The Instagram account suggests using the app to “Find your vybe. Local wine nights, beer games and dancing at an apartment near you.” The slogan of the app is “Make yourself rebel. Make the party.”
Vybe Together had a now-deleted FAQ page that suggested it supported small, not large, meetings, The Verge reported.
“We are aware that Covid is a major health issue for the country, our communities, our friends and family,” the FAQ page said. “If we could all be isolated, that could go away. Having large-scale parties is very dangerous. That’s why we don’t support it. But Vybe is a compromise, there are no big parties, but small meetings. We could be living, at least for a while. these times with Vybe “.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advises against holding even smaller social gatherings that bring people from different households together because of the risk of Covid-19 spreading.
“The more people interact with a person in a meeting and the harder that interaction is, the greater the potential risk of becoming infected with the spread of Covid-19 and Covid-19,” the CDC said in its guidelines. Many local governments have also issued guidelines banning meetings.
“Some terrible people built an entire app to find and promote big indoor parties that aren’t safe for Covid and are using TikTok to market it to millions of people,” he tweeted. “They’re currently in the midst of promoting furious secrets from New York to New York.”
Lorenz identified a co-founder of Vybe Together and included the person’s LinkedIn profile page. This page has been offline since Wednesday morning.