VERO is one of those apps that gets it. It’s #insta without the crap from Zuckerburger. No advertising and promoted shit and data-mining you didn’t ask for (or so they say). It’s awesome! Were it not for the fact that its founder, one Ayman Hariri, is a billionaire businessman of French-Lebanese origin with ties to Saudi Oger, one of Saudi Arabia’s largest construction companies, primarily known for not paying their migrant workers. If the name Hariri seems familiar, its likely because Aymen is the son of Rafic Hariri, the former prime-minister of Lebanon who was involved in some high profile corruption scandals while in office. In February of 2005, Rafic was assassinated in Beirut when explosives equivalent to around 1,800 kilograms of TNT concealed inside a parked vehicle were detonated as his motorcade drove past. 23 people died in the blast.
So you know, VERO has good pedigree! Needless to say, I am on VERO.
For the most part it’s just a nice way of not bothering my Instagram folks with all the insane card stuff. Only my playing card stillfies (still lifes for the Zoomer age) are on VERO. Look for the pseudonym Jay Zondervan. One of my latest concoctions is a pic of a very cool deck of cards by #ellusionist. It’s called Pioneers. It was designed to resemble a pack of souvenir cards from the Chicago World Fair of 18 hundred something.