This has given rise to new forms of peer pressure and cultural gatekeeping. Invitations to multiplayer games are impossible without identical installations. Reactions to a viral TikTok audio clip depend on having the app installed and updated. Even news consumption: to read a breaking story behind a paywall, one must install the newspaper’s app or enable notifications. Installation, therefore, is a marker of in-group status. The teenager with the latest game installed is connected; the grandparent struggling to install Zoom for a family call is peripheral. Popular media platforms know this and design their installation flows to encourage virality—for example, by offering rewards for inviting friends or by making installation frictionless via deep links and QR codes.
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