【Farmer’s Wife: Handle with Care! Part 1: Angel Advent】

Snapchat may soon be Farmer’s Wife: Handle with Care! Part 1: Angel Adventintroducing a new way for it to make money — with a little help from some furry friends.

SEE ALSO: I'm starting to love Instagram Stories more than Snapchat because I'm incredibly thirsty

A tipster sent us a snap taken by Gabe Lehrman, a partnership associate at Snap, that shows a selfie of him surrounded by a bunch of virtual stickers. The stickers are of characters in Sanrio, including Hello Kitty and Badtz-Maru.

Text over the snap reads: "First partnered stickers alert!!"

Original image has been replaced. Credit: Mashable

Apparently Snapchat is testing more virtual stickers that aren't by their own design or copied from someone else's, as this story from The Ringerexposed.

It's unclear if it's an ad unit and money is changing hands in the process, but Snap could, for sure, use some more money after a disappointing first-ever earnings report this week.

Mashable Light Speed Want more out-of-this world tech, space and science stories? Sign up for Mashable's weekly Light Speed newsletter. By clicking Sign Me Up, you confirm you are 16+ and agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Thanks for signing up!

Snap declined to disclose whether the new sticker pack is a revenue source. They did say that the pack is a first partnership of its kind for Snap and that the stickers will be live for about a month. It includes 30 characters.

Snap also noted that Sanrio and Snapchat had an existing partnership. Sanrio has had two lenses, one for Hello Kitty and one for Little Twin Stars.

It wouldn't be surprising if that were the case in the future. Other messaging apps, including Line, make money from sponsored stickers. Facebook's Messenger has sticker packs, including one of Hello Kitty, but they are free.

Unfortunately for our tipster, she was blocked from viewing Lehrman's snaps shortly after sending us the snap, via Snapchat. It's unclear why he decided to block her, but the tipster got spooky feelings that Lehrman had enacted some sort of God mode to see his snap alongside the word "tip." Right now, average Snapchat users don't see when their public snaps are shared with someone else. This reporter also follows Lehrman on snap.

Curious. As Snap CEO Evan Spiegel told investors this week, they like to stay secretive of what's coming down the product pipeline: "I think at this point we're famous for not giving guidance on the product pipeline," Spiegel said. "Should be a fun rest of the year."

Stickers? Yeah, looks fun.

---

Featured Video For You

---

Mute the world around you with these ear plugs of the future

---

Topics Snapchat

• Digital Culture
• Entertainment
• Shopping
• Deals
• Tech
• Life
• Science
• Games

• Anker raises Amazon prices amid US tariffs
• Very tall footballer tweets very good holiday joke
• Someone is sending spyware after Mexican journalists and lawyers
• Tim Cook showed up to Trump's big tech meeting — but not Mark Zuckerberg
• Japan orders Google to stop alleged antitrust violations
• Elon Musk, world's 8th best CEO, shares how he spends his free time
• Kratos's son represents the humanity he lost in the 'God of War' games
• Hilarious mom makes hot new friends at her daughter's college orientation
• Ireland fines TikTok $600 million for sharing user data with China
• 'Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls' takes Kickstarter by storm—again

• 'The Marvels' did Aladna wrong
• A Memoir of Life at a Moving Company
• Roadside Memorials
• Literary Architecture by Sadie Stein
• New and Novel Uses for Paper
• Spotify Wrapped's mood descriptions are confusing the internet
• It’s Time to Formulate an Opinion on Rauschenberg (Everyone’s Doing It)
• The Brain? Still Full of Mystery, After All These Millennia
• Who But the Sun? For the Solstice, Baudelaire Salutes That Ball of Gas
• The watermelon emoji and Palestine, explained

• NYT Strands hints, answers for May 18
• This temperature
• Brutal heat wave roasts Southwest U.S. on first day of summer
• You can now make Spotify playlists in your group chat
• The fat bears are already extremely fat
• Nazi kids' toys found by Argentinian government in stash of artifacts
• Eerily beautiful bioluminescent algae looks super fun to splash through
• Video of the Summer Solstice sunrise at Stonehenge is breathtaking
• President Trump says semiconductor tariffs are next
• LeSportsac is the latest brand to stamp Nintendo characters on everything

• Better Buy: Previous
• Han Solo movie loses directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller
• Tesla Model S goes a record 560 miles on a single charge, Elon Musk is not impressed
• The iPhone 8's "final" design shown in phone case sales and renders
• Best Kindle Unlimited deal: Get 3 months of Kindle Unlimited for 99 cents
• Drake Bell is very upset he wasn't invited to Josh Peck's wedding
• Very tall footballer tweets very good holiday joke
• 6 reasons why the OnePlus 5 is the Android phone to get
• Google Pixel Buds Pro 2: $40 off at Amazon
• Finally, the world has heard Jared Kushner's voice