tiktok's boyfriend tests & the spectacle of modern love
in Courtney’s life, the one that seemed to consume her most was romantic. The video director wasn’t returning her calls. It was a problem common to all women, no matter what they looked like or how famous they were.
Neil Strauss • The Game
Operating in the anxious space between notions of health and toxicity, relationship apps teach us ways of loving that privilege efficiency over depth, quantifiability over knowledge, and success over joy.
Real Life • Silent Partner
I Went to One of Tinder’s In-Person Dating Events. What I Saw Will Haunt All My Days.
Magdalene Taylorslate.com
Looking for love sounds more like chasing the high of an extreme sport, trust falling with someone you don’t really know like that. It demands exacting reciprocity, extreme vulnerability. It brings out people’s basest and most primal instincts and a frightening desire to merge into someone else. When the girlies on TikTok talk about dating, they ra... See more
Flirting Parties and Romantic Gorpcore
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