All alive. All real.

What Makes YOLLO Different

• ⏳ Share pics that live only for a limited time.
• ❤️ The more friends engage, the longer your post stays up.
• 🕹️ Friends can add extra time to make your post trend longer.
• 📅 No engagement? The moment fades into memories, like real life.
• 🔥 No more hours-old updates. It's fresh, or it's gone.
• 🕛 No more scrolling days & weeks old posts.
• 😅 Exactly how you goss with your bestie in IRL
• 📅 Your past doesn't define your present perception.

Your content doesn’t live forever and neither does it have a pre-fixed deadline. It lasts as long as your friends engage with it. Once the moment’s over, it fades.

Just like it would in real life. It’s social networking that feels social again.

Why another social networking app?

Broken Ideas Since the 2000s: How are we supposed to be social, fun, casual, vulnerable, or authentic when the moments we share are either outdated by the time they’re seen, stuck online forever (yes, even that cringe frat party photo from a decade ago), or vanish after 24 hours like they never mattered? It’s either forever or forgettable. There’s no in-between.

Chronological Feeds Make No Sense: We don’t talk to our friends in a timeline: “I woke up at 7, ate at 8, worked at 9.” And we don’t just talk about big things like promotions or birthdays every time we hang out. Real life is random and messy. Our conversations bounce around. Our friendships evolve. So why are social platforms still trying to box us into an outdated format?

The New Wave Didn’t Fix It Either: The next generation of apps promised better, but gave us:

• 2-minute daily check-ins to “be real,”
• a cap on how many friends we can have,
• anonymous features that only invite more bullying,
• and paid features that charge us to talk to strangers or, worse, engage with AI “friends.”

None of it made us feel closer. None of it made us feel seen. None of it made us feel real.

We didn’t need a new gimmick. We needed a new mindset. A mindset to take us back to basics.

Need more reasons?

Doom Scrolling: Social apps are filled with endless, outdated posts that never disappear. One scroll turns into twenty minutes, and you're stuck in a loop that never ends.

Past Haunting the Present: You can’t be yourself when every post feels permanent. We don’t talk to friends wondering if they’ll bring up something we said months ago, so why do we accept it online?

Never-Ending Trollers: Block one, another appears. They even dig into old posts for attention. It’s exhausting, and reporting them doesn’t stop the cycle.

Loneliness Crisis: Despite all the messaging and calling apps, we still feel isolated. We overthink texting first, fear being annoying, and now we’re being offered AI “friends” instead of real human connection.

No Value in Engagement: Likes, views, and comments mean little when algorithms decide what gets seen. Your effort doesn’t equal reach — which makes real connection feel impossible.

Past is Present, and Present is Never Present: Social media doesn’t honor time (even search engines don’t respect time but that debate it for another day). You’re constantly served old content as if it’s new.

Past Judging Present: These platforms let people judge us based on 100s of old posts easily available on our profiles. We change every day so why should you be judged based on yesterday’s post?

New Creators Can’t Break Through: These platforms recycle the same high-engagement content from the past, making it hard for new creators to get visibility. If no one sees your moment, what’s the point?

Time Wasted Never Comes Back: You open the app for one update and lose twenty minutes. When you finally put your phone down, you feel worse, not better.

Validation from “Others”: We get excited about sharing something real. But if it doesn’t get likes right away, we delete it. Our confidence ends up tied to others.

No Control Over Privacy: Gen Z curates their profiles carefully, but platforms still don’t give them full control over who sees what, or how long it’s visible.

Never Being in the Moment: It’s like getting Valentine’s gift ideas while preparing for the Easter break. These platforms are never in sync with your real life, so how can they help build real friendships?

Constant Comparison: We all compare ourselves sometimes. Afterall, it’s human. But online, those feelings stick longer. Why no one wished me Happy Birthday? Why no DMs on my story? Why no likes? It’s a trap from which you can’t move on from.

Not Allowed to Move On: Getting ghosted, having a bad day; it’s ok, we move on in real life. But social media won’t let us. Moments either stay forever or disappear on a pre-fixed deadline. We’re never allowed to let go on our terms.

We change every day. But these platforms don’t give us space to reflect that change. In real life, we don’t delete every conversation we have. Instead, we just move forward. The internet should work the same way. It should allow moving on as easy as a pie.

Your past doesn’t define who you are. What matters is who you are today.

What Did Gen Z Want from Social Apps?

They wanted real spaces to be spontaneous, weird, vulnerable, and authentic. Places to figure things out, feel supported, and connect without fear of judgment; the kind of digital freedom millennials once had.

They didn’t want to archive their lives. They just wanted to capture a moment and maybe, in an age of constant surveillance, they’re absolutely right. YOLLO is already paying attention, are you?

What Did Gen Z Get?

Instead, they got privacy nightmares, bullying, trolling, loneliness, anxiety, and the feeling of always wasting time. They got copycat apps, dead platforms trying to come back to life, and endless suggested content instead of updates from actual friends. They got AI slop and broken promises — all pretending to help them “be real” or grow their circle, but delivering the exact opposite.

Why us?

YOLLO is born out of the mental health struggles of two George Washington University students. They have personally dealt with suicide attempts, clinical depression, anxiety, low self-esteem, body image issues, loneliness, bullying & financial struggles.

They traveled around the world, made friends, shared stories, and kept learning on their journey of self-discovery. They realized that social networking was never a tech problem; it was always an emotional problem.

They built YOLLO because they needed a sense of realness and they knew others did too. It was finally time to fix the foundation of broken social networking. YOLLO was born from lived experience, not just tech ambition.

One early indicator that we're on the right track is that the YOLLO is lit with live real-life moments and real conversations of friends, which you will not find on any other platform.

Join YOLLO’s mission!

The team continues to grow with diverse talent from around the world. If you are interested in joining YOLLO fam, email us at hello@yolloverse.com.