Some Dating App’s Users Are Trying to Get People to Violate Social Distancing
Posted on May 11, 2020
BUSINESS INSIDER – May 9 – Tinder, Bumble, and Hinge have reported increased use amid the coronavirus pandemic, while touting virtual dating alternatives for users instead of meeting up in person. Swaths of users are still encouraging matches to break quarantine to have sex and go on dates. Artist Samantha Rothenberg, who uses the handle @violetclair on Instagram, has been collecting these screenshots from followers, and said she's received close to a thousand of such stories. She has long collected screenshots of users' horror stories from dating app interactions, which she often will depict in illustrations she posts to her Instagram account. But now, nearly all of the screenshots she's received have had to do with coronavirus.
