Modern love is difficult to navigate. Even after re-binging Master Of None, understanding the intense world of emojis, seen-zoning an ghosting is an arduous task. Amidst all of this, it’s pretty easy to become love-cynical.
Tinder has been around for a while now, and we know you’re out there using your work bathroom breaks to furiously swipe and hope for a match – but what are your success rates looking like? If the selection pool out there is getting a bit too overwhelming, here are a few niche options that’ll pander to your strange desires….
1) HIGH THERE
The fact you have 4:20/ ‘legalise it’ somewhere in your Tinder profile is probably a bit of a turn off to the less avid supporters of weed. Marketed as a ‘global social network for the cannabis community’, High Times has seen long-term relationships and marriage proposals come from it’s usage. Further proof the only people that can tolerate dedicated stoners for longer than 5 minutes are other stoners.
2) DATE-A-TRADIE
High-vis, rough hands and a hard hat. Find your ideal Four an Twenty pie eating match on this one.
3) DATING AI
This is the closest you’ll get to celeb intimacy since you had that poster of Rihanna on your wall when you were 16…. This app uses AI technology to find your desired celebrity look-a-like’s in your area. Want a Khaleesi look-a-like? There could be one in your area. Have a thing for Steve Buscemi fetish you don’t want to tell your friends about? Get on Dating AI.
4) RAYA
You’re definitely not famous enough to use this one. Raya is a ‘ private, membership-based network’, used as an “exclusive platform for people in creative industries”. It literally sounds like the app embodiment of your hipster friend who claims their life was ‘changed’ after their trip to Berlin and does DJ sets every other weekend. Apparently Diplo, Flume and Cara Delevigne have been known to use it.
5) FEEL’D
Also known as ‘3nder’. Got the picture?
6) WINGMAN
Setting up your mates on a night out can be one of life’s most rewarding and simultaneously hilarious activities. Now, there’s an app for it.
7) BRISTLR
Yeah, the lumberjack trend may be very 2015 at this point, but, there are plenty around who still want a special someone to~stroke~……their beards of course. Get your head out of the gutter for god sake…
