20 Wild Things People Learned While Working for Dating Apps

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20 Wild Things People Learned While Working for Dating Apps

Dating apps are a miserable place for the people who use them, but working for dating apps is its own circle of Hell.

One Redditor’s ex-boyfriend worked on the Yahoo! Italy dating site in the early aughts, and he was responsible for customer retention with a particularly unethical twist. When he saw that a man’s account was about to expire, he was required to pretend to be a woman, message them and engage in conversation — all in hopes that this man would renew his account. When he did, the Redditor’s ex-boyfriend would ghost them, trapping the man in a cycle of rejection. 

Other Redditors have exposed the wild things they’ve learned while working for dating apps, and one thing is for certain: the algorithm sure gets a lot of help from human hands.

Drach88 2y ago I didn't work for one, but there was a startup dating app I'm aware of that started to run out of investor funds when their primary source of data dried up due to changes in the privacy and data-usage policies of the systems they were pulling from. As a result, they were substantially bleeding their male audience, which in turn led to a sharp downtown in their female audience. Little by little they got rid of their engineering and operations teams until there were just a few people in the office, at least one of which would

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