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GRINDR GRINDS ON
Dating apps are dying. Young people are dreaming of IRL meet-cutes in coffee shops, park dates, and long-term relationships. They want REAL love; not hookups.
So Tinder is out. The Bumble bees aren’t buzzing anymore. And Bumble’s efforts to bring more users to the hive (i.e not just millennial women) hasn’t gone so well — a lot of people were pretty offended by the company’s splashy ads mocking celibacy earlier this year.
And yet… apps aren’t entirely dead. Grindr and Hinge are defying the odds. Hinge, the app “designed to be deleted,” saw user downloads climb in the second quarter. And Grindr, the LGBTQ+ hookup and dating app, has seen its stock price soar, as Bumble and Match Group (Tinder and Hinge’s parent company) flail.
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