Anthropologist Natasha Schul says Tinder's ability to get users sucked into the swipe is a game. The Lutic Loop is really about sustaining you in this zone of possibility where you're not really in the world living, right? Even though you think you're going there to really, I'm going to get closure on my romantic life. But actually, the way it works does not have a resolution.
Today Kara’s out sick and we’re sharing an episode of Land of the Giants.
When Tinder launched in 2012, it changed dating culture and our expectations around dating forever by leveraging the iPhone and gamifying the dating experience. But did the rise of dating apps make finding romance easier or harder, and what are the consequences of playing a game that never ends?
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