‘You 4’: Is there an app for disappearing messages that appears in the series?

It’s only February, but Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley) is already experiencing the worst vacation of his 2023. At the end of the third season of ‘You’, we saw him walking the streets of Paris enjoying his rest in Europe, after blowing up the homicidal mother of her son; of having abandoned his offspring at the door of a beautiful couple, Dante and Lansing; and, more importantly, of having wiped himself off the map.

Flying across the pond, Joe already had a new identity and purpose for his life: make Marienne Bellamy (Grandpa Gabrielle) went from being “terrified of her psychotic past” to “madly in love with her new self”. Instead, he found himself right where he’d started, with no idea what to do.

In season four, Goldberg assumes the identity of Jonathan Moore, a literature professor at London’s Darcy College, who finds a murdered body (which he has no recollection of assaulting), after a night out partying with the city’s insufferable elite. . The man is none other than his insufferable “profession” colleague, Malcolm Harding, whose house turns out to be right across from Joe’s. His maniacal tendencies, from which he tried to escape by crossing to another continent, do not seem to have taken long to reappear since, as soon as he found the body, he begins to get rid of him by becoming the main suspect in his death.

Joe/Jonathan will put on his detective outfit and try to find out who murdered Malcolm. Besides, he will meet his most formidable adversary since Love Quinn and his refined ability to draw knives: an app.

What is the ‘Evanesce’ app?

After 3 seasons always being one step ahead (and, of course, at a safe distance behind, classic for onlookers), our kind and “romantic” neighbor He has found his match. After being summoned to an intimate dinner with Malcolm’s obnoxious friends, Joe receives a message on his phone from someone unknown, through an app (which he doesn’t remember downloading). In this app, messages disappear after being read and come from unidentified users, making its location impossible. At the end of the first episode of the season, Malcolm’s killer uses this app to announce to Joe that he plans to make him take the fall (pun intended). Beyond surprising Joe, this reveals a new side to his personality.

We have seen Joe fight with the shock to cover up a murder of Love and we have also seen him build his glass cage to lock up his love conquests. Joe always had a plan for everything. Evanesce has made this old dog have to pull the chestnuts out of the fire again. Your investigative strategies through Google, Facebook and Twitter are not going to work this time. Now, You will have to deduce who is responsible by analyzing his sarcastic responses and his obsession with Joe’s killer instinct.. Ultimately, it’s not until the killer unmasks himself that we can find out who he really is.

Is Evanesce a real app?

Evanesce is not real in name, but in function. Over the past decade, we’ve become more obsessed than ever with protecting our privacy at any cost. Almost all technology companies already offer messaging services that allow conversations to be encrypted. However, Evanesce’s ephemeral properties are more advanced than what Facebook or Google can offerbut not entirely impossible.

Apps like ‘Cover Me’, ‘Wickr’, ‘WhatsApp’, ‘Confide’ and ‘Snapchat’ allow different levels of “self-destruction” of your messages. In Whatsapp, messages can be set to disappear in 7 days; Snapchat messages can be saved with screenshots, but you can also set a timer to delete them. The only app that seems to come close to the virtues of Evanesce, in terms of design, immediacy of elimination and automatic timer is ‘confidence’. In this app, messages are deleted forever as they have been read. Your text is revealed line by lineJust like Evanescence. Screenshots are not possiblesince a black image is generated (as it happens with platforms like Netflix).

The fact that these types of apps exist in real life is not an excuse to cover up murders or stalk your ex. This just goes to show that, just like in ‘You’, there is a place for everything in this life.