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hello again ladies and gentlemen I'm Joe handy the Android authority app guide a lot of apps made a big splash in 2014 but not all those splashes were good so let's take a look at the most controversial applications of 2014 first up on our list is a duck hunter knockoff called ass hunter and this was a pretty messed up game he played as a hunter who shot naked men and if the naked men approached you and you didn't shoot them they had gay sex with you it was reported that the app description contains such phrases as play and do not be gay and you are a hunter and your mission is to kill gays as much as you can that should give you a pretty clear indication on why this game made people angry there was a successful Twitter campaign to have the game flagged for inappropriate content and eventually it was rightfully removed from the Google Play Store Facebook made the decision this year to totally remove their messenger and group's services from the main Facebook application and force people to use external applications for each one this made a lot of people angry and has widely been considered as a bad move on top of using extra storage space users also now have multiple accounts constantly waking up their devices causing battery drain and pinging their data plans ostensibly this was so Facebook could build more features into those services but so far the best we've gotten are similar to what one-night stands gets which are large gaudy stickers and regret then when things can get any worse Facebook did it again with their new Facebook groups app problem cast was an application that people actually liked it allowed people with amazon prime memberships to stream content from their Amazon Instant Video account to their televisions by casting it through the chromecast and was the only app that allowed this functionality Amazon was all like lol nope and then had the application pulled on top of that they changed their back-end so the people who still had copies of the application could no longer use it it was a great app that met a sudden end and is a sterling example of what happens when a powerhouse like Amazon wants your app dead secret is another anonymous platform where people can post secrets about themselves and other people and you can see where this is going things have gone so far with secret that has been banned in Israel because people are using it for cyberbullying and also in Brazil for similar reasons it's also been used to post faulty secrets such as fake device leaks and other fallacious content like yak yak secret is still available in the Google Play Store sketch factor is actually a really good idea for an application the premise was to alert people as to what parts of various cities are dangerous weird or shady and which part should be avoided unfortunately the application is crowd-sourced instead of fact sourced and that has led to some problems on top of users not generally taking the platform seriously there have been widespread accusations that people who post on the application are totally racist and some have even said that the app is for white people trying to avoid black neighborhoods the creators swear up and down that neither of these things are true unfortunately for them the internet does exist in its current form and many parts of it have dubbed their application racist it is still available in the Google Play Store if you want to see it for yourself the guinea pix is an application that takes your selfies and edits them to make you look like you've lost weight the options are pretty simple you can have the application subtract five ten and fifteen pounds and result is a selfie that makes you look thinner it's promoted as an application to help you feel better about your looks but it's been pointed out several times that you can't possibly feel good about your looks if you feel the need to alter them it also doesn't help that the algorithms are pretty bad and make healthy-looking people look gaunt tired and starving to death whether it's making skinny people look dead or making chubby people feel bad that their chubby this application seems to strike out on almost every demographic oh and don't forget that you have to pay for it also if you want to check it out for yourself it's in the Google Play Store it's true that uber wasn't released this year but it's driven enough controversy to earn a spot on this list ok so where do I begin with this one the app has been banned in Nevada and his spark talks about banning it in other cities there has also been a back-and-forth smear campaign between uber and lyft it's lasted all year then the CEO decided to spend 1 million dollars to dig up dirt on shady journalists who blast uber in the media and even got an endorsement for the behavior from Ashton Kutcher who is most notably not a journalist than to top it all off their controversial search charging has plummeted ubers Better Business Bureau rating to an F it's been a really rough year for uber flourish shield made headlines earlier this year when it took the coveted top spot as the number one new paid application in the Google Play Store the feat was impressive especially considering that the application does absolutely nothing if you did download the application you would have been treated to two screens there was one with an X on it and another one with a check mark and you could go from one to the other by tapping on the screen unfortunately the wheels were spinning but no one was behind the wheel and the app did nothing else other than changed graphics the developers stated that the release was accidental but the damage had been done in any case the app is no longer available in the Google Play Store and a lot of people got refunds young jack is a little-known application that's already causing some serious problems the application itself is an anonymous and local message board that is kind of like a small-time secret the idea was that people would share community news tell jokes and have fun with other people in their general location unfortunately we are humans and not all of us are good people thus the service began being used as a cyber bullying and rumor mill platform it's been called a dangerous application by at least one psychiatrist and a couple of Philadelphia students even use the application to announce a school shooting while another used it to post a bomb threat despite the issues the application does remain available in the Google Play Store if you want in you isn't really controversial but it is a curious case the premise that the application is ridiculously simple it's a messaging platform that says only one word and that word is yo the idea is for users to assign meaning to the word and then when they receive a message they know that something happened for instance a sports team PR may send out a yo whenever their team scores Motorolla even used it recently to host a contest the thing most don't understand is why this application is so popular and why so many investors have dumped money into it yo was developed in one day and it's already earned tens of millions of dollars in financing oh and let's not forget the huge security problem that I had when it first started out it's an anomaly and it's really interesting once again i'm joe hindi the android authority app guy we're here why not subscribe to the android Authority YouTube channel if you're hanging out for a minute we have a couple of awesome videos for you to watch right over there and they're also linked in the video description below for you folks on mobile finally don't forget to check out the written companion which is in the video description below as always thanks for watching everybody and have a wonderful day