On a Friday night a few months ago, I was on a FaceTime call with some friends, other seniors in high school. We were hanging out in our rooms, scrolling through Snapchat, when a friend of mine mentioned a girl he knew from one of our sister schools. He wanted …
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A couple of months ago, Brianna, a 22-year-old who lives in Milwaukee, downloaded the Tea app. It was created to provide a space for feedback on potential dates for other women, and she understood that it was almost akin to Yelp, except that instead of rating businesses or restaurants, users …
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By the time Love Island USA concluded on Sunday, millions of viewers who tuned in this summer felt defeated. Countless posts that flooded everyone’s timelines on X were exhausted, delirious, and even angry. Let’s state the obvious: the seventh season of the show was an absolute mess. The four remaining …
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In October 2023, after two years of no dating — preoccupied caring for her sick parents and recovering from a difficult break-up — Shirley Williams, 39, implemented a new strategy to find her husband. First, she’d complete self-evaluation exercises, where she’d discover her flirting style and humor type, but also …
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After Whitney Wolfe Herd, a vice president of Tinder, left the company in 2014, she founded Bumble as a women-focused alternative to the popular dating app. With an interface that required its female users to send the first message to their matches — in theory cutting down on spammy or …
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There’s something comforting about watching Jennie Young’s TikToks. It may have to do with the calm assurance of her voice: it feels like you’re meeting during private office hours. Except, instead of the essay that’s due next week, you’re talking about the challenges of finding your soulmate on Hinge. A …
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Online dating can be a minefield. Your feelings can get hurt. Your confidence can be shaken. Your time can be wasted. And you can wander into a maelstrom of murder, arson, and identity theft that leaves you questioning your previously established reality. This is the point at which a situation …
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“Anyone who knows me and my long-term boyfriend know we meet a lot of our friends online these days,” Ashley Gill says in a Dec. 21 video, showing a photo of her and her friend and collaborator, Grant Gibbs, taking a sultry selfie with Pluto. She’s wearing a T-shirt emblazoned …
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On Thursday, OG Bravo fans finally got to tune in to the premiere of the highly anticipated The Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip: RHONY Legacy, reuniting original cast members from The Real Housewives of New York City on camera for the first time in years. Luann de Lesseps, Sonja Morgan, …
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Gerry Turner, the first-ever Golden Bachelor, shocked fans during the show’s finale on Thursday night when he went off script and didn’t go through with the typical proposal process. Instead of letting both Leslie Fhima and Theresa Nist show up to the proposal day dressed to the nines, asking one …
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