The Day After: Snapchat+ is a $4-per-month subscription service for its most loyal users.

Snap’s on-demand subscription service is here, offering “exclusive, experimental, and pre-release features” for $4 a month. It’s apparently for “passionate” Snapchat users and was released this week in the US, Canada, UK, France, Germany, Australia, New Zealand, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates.

Exclusive features like changing the app icon, seeing who rewatched a story, and pinning a friend to the top of your chat history as a BFF are initially modest. Some of these features, such as BFF, will only be available to subscribers, but others may eventually move to the main Snapchat app for muggles – AKA most of us.

— Matt Smith

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And it looks just as silly.

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