Why Gen Z Is Ditching Dating Apps
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It is enshittification and it’s how they make money. But my point is that fixing enshittification doesn’t fix daring apps in the long term.
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This brings up an interesting point because my first thought when I read "inundated with sexualized media their whole lives," my first thought was, "In this Puritan culture?!" On the one hand, ads are all about using sex to sell products, while on the other, advertisers want nothing to do with anything that isn't 'kid friendly' content. You just need to look at how sanitized the internet has become by corporations to see that at work.
But I think there's something to be said there, and I think it goes deeper than just "the kids these days live in a Godless society of homosexual perverts" or whatever. I think the normalization of sex and availability of information about sex and sexuality has probably influenced it. I'd also say that the current state of the world and the stress of daily life have as much of an influence on this as the amount of sexualized media in their everyday lives. It's been a noticeable thing with Milennials having less sex and fewer kids from stress, both financial and otherwise, and I see no reason that wouldn't continue to trickle down to other generations. And even the amount of media out there, regardless of type, has just as much of an effect. If you have books to read and movies to watch, you're less likely to pop out kids accidentally because you were bored and got frisky.
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Very true. I was just saying that you can also blame enshittification for it going down like it has as well. Burning the candle at both ends and all that.
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And loot boxes too.
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because every dating app is 70% males, 25% trolls, 4% female chatbots, 0.5% female chatbots, 0.4% trans, 0.1% females. and every message to your match costs $10
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Literal dating resumes.
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That overwhelming male engagement is why Grindr has been so much fun on the whole.
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Surprise mechanics?
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dis mf said females
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"Our youth love luxury. They have bad manners and despise authority. They show disrespect for their elders and love to chatter instead of exercise. Young people are now tyrants, not the servants of their household. They no longer rise when their elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up food and terrorize their teachers.” -Socrates ~400BC
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I mean, yes, sex is often free but if one gender is willing to pay significantly more it seems like a pretty reasonable indicator that one gender values/desires sex more.
I dunno, just seems like you are very much determined that something is true with zero evidence. Some people have religion, you have this belief. Except with religion, there's not reams of physical evidence you've decided to disregard because you dislike the conclusions they represent.
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Possibly to differentiate from the trans women, who were mentioned immediately prior?
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Homie idk how many times I gotta say it. I'm agnostic to who's more horny. I get why I seem stubborn.
You can believe what you want. Your evidence is too indirect to convince me.
I really think we're arguing slightly different things though. Like it is even important for me say wealth inequality in the world means that sex spending better represents rich countries interests? Therefore has a very very large cultural bias. Not abstact, real cultures are different. Lots of people are unaccounted in your metric, and lots of peope are extremely over counted.
I can be convinced, you just haven't done it. I am not confident the data is out there. Spending definitely has too many flaws to be a good indicator.
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At least he kept it consistent with males
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I figure it's just as valid to be attracted to females vs. males (or any other option) as it's valid to be attracted to women vs. men (or any other option).
It's when you say "men blah blah blah and females blah blah blah" that you obviously think of the latter as unequal, and almost certainly lesser.
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Nah fucking is even more fun without a future
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Trans females!
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There's a pun in there to be had...
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Because they don't work. I used them for nearly 20 years before giving up. I'm a solid 8/10, yet no one ever messaged me, and no one ever replied to my messages in all those years. Not a single person.
The only way to find love is by going out and meeting people. Met someone at work back in 2018 and now I'm happily married.
