Overall, longterm swipers are feeling burnt out. When rival app Hinge crashed this past March, people rejoiced at their liberation from the tyranny of digital matchmaking.
The smartphone-era platforms peaked in the mid-2010s, and if you’re feeling lonely upon logging in, it’s not just you: The data shows that Tinder is steadily losing people, and there are signs that Gen Z has little interest in such services. The novelty of Bumble, Hinge, and Tinder (to say nothing of older sites like OkCupid, eHarmony, and ) wore off long ago.
It’s hardly the first time someone unhappily single has mused over the potential end of dating apps. I’m with 50 girls named Nicole that look like they got pictures from TikTok.” “All the matches I get are prepayment scams and Tinder seeks to do nothing about it.
“Is Tinder dead?” a Reddit user wondered late last year.