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. 
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No shit
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lol women type "hi" as an opener and even that's too much for them.
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No they type “hiiiiii”.
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"hi." = I hate you, please die.
"hi" = I hate you, but you can continue living as long as you do it somewhere else.
"hii" = I am reluctantly willing to speak with you, if I have to.
"hiii" = You seem okay, I am cautiously optimistic about this conversation.
"hiiiii" = Please respond because you're cute.
"hiiiiii" = I want to have your babies.
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This is why homo dating is better.
"Wanna suk diq @ Wendy?" = "Want to suck peepee behind the Wendy's dumpster?"
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Know your worth kings. Don't reply unless they actually put in an effort post style message.
Then delete the apps and go get fricking laid at the bar like a normal human being.
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The sum of i in sequence hi must be > or equal to 3 to respond to a foid, noted
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Hiiiii
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communism will win
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omg hi
@KONY_2022!!! okay so this is like super awkward omg but basically i had to remove ur comment bc u didnt say
communism will winlol. don't worry though, we like wont let you post anything that like doesnt havecommunism will winin it. anyways im like just a robot 😲 but if u want to talk 2 somebody you should do it here lolJump in the discussion.
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Yayyyy
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This is why I'm homo.
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TFW no uncle molests you as a young kid to spare you from the gussy menace
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My uncles are under 6 foot. I've got standards.
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This is really all they have to do. It's one extra step from matching with a guy on tinder. Then the ball is back in his court and the onus is him to not get ghosted. Absolute
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Had a foid just type "." once, minimum effort.
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I've had women write shit like "you have a pretty face", "I like your body" or "you look edible" along with the great conversation starter, just sending an emoji: 😍
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All of those openers suck, but I can see why a girl might think it was what moids want since they send that shit so often.
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Yeah, I kinda realize what type of shit women deal with from those.
Like, "you look edible", what the frick non-offensive thing am I supposed to say to that?
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Yeah, who the frick knows. She's already opening at like an 8 so you could try to match that energy, but it's tricky because you can so easily overshoot and weird her out...
Maybe-good:
"fancy a taste tomorrow night?"
"you know it girl, I'm sweet like chocolate."
Bad:
"I'd like to eat you, too. ;)"
"I want to be in your mouth"
I am actually sympathetic to guys on this. Women often expect men to read their mind and do/say exactly what she wants without being told.
It's nice to feel like he really understands me intuitively, but kind of unrealistic in most cases.
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It's literally counter to a woman's psychology, everyone who has touched grass knows that women seldom make an obvious first move. They can basically only signal they like a guy through social cues (eye contact, smiling).
Anyways dating apps peaked on 2018 and you're an r-slur if you haven't pivoted to meeting women in real life (not at bars either), your parents and grandparents literally met the same way with way less money and resources
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How does one do this? I'm not baiting I'm just neurodivergent. Like I see tons of cute girls at the gym but idk how to break the ice. Idk if I should also talk to guys at gyms so I come across as generally friendly instead of a creepy flirt
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Imagine thinking "hey" or "hi" is a hard burden to overcome. Jfc so trash.
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Also they could just switch to literally any other dating app lmao
Like why use bumble if you dont like the fundamental concept of it?
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Bumble is going out of business because the fundamental concept is so bad; their stock is down 89% since their IPO. Bumble is attempting to pivot to try and salvage anything. I expect their stock will be delisted sooner rather than later.
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I've set my dating intentions to "shitposting" and "farming sneed", and I need a scrote who believes in the cause of mayocide wholeheartedly.
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Holy shit a sarcastic poly feminist is my dream girl. Please please please let her be fat and stinky as well.
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All I want is a fat, single mother who has tattoo's and a bad attitude 🙏
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Have any of you guys been on a dating app lately? You'll swipe through 10 people with this description in like 30 seconds.
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Yea I was being sarcastic, them's easy pickings on dating apps
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erm you forgot independent chud, she don't need you
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Good
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Why stinky?
