how dating apps keep you single

Valentine's Day is right around the corner, cuffing season is reaching its end, and dating apps... still suck. In this video, Sabrina explores the algorithms behind apps like Tinder, Hinge, and Bumble to figure out where they all go wrong. In the process, she makes a dating simulator for... soup. This is a weird one, folks.

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SOCIAL MEDIA
Sabrina
Melissa
Taha

CREDITS
Produced by Sabrina Cruz
Video Editing by Vicky Moonan
Motion Design by Sabrina Cruz
Sound Design by Sabrina Cruz

MUSIC

RECOMMENDED READING
"Tinder may not get you a date. It will get your data." (2020) by Rebecca Heilweil
"The Tinder algorithm, explained" (2019) by Kaitlyn Tiffany

TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Introduction
00:58 Sabrina reads some stuff (what a surprise)
01:41 How Dating Algorithms Work
06:14 Soup, a series of unfortunate events.
07:26 Sabrina makes Bad Decisions at 2AM
09:09 Sabrina potentially damages her friendships
11:37 How to Fix Dating Apps
13:07 Share this video so we can afford soup for our family

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Welcome to the joke under the fold! Here's a sweet one for the romantics out there:

What did the gardener say to their crush? I love you from my head tomatoes :)

Leave a comment with the word TOMATO to let me know you were here ;-)

[answerinprogress]

I hope you enjoyed that video! *What's your favourite pick up line? Comment down below!*

[AMinibot]

I always feel weird saying I met my girlfriend online, because people tend to assume 'dating app' when the reality is 'Transformers fanfiction'.

[BarryMikokinju]

Dating apps are not keeping me single. I'm doing a terrific job at that myself.

[af_kiwi]

"I'm at Soup" "WHY ARE YOU FINDING LOVE IN THE SOUP STORE?!"

[synthlord]

Is there ANYTHING this girl doesn't do??? She's an artist, a game designer, a math major, a researcher...I'm impressed.

[braincraft]

Feeling lucky that I met my husband on an app and he ISN'T a can of soup (as far as I can tell)

[raynahylden]

Boyfri(end)
Girlfri(end)
Soup

Only soup has no end

[chrisconner]

Interestingly enough, "I got chicken even though I answered 'no' to 'do I like meat in my soup, '" pretty well sums up my frustration with dating apps.

[Freakachu_]

"People get overwhelmed with too many choices, burn out, and give up."

Lol, that requires me to get a match in the first place.

[yuvalne]

One of the most cliché pickup lines in Hebrew is "Is your dad a gardener? No? Then how come you're such a flower?"
The thing is, my dad IS a gardener, so people who try to use that line on me often get surprised and forget what they were going for.

[MedlifeCrisis]

I know this wasn’t the point, but I really want a dating app for the undead now.

[OurKindofEntertainment]

Dating apps are as broken as the ice cream machine at McDonald's

[DeltaJim]

"I can't find a date, there's only soup."
"Well then get off the soup profile!"
"There's just more soup."
"Go to the next profile!"
"It's still soup."
"What app are you on?"
"I'm on soup!"
"Why are you trying to date on a soup app!?!"

[globalelite]

Heres my stats as a straight male. One month on hinge i got roughly 60 matches. Of those matches 45 didnt even respond to a conversation starter to get the ball rolling. Of the 15 that responded, 6-7 stopped after 1-2 messages. 3 were dry texters and 2 were long conversationalists. The last 5 lead to dates that went nowhere. Id like to think that if just talked to some of the people around me in my daily life that i could have found just as many dates instead of the hours i wasted swiping messaging and responding.

[bilboswaggings]

i mean, i have been thinking this for years: "their point is to get a lot of matches, not good ones... since if it worked really well those people would stop using the app and the app goes out of business"

[KleinOfficial]

Dating apps suck because the point of entry is how you look, and the endless options (which aren't necessarily within your grasps) create FOMO so people are hesitant to commit. This doesn't apply to soup which explains why soups are better than dating.

[backwashjoe]

The business goal of a dating app is... to keep you using the dating app!

[TEHSMISH]

"dating apps are bad because they give you too many options and paralyze you" *looks at my 3 matches in 3 months* ... wut?

[cheydinal]

The title alone made me immediately realize that of course it's a pretty giant conflict of interest when you make money off of people *getting to know as many people as possible*, not of them actually finding somebody they'll stick with

[atalayalunas]

Me a 16 year old who has no plans of dating: ah yes, soup dating