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.