“And maybe, just maybe, I’ll swipe right for a change. Just because.”— Abigail Carter, psiloveyou.xyz
“I have always been an extroverted introvert, a contradicting duality I often attribute to being a Gemini, which makes connecting with people difficult.”— Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya, autostraddle.com
“If Lesbian TikTok were its own world, it could be broken down into many countries with their own national anthems — songs played over and over in users’ videos. There are the cottagecore girls (anthem: Mitski’s 'Strawberry Blonde' or anything by Hozier), the couples (anthem: Girl in Red’s 'We Fell i…”— Lena Wilson, nytimes.com
“Dress nicely. If you’d wear it to Disney World in July it’s probably not first date material.”— Sophia Benoit, gq.com
“It turns out, though, I’m far from the only woman to have been kicked off the app for no other reason than I rejected the wrong guy. Indeed, without the need for any apparent proof of wrongdoing, a new breed of scorned men have stumbled upon a particularly passive-aggressive way to say, 'If I can’t…”— Lauren Vinopal , melmagazine.com
“Tinder doesn't really have shit on our moms.”— Ryan Welch, Ari Katcher, Ramy Youssef, Ramy, Ramy Youssef, imdb.com
“It’s a slot machine pass that you always win: Put in a bit of time and a few swipes, crank the lever, and out comes a parade of choices of people who might call you pretty and say they want to buy you a drink.”— Dana Schwartz, amazon.com
“It’s time to say goodbye to grand gestures. The grandest gesture these days is swiping right.”— Carly Stone, Blake Conway, Jessica Barden, imdb.com
“There’s a simplicity that comes with messaging someone without worrying where things might lead. In an increasingly opaque and complex dating landscape, it’s refreshing to have that person in your contact list who expects nothing from you but will always respond to a late night 'WYD?' text.”— Katie Bishop, manrepeller.com
“The pleasure of the crush is in how it starts, the uncertainty of it. A crush is a challenge—and a terrifying risk.”— Dana Schwartz, glamour.com
“Tinder and Bumble are desperate to convince you that you’re not desperate. Dating, they promise, is fun, so fun, that when one date ends badly, it’s a barely disguised blessing: You get to stay on the apps and keep on dating!”— Jonah Engel Bromwich, nytimes.com
“But Andrew’s quest for Tinder lols isn’t over. He’s moved on to his next character, and this one’s even less concerned with love. He just wants to sell your town a monorail.”— Mic Wright, melmagazine.com
“What’s more, is Tinder causing us to skip that vital step where we gauge compatibility in a partner? If we’re all performing, how do we know if the person on the other side is right for us?”— Cooper Fleishman, melmagazine.com
“A good Tinder bio is simple: Introduce yourself, add a sentence or two about what you’re looking for, and wrap it all up with the emoji of your choice.”— Sophie Saint Thomas, gq.com
“INTP: If you can pull me away from my philosophy books and scientific theories, I’m a pretty low-key date.”— Jenna Birch, manrepeller.com
“With the rise of the swipe generation, dating has evolved into a game that we are most likely to quit playing before it could even begin.”— Francesca Escarraga, thoughtcatalog.com
“I've been deleting and reactivating Tinder for six years. You know you've had a dating app for too long when you start noticing people's personal growth. When you're swiping through like 'oh cool, Freddie420 went to grad school after all.'”— Dina Hashem, facebook.com
“So thank you, men. In submitting my body to surgeries and drugs, it was hard to think of myself as a normal person, much less as desirable.”— Rachel Moscovich, medium.com
“Tinder isn’t meeting people. Tinder is 70 percent (a made-up stat) deciding if strangers are hot enough to risk getting murdered, 29 percent typing “hey,” and maybe 1 percent “meeting people."”— Sophia Benoit, gq.com