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Why are people on Tinder swiping right on Kombucha and 'realness'? | Jessa Crispin

For all of the seemingly strange new online dating trends, mating in the 21st century is surprisingly similar to what it’s always been
‘Kombucha is about five or six times the price of a can of soda’ Photograph: PR

Is irony or despair the best way to process the news that “real” was the most used word on Tinder bios in 2019? People are constructing advertisements for their hearts on a platform where their face will be viewed by thousands of people for the fraction of a second it takes to totally reject them. All the while, they say things like “I’m real,” or “I’m looking for something real” or “you better be real.”

Tinder released a summary of all the data it collected from its users over the past year. And leaving out it keeps tabs

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