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Pope Francis has seemingly co-signed the use of dating apps like Tinder, saying it’s a completely “normal” option to meet potential partners. The 86-year-old pontiff explained his position in a newly released Hulu documentary titled The Pope: Answers. As its title suggests, the film features Francis taking questions from 10 Spanish-speaking adults, who were between the ages of 20-25. The […]
The Tax Heaven 3000 era will soon be upon us. The project, the latest commentary-as-art drop from MSCHF, launches via this site on April 4 at 2:00 p.m. ET and is described by its makers as “a visual novel dating game” that doubles as a way to prep an income tax return. The experience is […]
A Catholic nonprofit reportedly dropped millions of dollars on a digital gay witch hunt. According to an in-depth Washington Post piece, the Denver-based group Catholic Laity and Clergy for Renewal spent $4 million to identify priests who were using dating and hookup apps popular among gay and bisexual men. The organization claimed it used the money to purchase […]
A 30-year-old in Washington said a woman he met on a dating app took him hostage and robbed him at gunpoint with an accomplice. As the Pierce County Sheriff’s Department shared in a press release, the unidentified man informed deputies he traveled to meet the woman, who described herself as a similar age to him, after connecting on Plenty of […]
Tinder announced that Shimon Hayut, subject of the Netflix documentary The Tinder Swindler, has been banned from the dating app following an investigation, Variety reports. “We have conducted internal investigations and can confirm Simon Leviev is no longer active on Tinder under any of his known aliases,” Tinder said in a statement. The Tinder Swindler […]
ComplexCon returns to Long Beach Nov. 6 – 7 with hosts J. Balvin and Kristen Noel Crawley, performances by A$AP Rocky and Turnstile, and more shopping and drops. Secure your spot while tickets last! Buy tickets Convicted serial killer Khalil Wheeler-Weaver will spend the rest of his life behind bars. According to the Associated Press, […]
Lox Club—a dating app that considers itself “culturally Jewish”—received a hefty investment from two of hip-hop’s young stars. Both Lil Yachty and Bhad Bhabie are joining forces with agent Adam Kluger’s Scoop Investments to donate $1 million to the app, which is geared toward Jewish people with “ridiculously high standards,” Variety reports. “The team prides themselves on being not ‘cringey’ […]
From February to May of this year, according to police in Atlanta, there have been eight reported instances of men being “lured to remote locations” by suspects on Grindr who then robbed them. During a press conference on Wednesday, officials from the Atlanta Police Department shared a description of one suspect and outlined what they […]
Cancel whatever weekend plans you have, because Tinder‘s Swipe Night is making its big return. The dating app will kick off the second season of the interactive event this Saturday, followed by two more episodes in the following weekends. Swipe Night, which debuted in the U.S. last October, has a choose-your-own-adventure format in which users must make key […]
As the world adjusts to social distancing, small pleasures that once felt like matters of convenience, like getting our groceries delivered, are now necessities. And since dating IRL is now a no-go worldwide, reliable apps like Bumble are here to help in ways single people have always enjoyed, but now depend on more than ever […]
