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India
Man’s innovative way of finding date at Ed Sheeran’s Mumbai concert goes viral
An Indian man has gone viral after he was spotted at an Ed Sheeran concert in Mumbai wearing a T-shirt with a scannable QR code on it that l...
Bryan Ke
Business
Tinder gets its first Asian American CEO
Tinder’s parent company Match Group has promoted Faye Iosotaluno to be Tinder’s new chief executive officer. The new position: Iosotal...
Social Media
An Asian American woman’s experience on Hinge goes viral for the wrong reasons
An Asian American woman has gone viral on TikTok after showing her experience being fetishized on the dating app Hinge. Uploaded by TikTok ...
Iris Jung
Crime
Tinder date, 2 others arrested for murder of California man in Colombia
Three individuals have been arrested in connection with the mysterious death of a California man who was last seen on a Tinder date in Medel...
Carl Samson
California man found dead after Tinder date in Colombia
Paul Nguyen, 27, of Orange County, California, was reportedly robbed and killed after going on a Tinder date during a vacation in Medellin,...
Singaporean man sentenced for selling videos of sex acts with women he met on Tinder
Singaporean Chan Xin Kai, 23, was sentenced to 24 weeks of prison time after pleading guilty to five charges that include insulting a woman...
Ryan General
Singaporean man who pretended to work for charity to molest women’s feet gets jail time
Tan Boon Hwee, 32, was sent to prison for two weeks and five days after pleading guilty to two counts of outrage of modesty on Wednesday. ...
Viral
People are changing their Tinder locations to Japan so here are more Olympic athletes the internet can’t get over
People are setting their Tinder locations to Olympic Village in the hopes of finding love with one of the world’s top athletes. A TikTok tr...
Grace Kim
News
Tinder Users Are Setting their Location to Wuhan to Get the’Real Scoop’ About COVID-19
People outside China are reportedly getting information related to COVID-19 straight from the outbreak epicenter in Wuhan, China by using Ti...
Sex Workers in Indonesia are Now Using Tinder To Find Tourist Customers
Tinder may be a useful app for finding dates or relationships, but for Indonesian sex workers, the app has a very specific purpose. Through...
Hong Kong Protesters Are Now Using ‘Pokémon Go!’ and Tinder to Organize Marches
Hong Kong protesters are now coming up with innovative ways to organize themselves against the city’s controversial extradition bill. Activi...
Student Uses Snapchat Filter to Catfish Pedophile Looking for Teen Girls on Tinder
A 20-year-old San Francisco Bay Area college student named Ethan used Snapchat’s ‘gender switch’ filter to pose as a woman...
Kimberly Nguyen
Instagram
Man Poses as a Woman on Tinder Using Snapchat’s New Viral Filter — Here’s Who Swiped
A new Snapchat filter which effectively transforms its users into the opposite sex by adding eyelashes or facial hair has become an instant ...
Uncategorized
Woman’s Tinder Date Saves Her Life After Donating a Kidney
A young woman in California not only found a boyfriend on Tinder but also a kidney to save her life. Two years ago, Cheyenne Han Lee, 22, sw...
Asia
India’s Dating Apps Have Three Times More Men Than Women
There is a significant gender disparity on India’s online dating platforms that put the men at a massive disadvantage. A recent study condu...
Tinder Now Includes 23 Gender Options in India
Popular dating mobile application Tinder just rolled out a new update in India that includes 23 genders in its list of options outside the b...
11 Times Creeps On Tinder With Yellow Fever Got Savagely Rejected By Asians
Tinder is a magical place, one second you’re saying hello to a stranger and the next second you’re bombarded with unsolicited di...
Jin Hyun
Woman Exposes Creeps With Asian Fetishes on Tinder, Turns Them into Memes
Tinder and other similar dating apps have become a useful tool for many to be able to meet new people for friendships, casual hookups, and e...
Entertainment
Australian K-Pop Star is the First Asian to Be Awarded Cosmopolitan Bachelor of the Year
Korean-Australian K-pop star Kevin Kim was named 2018’s Cosmopolitan and Tinder Bachelor of the Year in Sydney on Thursday night, making him...
