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How to star in your OWN episode of Black Mirror: The Netflix tool turns your selfies into posters for parody streaming service ‘Streamberry’ – here’s how you can try it yourself
- Black Mirror season 6 has an episode based on streaming platform Streamberry
- Netflix has launched a new tool that turns your selfies into Streamberry posters
After months of anticipation, season six of Black Mirror finally arrived on Netflix this week.
In the first episode of the dystopian series, titled ‘Joan Is Awful’, a woman discovers that a global streaming platform called Streamberry has launched a TV drama adaptation of her life.
Streamberry is very similar to Netflix, and now it seems the streaming giant is embracing the similarity with the launch of a new tool called “You Are Awful.”
The tool turns your selfies into posters for your own episode of Black Mirror – with hilarious results.
Here’s how you can use the new tool to create your own poster.
Streamberry is very similar to Netflix, and now it seems the streaming giant is embracing the similarity with the launch of a new tool called ‘You Are Awful’
The tool turns your selfies into a poster for your own episode of Black Mirror – with hilarious results
To celebrate the launch of season six of Black Mirror, Netflix has changed its name on Twitter to Streamberry UK & Ireland.
The account tweeted a link to the new tool this morning, writing, “Join the Streamberry family today! #You are terrible.’
Visit the Streamberry site to try it for yourself herewhere you are prompted to enter your first name.
It’s worth noting that words considered rude are starred, which meant my name appeared as S***ali on my poster.
Click Continue and you will be prompted to take or upload a photo for your poster.
‘Agree [name], take or upload a photo of yourself. You might even end up on a billboard!’ it says.
Once you’ve uploaded your photo, you can adjust it using the arrows on the left, or zoom in and out by clicking the magnifying glass icon.
At this stage, you must also agree to Netflix’s use of your image for its marketing campaign, as well as the terms and conditions.
In the first episode of the dystopian series, titled ‘Joan Is Awful’, a woman discovers that a global streaming platform called Streamberry has launched a TV drama adaptation of her life
Finally, click Continue and you will see your face at the top of a fake Streamberry site, with the option to download your poster.
This isn’t the first time a movie poster generator has been released in the past week.
To celebrate the release of new posters for the Barbie movie, Warner Bros Entertainment recently released a free tool called the Barbie Selfie Generator.
“Welcome to Barbieland, where you can be Barbie (or Ken),” the tool’s landing page reads. Click below to become an instant icon!