Bitstrips, in the past few weeks, has become a wildly popular app for Facebook, but many have grown tired of it already and are looking for a way to block it from their timeline.
Some 11 million people have downloaded the app for iPhone, Android, and other platforms in recent weeks. It was originally released in December but has recently experienced a surge in popularity.
The app allows users to make personalized cartoons with an avatar in reference to real-life situations, such as inside jokes.
Some users are using the app as the main way to update friends on their activities or how they are feeling.
“It’s a new way to express yourself and interact with your friends. Instead of posting the same things as everyone else, you can create something that relates to your life,” Bitstrips CEO Jacob Blackstock told the Baltimore Sun in April.
But not everyone is so happy with it. A quick search for Bitstrips on Twitter, shows “Bitstrips annoying” as a top term associated with the app.
“The inventor of ‘Bitstrips’ needs to be immediately incinerated,” one user wrote on Twitter.
Another added: “Bitstrips were cool for like 5 minutes so can we stop now k ~.”
Like Farmville or many of the other Facebook apps available, Bitstrips is relatively easy to remove.
To do it, find one of the Bitstrips posts and click on the arrow icon in the top right corner and select “Hide All From Bitstrips.”
According to BuzzFeed, one can block Bitstrips another way.
Go to the gear icon on the top right, click on the Account Settings, access Manage Blocking, and scroll down to the Apps section, and select Bitstrips.
