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The Mens Room Daily Podcast

Miles Just Wanted Dinner...

The Mens Room Daily Podcast

Audacy

Society & Culture

4.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Miles was set up in a situation he didn't ask for...

Transcript

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0:00.0

Reason Post on Reddit has offered insight on how dating apps may be trying to further customize

0:04.1

the user experience, though some folks may not appreciate the focus paid to one physical feature

0:09.3

in particular. Oh God, they added a height filter, reads the entry from last week with a screenshot

0:15.2

showing an apparent new tool on the tender dating app that allows people to set height preferences for potential dates.

0:23.3

A Tinder spokesperson confirmed the filter's existence, something that even the company once

0:28.3

joked about on April Fool's Day. Not a tech crunch. They made this like a parody. Right, right,

0:33.6

but now they're actually doing it. Noting that only users who pay for Tinder gold and, as you said, Ted Tinder premium,

0:39.8

not those who use the free version of the app, will have access to it.

0:43.5

Plus, the filter won't be a hard filter per se,

0:46.1

sifting out every single profile that falls below the user's set height requirements.

0:50.0

Instead, it will simply prioritize the recommendations based on those preferences.

0:55.7

So those will just come up first.

0:57.8

All right.

0:58.3

And so it'll go by height, I guess.

1:01.9

Oh, this is part of the broader effort to help people connect more intentionally on Tinder.

1:06.9

According to the company's Phil Price.

1:11.7

He said in the statement.

1:17.8

So the height filter has obviously spawned on an entry on Know Your Meme, which notes concerns that the future could limit profile visibility for a large percentage of men on the app.

1:22.7

And also broaches the subject of bias against not so tall men on the site.

1:26.9

It's over for short men.

1:28.5

One story cited on the independent.

1:30.8

I mean, it's not Short King's Summer.

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