Pearl - April 15, 2025


Dating Apps Are Going Bankrupt!


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Length

4 minutes

Words per minute

158.86852

Word count

644

Sentence count

48

Harmful content

Misogyny

5

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Toxicity

2

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Hate speech

7

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Dating apps are dying out and companies are struggling to keep up with the growing demand for quality service. Dating app companies are losing a combined $40B in the dating market since 2021, according to a new report from the Pew Research Center.

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00:00:00.000 the women will be 50 pounds heavier and put the face tune on and just snatch the waist. 1.00
00:00:06.440 So today we are talking about dating apps. So according to stats, 46.4% of Americans say that
00:00:15.760 they are single. Single meaning that they are not married, living with a partner, or in a committed
00:00:20.600 relationship. That means almost half of the people you see are in the current dating market. We all
00:00:27.280 know the dating market is trash. Men have walked away. Modern women are single. Mothers and whores. 1.00
00:00:33.180 And it's just a bunch of chaos. Despite that, people will continue to meet and date. What is 1.00
00:00:39.040 the number one way that couples meet? Online dating. In 2022, 50% of couples surveyed said they met
00:00:46.060 online. After 2022, the number of people using dating apps has slowly declined. There are more
00:00:52.060 and more reports of adults being burnt out on dating apps. Adults 30 and under are actively
00:00:57.420 finding new ways to meet and date outside of the apps. Are dating apps dying out? Unlike a man's 1.00
00:01:04.840 height and his dating app profile, you know, it's always the men's height that they go for,
00:01:10.660 not the women's catfish. Like, I mean, yeah, the men lie about their height, but we filter them out 1.00
00:01:16.600 based on it. The men, it's like the women will be 50 pounds heavier and put the face tune on and just 1.00
00:01:24.560 snatch the waist. It's so crazy because it's really a common talking point to talk about men's height.
00:01:30.960 And I get that. But what about women's catfishing? Like it's, it's, you know, the women catfishing is 1.00
00:01:39.000 10 times worse. It's a hundred million times worse and more prevalent and more common. Yet the men get all 1.00
00:01:46.360 of the credit for this. Okay. After the figures and the figures aren't looking too good for dating
00:01:52.720 app companies as users get fed up with swiping. Tinder's base pay shrunk to 9% year over year
00:01:59.800 in 2024, just shy of 10 million. Match group, which owns Tinder saw other investments dip as well.
00:02:07.120 Archer and Chispa apps for LGBTQ and Latino daters respectively saw revenue dips 4% in 2023.
00:02:15.280 Bumble missed, um, Bumble missed analyst expectations with its Q4 2023 earnings,
00:02:24.560 sending its stock spiraling down 30% and leading to layoffs of 30% of the workforce match group and
00:02:31.460 Bumble, which make up the majority of the dating market have lost a combined $40 billion in the
00:02:36.640 dating market since 2021. It's not just that users don't want to pay for a premium for special swipes.
00:02:44.520 They're also having a straight up bad time. Almost half of online daters and more than half of women
00:02:49.940 daters say their experiences have been negative. According to Pew research center survey compared
00:02:56.340 to trillion dollar tech giants, even the biggest billion dollar billion, even the biggest dating
00:03:03.640 companies are somewhat small match group reported a 3.4 billion in total revenue in 2023. And to stay
00:03:11.040 above water, dating companies are relying on pricey subscription models, which has led to increased
00:03:15.800 dissatisfaction from users. While dating app users spend an average of $19 a month, the charges can
00:03:22.500 get even steeper. Tinder released a $500 monthly subscription in 2023 and Hinch launched a $600
00:03:28.800 annual membership. With users being priced out of bearable dating experiences, many are turned to less
00:03:36.180 traditional platforms like LinkedIn. People are going to do a lingo to find love. That's hilarious.
00:03:43.560 Makes sense to us. If you're going to pay a monthly fee, you might as well learn Spanish too. I want to know
00:03:49.420 how that's going. So you guys are, you guys are learning Spanish and what, dating the instructors? If that's
00:03:56.380 true, a lot of men are going to sign up to be Spanish instructors. I'll tell you why. They're like, how did we get a
00:04:02.280 surge in these?