Copy pasting the first part of this so lazy girlies don't have to experience the stress of !clinklickers

As the sheen on dating apps dulls, more Americans are reporting bad experiences on them. Frustrated by bots, subscription costs and high effort-to-reward ratios, Gen Z is fleeing the apps in hope of real-life meet-cutes. Earlier this year, “Bustle” declared that dating apps are in their “flop era.”

Not all of the apps are taking this backlash without a fight. On Tuesday, after months of internal shake-ups and stock market woes, Bumble took a shot at winning back hearts and minds with a redesign, which includes a break with the app's requirement that women make the first move.

A new feature, which the company has called “Opening Moves,” allows women to place on their profiles a question, like “What is your dream vacation?,” to which men who match can respond. (In nonbinary and same-gender matches, both sides can include these prompts.)

The shift is a major one for Bumble. Until now, a man who matched with a woman on the app had to wait for her to message him. If she did not initiate a conversation, the match would expire after 24 hours.

Whitney Wolfe Herd founded Bumble in 2014 because of her own personal experiences. She said that the idea was to give women more control. “I had a series of bad relationships, and I felt I was controlled by a man,” she added, “whether it was: Don't wear this or, You can't hang out with this person or, You need to be home at this time.”

But over the years, Bumble received feedback from women who found that making the first move was “a lot of work” or “a burden,” and Ms. Wolfe Herd began thinking about how to release the pressure. Opening Moves, she said, is a result of that process, a way to let women maintain control while not feeling the stress of initiating all of the conversations.

But not copying the whole thing because The Gray Lady be a notoriously litigious b-word.

Ever since this stupid bear question started spreading like wild fire I can't go 5 minutes without foids mentioning it. The boss asked us all where we wanted to go for lunch, and of course all the foids started murmuring and thinking out loud as if they were just asked a deep philisophical question. Finally I spoke up and said "OMG will you whores just pick something?! " One of them propped up immediately and said "I choose the bear! " and all the other foids started cackling like hyenas as if they has just heard the funniest joke in their entire lives. Then they just started egging each other on with more dumb puns and jokes, "omg that joke was UNBEARABLE ", "please just BEAR with me , and then one yelled "MADE FOR BBC " and we all stopped and looked at her for a moment , and then she clarified "BIG BEAR PEEPEE " and all the foids started hollering like monkeys again, some falling out of their chairs and banging tables. Finally I spoke up again, "will you r-slurred bitches stop laughing, it's not even funny and the bear question is stupid. If you feel so unsafe all the time why don't you just buy a gun?? " As soon as I asked them that another stupid foid spoke up "He's right we have the right to BEAR arms! " she yelled and they all started laughing again so loud all the guys were covering their ears.

This is getting way out of hands bros. What tf do we do?

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Beautytok is all up in the shit right now and it's actually kind of funny so ima tell you all about it!

A few months ago a new makeup brand called Youthforia caught some flak from black beauty creators because their foundation shade range was basically non-existent for black people, and that's not allowed unless you're a Korean or Japanese brand (for obvious reasons). The owner of the brand (who is asian but is American and Youthforia is an American brand) actually came out and tried to defend their shade range by UNIRONICALLY saying it was a SOCIAL EXPERIMENT and was met with even more criticism because we all aren't fricking BLIND and that's STUPID. AND all of the shades on the box were NOT the shades that you get in the bottle so darker shades were actually even lighter than advertised which only made people more upset.

SO to appease the masses Youthforia expanded their shade range and introduced like 5 new shades for darker skintoned people and now everyone wants to burn down their HQ.

IT'S FRICKING SHOE POLISH BLACK. This shade is a literal asian-on-black hate crime and everyone is soooooper mad because it's LITERALLY black face paint. The shade is being compared to minstrel makeup and now Youthforia is sooper raycist.

Like you know if Time fricking magazine orders a rush job article about your debacle you done fricked up good.

Anyhoo tiktok is all abuzz with their pitchforks and you can pick pretty much any video about it and watch jaqqoffs slaughter each other in the comments with whataboutism and "muh cousin's neighbor is black like a tire and would love this!"

It's great.

There were no memes about this. I never once encountered someone discussing the skin color or intellect of Erudites they were simply another race to pick from especially if you wanted to cap your INT stat.

This was 1999 and for the next decade remained immune to whatever racial dialogue was going on outside the world of gaming. We were just nerds having fun in the best MMORPG ever created.

!nonchuds what happened to the internet since then?

Enjoy this banger login music from back in the day.

!coomers the box art for these games was .

Her name is Firiona Vie.

I mean it's weird to say but I have more fun on this site than anywhere else and it's mostly just schizos laughing at r-slurs. I feel like life shouldn't be this boring. I'm sure I'd like a family and get bored of them eventually. I don't really relate to anyone. My worst problem is I always have problems sleeping. Other than that I just wait for the next happening, whatever it may bring. Such is life.

an absolutely adorable video tbh

orange site: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40235114

i have lived in exclusively red counties my entire life

alaska is not as red as i would expect

also lol @ wisconsin

"Normal"

https://old.reddit.com/r/fantasyromance/comments/1cigfvt/its_thirsty_thursday_what_spicy_book_scenes_did/?sort=controversial

"Healthy"

https://old.reddit.com/r/fantasyromance/comments/1ci0x5v/spiciest_spicy_spice_with_compelling_plots_please/?sort=controversial

!foidmoment

This comic is weak and obvious overall, but I love the simple joy on the bear's face.

This is the Edgar (with a hard R). Mexican TikTok addicts love it and pretty much every criminal in San Antonio California does too (because they're all 14 year old mexicans). Antoniocels have started to notice this, and make comments on it in every post, so naturally, jannies have decided that dropping the hard R is racist and remove every comment using this disgusting slur. Por ejemplo:

HE DOESN'T EVEN GO HERE

https://old.reddit.com/r/sanantonio/comments/1ci1lwa/teen_killed_at_market_square_fiesta_event_was_out/?sort=controversial

More removed comments:

https://old.reddit.com/r/sanantonio/comments/1ci4q41/private_sale_gone_wrong/?sort=controversial

And now Antoniocels have started rioting:

https://old.reddit.com/r/sanantonio/comments/1cil980/the_mods_removed_my_crosspost_for_a_bogus_reason/?sort=controversial

They're calling jannies gringo pandejos too:

And it's completely true, they are a bunch of gringos:

They've decided that it's time for jannycide:

https://old.reddit.com/r/sanantonio/comments/1cihhff/with_all_the_infighting_between_mods_and_folks_we/?sort=controversial