We’re strictly pro-Tinder here at Sick Chirpse, not least because its users provide us with A+ material for our weekly Tinder series, plus other wacky stories about Tinder dates gone wrong. Plus it’s made hook ups super easy for willing men and women alike and even resulted in a ton of marriages, what’s not to love about that?
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Not everyone loves the app as much as us though, and for some reason the peeps over at Tinder HQ have taken one particular article from Vanity Fair very badly indeed.
Vanity Fair basically crapped on Tinder in their story by taking the whole “romance is dead” angle, essentially blaming dating apps like Tinder for killing it. They say it’s only good for men who want to “pursue a short-term mating strategy”, and for women who want to get “free meals disguised as dates”.
For some reason Tinder took this shade from Vanity Fair very personally indeed, and whoever’s in charge of their Twitter account went into full on meltdown mode. Take a look at these:
–@VanityFair Little known fact: sex was invented in 2012 when Tinder was launched.
— Tinder (@Tinder) August 11, 2015
–@VanityFair & @nancyjosales — we have lots of data. We surveyed 265,000 of our users. But it doesn’t seem like you’re interested in facts.
— Tinder (@Tinder) August 11, 2015
Our actual data says that 1.7% of Tinder users are married — not 30% as the preposterous GlobalWebIndex article indicated.
— Tinder (@Tinder) August 11, 2015
https://twitter.com/Tinder/status/631249125959335936
The Tinder Generation is real. Our users are creating it. But it’s not at all what you portray it to be.
— Tinder (@Tinder) August 11, 2015
If you want to try to tear us down with one-sided journalism, well, that’s your prerogative.
— Tinder (@Tinder) August 11, 2015
Tinder creates experiences. We create connections that otherwise never would have been made. 8 billion of them to date, in fact.
— Tinder (@Tinder) August 11, 2015
Tinder users are on Tinder to meet people for all kinds of reasons. Sure, some of them — men and women — want to hook up.
— Tinder (@Tinder) August 11, 2015
Our data tells us that the vast majority of Tinder users are looking for meaningful connections.
— Tinder (@Tinder) August 11, 2015
It’s about meeting new people for all kinds of reasons. Travel, dating, relationships, friends and a shit ton of marriages.
— Tinder (@Tinder) August 11, 2015
The ability to meet people outside of your closed circle in this world is an immensely powerful thing.
— Tinder (@Tinder) August 11, 2015
Instead, your article took an incredibly biased view, which is disappointing.
— Tinder (@Tinder) August 11, 2015
But it’s not going to dissuade us from building something that is changing the world. #GenerationTinder
— Tinder (@Tinder) August 11, 2015
So yeah, they’d probably have done better to just ignore that article. No one who’s swiping on Tinder gives a shit what Vanity Fair thinks, and neither should they. Should probably get someone with thicker skin to run the Twitter account I reckon.
Check out our most recent Best & Worst of Tinder HERE – it’s laugh out loud funny.