Khier Casino
Sports
Olympic Athletes Are All Over Tinder in PyeongChang
Aside from Olympic medals, some of the athletes participating in the prestigious sporting event in PyeongChang this year are also actively s...
Civil Rights
Reality Star Who Sent Racist Messages To Asian Tinder Match Now Accuses Her of ‘Blackmail’
After being forced to apologize for sending racist messages to an Asian woman on Tinder, New Zealand reality star Andrew Jury has taken a di...
Editorial Staff
‘Is Tinder Racist?’ Experiment Reveals the Challenges of Dating as an Asian Man
It’s no secret that Hollywood, with its stereotypical portrayal of Asian men and whitewashing of masculine Asian roles, has heavily co...
Tinder is Now Running That ‘Asian Male Hating’ Video as an Ad on YouTube
Tinder promised to pull its controversial ad featuring a female user swiping right on all potential mates except the Asian man, but netizens...
Heather Johnson Yu
Malaysian Man’s Tinder Bio is Dead on Arrival Just Like Us
A 20-year-old Malaysian man is winning the hearts of many Tinder users with his hilarious pun and dark profile bio. Malaysian college studen...
Lifestyle
Tinder’s Login Video in Hong Kong Took a Very Cheap Shot at Asian Men
Recently, Hong Kong singles have encountered a short video upon logging into Tinder that subliminally discriminates against Asian men. The v...
Misc
Asian Man Makes the Most Epic Tinder Profile Using PowerPoint
Meet Niket Biswas. He’s a Manager of Software Engineering at Facebook from New York and uhh… ladies, he’s single. ...
Man Who Called Woman ‘Chink’ on Tinder Was Charged With Raping Two Minors in 2011
Last week, San Francisco local Nick Vedovi made headlines after going on a racist and misogynist tirade towards a woman on Tinder after she ...
Opinion
Alleged Victim Pens Open Letter to Racist Tinder Bro Who Can’t Handle Rejection
Editor’s Note: Alexa Velez claims to be a victim of harassment by Nick Vedovi on Tinder. The following screen shots provided by Velez ...
Alexa Velez
Tinder Issues Lifetime Ban to Racist Guy Who Called Asian Woman ‘Ch-nk’ and ‘C-nt’
Tinder has officially banned Nick Vedovi from using their app — forever. This comes after a viral post made by Facebook user Kevin Tra...
Racist White Guy Suffers Epic Meltdown After Tinder Match Doesn’t Respond Fast Enough
This post has been updated. [03-01-2017 2:35 p.m. PST] The saying “what goes around, comes around” was clearly the case for a 24-year-old ma...
Man Epically Destroys Woman Who Says She Only Likes Tall Guys on Tinder
Short guys often get the short end of the stick when it comes to dating, because, well, taller people are supposedly deemed more attractive ...
This Woman Really Regrets Ignoring Olympic Gold Medalist Joseph Schooling on Tinder
One woman is full of regret after realizing she ignored her alleged match on Tinder with Joseph Schooling, the gold medal Olympian who out s...
Tinder is Suing Their Threesome Hookup App Rival 3nder
An independent app aimed at those want to participate in group sex called 3nder is being sued by Tinder for trademark infringement in the hi...
This 20-Year-Old Used Her Tinder Profile to Find a Job and It’s Actually Working
One clever college student decided to turn to Tinder after struggling to find a job the traditional way. Jessica Anderson, a 20-year-old int...
These ‘Tinder Nightmares’ are So Terrible They Made a Book Out of Them
Since Tinder was launched in 2012, over 8 billion matches have purportedly been made. Though many connections have materialized into meaning...
Laura Dang
Sorority Girl Expelled For Tinder Profile Pic Gets Awarded a Full Year Scholarship
One sorority girl experienced the taste of sweet revenge courtesy of Tinder after she was kicked out of her sisterhood for posting a picture...
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