By Laura Waxmann, Mission Local
The minds behind an app to track and flag homeless encampments in San Francisco that has been attracting the ire of Twitter users who say that the app does not exist and was in fact intended as a commentary on tech culture. SnapCamp’s purported premise was “cleaning up” San Francisco’s communities by encouraging its residents to take pictures of homeless encampments and noting “problem areas” at a safe distance.
“SnapCamp is art,” wrote one of the website’s creators in an email to Mission Local, declining to identify themselves due to the “rancor” that the project has inspired. The project serves as a satire of tech culture, according to the anonymous emailer, who is a self-described owner of a small software company and “deeply embedded” in tech.
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