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In 2015, Weheartit launched a 'Heartist' program to award its top users. 'Heartists' are a selection of the most engaged We Heart It users every year, acknowledged as leaders in creativity known to inspire other members of the community. We Heart It awards each
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We Heart It was primarily a visual platform that supported still images and animated GIFs. In recent years, the platform had been updated to allow written posts, known as
Articles. It had also introduced a Podcasts feature that includes listenable audio episodes of various podcasts.
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network. We Heart It describes itself as "A home for your inspiration" and a place to "Organize and share the things you love." Users could collect (or "heart") their favorite images to share with friends and organize into collections. Users can access the site through We Heart It's
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you could react to the articles with 5 different options. If you did not want to heart an article, you had the choice to react to it still, while it not having to appear in your canvas. In 2018, reactions for images were added as well.
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when he was unable to get an invitation. We Heart It was based around the idea of "hearting" photos and saving them for sharing with friends. The product then began to grow organically.
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We Heart It lacked features for commenting or "dislikes". As a result, users posting content will not potentially receive negative comments as they might on other social networks.
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