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That's called a redditor, they're like a dime a dozen. They're not on the dating apps, though.
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Can I have the option to auto-filter anyone who does either of these things?
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What about unethical nonmonogamy? This is homewreckermisia.
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Cause: kill all women (except maybe you)
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#hertoo
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This but unironically
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#herfirst
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Algo doesn't matter for women. My single female friends get the message "we have no one else to show you" because they fricking skip 99% of men in half a second
And my dumbass has to listen to them complain about how single they are
And we live in Houston, the 4th biggest city in the country. Imagine skipping through that many guys and thinking you're not the problem
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It's funny listen to my wife's friends complain about being single. The biggest cope is, "Men don't want an educated/successful woman." My wife just sits and nods along despite being more educated and successful than the majority of them.
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im going to assume they make you choose from a list of "pre approved" causes because we live in hightech woke heck. Hinge has a new feature where you can list no no words that if it pops in a profile they won't show the profile to you. I fricking love living in current year.
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Um, yes? Please tell me you're nonwhite so we can make nonwhite babies together Jimie haha just kiddingunless...
Current hyperfixation:
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If Tinder is so smart why does it keep presenting me Straight guys who don't even seem like the curious or downlow types?
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Maybe it knows better than they do? Like when the algo can tell your daughter is pregnant before she even takes a test?
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I wish. But I think I'm too hairy to appeal to those guys.
Unironically does it make me a 'pick-me' gay to want a bi dude? They're usually more chill and their relatively larger proximity from the mainstream queer community means my hobbies tend to vibe more with theirs on average.
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So you just want to play golf and blow dudes?
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...kinda? Is that bad.
We could also game and occassionally go to a bar.
And I like baking, so someone to eat my baked stuff.
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That's rad
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Well husband me up bro.
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Sounds like a fun Saturday
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Looking for braphogs
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Which traits do you value, and how many standard deviations above / below the mean of the associated Gaussian distribution will you accept?
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lmao this is so r-slurred
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pls sned bobs and vagene
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I will never understand how a dating app that has a gimmick of the woman making the initial move ever got off the ground…
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They still didn't put in any effort. In the brief time I tried Bumble most women would open with some variation of "hey"
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No shit, that's all 99% of everyone writes because 99% of people are either lazy or illiterate or both.
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hey
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Hey
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You get a pass.
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Yeah because putting effort into a blob of text to spit at someone is offputting. Saying hello before talking is naturally what people do.
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DaddyRizz over here.
"Hey! I noticed you like [thing], what's your favorite [thing]?"
See how easy it is to engage with someone on an opener, you fricking sperg?
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Hey there's a lot of creepy weirdos on this site who just want to have s*x with you, you better stick with me so I can show you the ropes.
Edit: bee tee dubs, the ropes I mentioned are my s*x ropes that I tie you up with. You're into this, right?
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I had a girl ask me, in vivid detail, to tie her up on the second date once. Kinda threw me off tbh, though I was younger then and now I'd probably just roll with it.
Current hyperfixation:
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Gross. If a girl does this it has desperate vibes and i think she's uglier than she is.
You actually killed the half chub i was rocking with this.
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Hey.
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It appeals to the men who are too kitty to make a move, and plays into their fantasy of a woman coming along and forcing her way into their lives.
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If I was single, it'd be the only app I'd use since it would set the tone for the relationship. She can pay all the bills even if she makes way less than me and I'll buy gizmos and stupid shit.
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Always worked for me
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You will never be a monk.
You have no tonsure. You aren't celibate.
You are a socially stunted man twisted by the interesting parts of the Bible into a crude mockery of monastic perfection.
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based
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It had height parameter before tinder
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I keep saying, the most effective dating app would be one where there are no likes or matches, but the catch is you're only allowed to message one new person per day. would be a far better way to accomplish what bumble was trying to do (stop women from being inundated with messages).
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... oddly specific archetypes
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Imagine if they did it IRL
Some do but they're usually fat
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