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Tinder released their biggest update yet today, making the in-app purchases like “Rewind” and “Passport” official. You know what else is official? The shit has officially hit the fan according to the app’s reviews in the App Store. The update has a universal one-star rating with over 1,500 reviews already. People aren’t happy with the “dating” app limiting user’s swipes and likes. Unless you upgrade to Tinder Plus, your swipes are limited. Also, it wasn’t made clear that Tinder Plus’s $9.99 price tag was actually a monthly subscription fee. $120 a year down the drain just to ask girls if they do butt stuff.
The reviews are pouring in and people are PISSED:
That’s just the tip of the iceberg. Shout out to the dude who was excited about the spam bots being gone, though. Call me crazy, but I kind of liked the hooker bots. Sometimes, I needed a little confidence boost after getting shut out by babes. Those little “Hey ;)” messages were just enough to get my confidence up. Yeah, it all came crashing down once the link to the cam show popped up, but still. I didn’t mind it. You gotta chop down some weeds to get to the flowers.
Will Tinder recover from this? Yes. Undoubtedly yes, because people are and always will be a confusing mix of lazy and horny and Tinder has eliminated the guess work from hooking up. However, will we start to see the emergence of a Lyft-like competitor to Tinder’s Uber? I shot our app guy an idea. Tinder, but for butt stuff. I think it could be big. Eliminate even more guess work..
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A tinder for butt stuff? Would you name it BendHer?
How about an Uber-to-Tinder-Match capability?
They need to add a filter to the app… Call me crazy but I just want white girls who are about 120lbs.
You and every single guy of all races and sizes
Tinder was better than the competition because it was sort of a no-strings-attached opportunity to meet new people, WITHOUT the negative connotation that most popular dating apps have. If users now have to pay to use it, it gains that air of desperation that all of its peers have. Basically, if you thought the candidate pool has been bad lately, wait until you see who is swiping right after it’s a “pay to play” kinda game…
Good riddance. All spam bots and fat girls anyway!
So, no more rapid swiping right when your plane lands?
“You gotta chop down some weeds to get to the flowers.”
150 flowers, if the bots are to be believed.
Ha! I chuckled at this one. +1 for you good sir
If you don’t have $10 a month to pay for something that could help you get a girlfriend/laid, how do you expect to be able to afford a girlfriend/date? These reviews are completely unfair. “Oh my GOD I can’t believe that I am expected to pay for something!” The people at tinder don’t work for free. Heaven forbid you have to pay to use the app. “Oh my god the new iPhone sucks so much, I have to PAY for it! This is the worst thing in the entire world.”
Downvote me all you want, but you’ve gotten laid the last two years using Tinder. If you don’t like paying, then stick with the free features. If you can’t afford $10 a month, then you have a lot bigger problems in life.
Ideal Tinder date is copious amounts of alcohol + Netflix. If I’m paying $10 a month for Tinder + that $8ish dollars a month for Netflix + paying for her atrocious taste in wine / vodka, let’s put that at about $15 to give her some credit, that’s $33 to get laid, not to mention her potential craving for Jimmy John’s takeout post-coital….that’s about $50.
I’m better off buying a rando girl a bar 4 Lemondrops and myself an entire pitcher of beer and I’m wham-bam thank ya ma’am at $35 on a good night.
If I wanted to pay for sex I’m sure I could find better options than tinder
Taskey989 is full of shit, I just got a bot about 10 min ago. I smell a Snapchat plant in the App Store review section
Let’s put this in perspective: dudes are complaining because they have to pay $5…. to have pussy on tap. Less competition is fine with me.
Yes because the one thing any attractive female is going to want to do is pay money to potentially hook up with guys when, they could go to a bar and get free drinks and then hook up with guys…
Good luck with that “pussy on tap”
Ok so I might not have thought my comment through that far. 🙁
So you pay for sex?
We all do.
The currency you exchange is the only variable.
“Dating is prostitution, man, except you don’t always get what you paid for.”
-Hyde, That 70s Show