
If meme stocks can be a thing, what’s to stop audio meme sharing from going viral!? Hoping to storm the ear-bending arena of social audio and win friends amid the gamer/creator crowd is Voicy - a Netherlands-based startup that’s building a platform for user-generated audio snippets (typically a few seconds long), offering tools to create emotive samples for reaction sharing to spice up your messaging/streams. It’s not hard to predict where this idea goes: Straight to gross out fart sfx and pwning troll clips - which are indeed plentiful on this fledgling platform for user-generated (or, well, sampled) audio. Borat clips, for example, or Squid Game sounds. Plus a cacophony of over-enthusiastic Internet memes in audio form. John Oliver screaming “GOOGLE IT!” repeatedly, or Epic Sax Guy’s epic saxing, and so on. 61 views, 2 likes, 0 loves, 7 comments, 0 shares, Facebook Watch Videos from Springdale Presbyterian Church: We hope you enjoy todays worship. The typical Voicy user is, unsurprisingly, young and trigger happy, per the startup - which envisages gamer voice chat as a key target for a pipelines of social integrations it hopes to build out. So far it has one integration inked with messaging app, Viber - but it’s offering a “simple universal API” to encourage other platforms to sign up. Zooming out, Voicy’s stated mission is to do for sound clips what Giphy has done for GIFs. “As we’ve seen with memes and GIFs, people love to create their own very creative content. Check out photos and stories from The Citizens Voice archives. Audio has the capacity to have the same, if not bigger impact on modern communications. WILKES-BARRE Josh Shapiro says it’s time for Pennsylvania voters to send a wake-up call to Harrisburg.
