Carrot Fit App Download & Update: Sadistic iOS App Designed to 'Threaten, Intimidate and Ridicule' Fat People?
If intimidation gets you moving, this App is for you. The Carrot Fit App is designed to torture users into losing weight using threat, intimidation and ridicule in the process, according to Mail Online.
The self-proclaimed 'sadistic' App spews out statements like, "You are starting to affect the Earth's orbit around the sun," and "Get your flabby body moving, meatbag!" if it detects that the user has gained weight instead of losing some. On the other hand, it offers sarcastic praises when the user shows progress in his or her weight loss goal and says for example, "Look at you, meatbag. You could be a part-time model."
Developed by Brian Mueller, the Carrot Fit iOS app retails at $1.99, and is classified as a 'Talking Weight Tracker' that employs tough love to get users into shape, according to USA Today. Users must first input their weight, and then Carrot, the 'Fitness Overlord' will declare a harsh remark or a sarcastic praise, depending upon how fit or how unfit the user is. The app monitors the user's BMI, and tracks the weight loss with a graph that could be shared among friends.
The app description says, "Carrot is a sadistic AI construct with one simple goal: to transform your flabby carcass into a Grade A specimen of the human race. She will do whatever it takes - including threatening, inspiring, ridiculing, and bribing you - to make this happen. You will lose weight - or else," according to iVillage.
Mueller claims that the App aims to make 'weight loss entertaining and funny,' with an AI that gives snarky, smartass remarks to make fun of users and shame them into losing weight and getting fit. Mueller said that 'Carrot the Fitness Overlord' is primarily based on the characters of HAL 9000 in 2001: A Space Odyssey and GLaDOS in the Portal video game, but is also "a combination of my mom, my sister and my wife; We make fun of each other a lot," notes USA Today.
In an interview with Business Insider, Mueller noted the importance of distinct App characterization, saying that Carrot is "almost like this virtual pet you have to keep happy by getting stuff done in real life, and she has a story that gets revealed the more you use her."
Users who love to be challenged, especially by a snarky smartass AI, would surely love this App and will be giggling their way to fitness.
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