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25 Painfully Awkward Dating App Interactions
Dating in general can be super scary. Having to meet random people and get to know them is vulnerable and intimidating. It's hard to know if someone is going to be the one off the bat, usually they aren't. Online dating isn't any better, in fact, it's usually worse. Dating with apps like Tinder and Bumble are meant to be easy and efficient, but in reality, they make things so much worse. Now, dating has become a big game of 'hot or not' where people match solely based on looks and hope for a connection.
That's not to say no one can find love on these apps, it can just be a pain sometimes. People seem to lose a lot of their manners online, making for some really insane and absurd first messages and pickup lines. Some of them are just rude. There are plenty of these awkward dating fails to see on Reddit, so here are just 25 of them from /r/Tinder and /r/Bumble.