Why did IRL shut down?

Ironically, the social app IRL ‘s users do not exist in real life. An internal investigation by IRL’s board of directors found that 95% of the app’s reported 20 million users were “automated or from bots,” The Information first reported. So, after raising more than $200 million in venture capital, IRL is shutting down.

How many users does IRL have?

CEO Abraham Shafi stated, “Our primary goal at IRL has always been to create more authentic and organic communities.” Just how authentic those communities were came into question last year when employees cast doubt on Shafi’s claims that the app had 20 million monthly active users.

Is IRL a fake website?

With a killer domain name in IRL.com and a pivot to also focusing on online event discovery, IRL eventually grew to 20 million users, according to its founder Abraham Shafi, raising more than $200 million in VC funding. One problem: It appears that the vast majority of those 20 million users are fake.