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Thanks for subscribing! Look out for your first newsletter in your inbox soon! We put these dating apps to the test to determine which among them is more credible. You never know, you might just meet your soulmate online. We all know how this one works: swipe left for a no, right for hell yeah.
There was also the obvious handful of bored army boys. Happn tries to capture the romantic idea that your next squeeze could be the stranger you just passed by. Oh, and one guy offered me a job interview that may or may not have been a disguise for a date.
I wish you were American. This app takes itself very seriously, almost to a fault. You spend them to reveal the mutual friends that you and your match have. It feels like the equivalent of sending out a Facebook invite to a game that no one wants to play, and smells a little of desperation. Created by the co-founder of Tinder, Bumble gives women the upper hand. After a brief session of swiping left, I had completely run out of people to ogle.
And as for how Bumble compares to its nymphomaniac sibling Tinder, the kind of quotes that were in the profiles of my potential matches were like outtakes from 9GAG. So, not that different. Pictures also featured a lot of lion cubs and elephant-riding β the animals-attract-girls strategy is a lot more endangered than the fuzzy golden retriever here.
