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The Hidden Hand Behind Your Swipes

Land of the Giants

CHAPTER

Dating Burnout

"Like most little gay kids, I was using Grindr when I first started. That's like really the only way to meet other gay people," Gilbert says. He moved to New York in 2016 and had a new city, new me moment so he tried some new dating apps. Hinge is supposed to have this sophisticated algorithm, you know, high-quality matches. The app pitched itself as designed to be deleted. And then I, like five or six profiles I've seen were people I had already talked to. Some of them I had already, like, been on dates with."

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