Viral dating screenshots and the absurdity of 'And Just Like That'

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🗓️ 28 July 2023

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Summary

Screenshots of dating apps are making the rounds online and what feels like mundane exchanges are generating lots of ire and discourse. As these screenshots become more common in our feeds, how does it impact the search for love? And what happens when people use the apps to swipe for content? We talk to Rolling Stone culture reporter Miles Klee about modern dating expectations and if the apps have changed them.

Then, Vox senior correspondent Alex Abad-Santos talks with host Brittany Luse about dating on television. Sex and the City was one of the most culturally important shows to air on television: it showed the aspirational lives of four single women in their thirties and forties. Now that we have the sequel series And Just Like That, Alex and Brittany sift through its nonsense to ask: what important things does the show have to say about women in their fifties and beyond?

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, you're listening to it's been a minute from NPR.
0:07.0	I'm Brittany Loose.
0:08.7	On today's installment of our continuing segment, where we explore internet trends, we're
0:16.5	talking about the ever-growing digital currency of dating app content.
0:21.9	Now I've been online a long time and as an OG Black Twitter member, I am no stranger
0:27.3	to the $200 date conversations, but this is different.
0:31.4	A couple weeks ago, a text exchange between two people who seemingly had some interest
0:36.4	in each other went viral.
0:39.3	The inciting incident and ice cream date.
0:42.1	The 26 year old woman turned out to date with the man because he asked her on ice cream
0:45.0	date, which she says is the absolute bare minimum.
0:48.0	In my opinion, guys who do ice cream dates and or coffee dates are usually not really
0:53.8	sure how they actually fill about you.
0:56.3	The 26 year old male, if I transported myself back there, I couldn't, I wouldn't be that.
1:01.8	That's harsh and rude and all kinds of terrible.
1:04.5	I would never do that, but I'd be thinking it.
1:07.4	She seems like maybe she shouldn't date her.
1:09.7	She seems like not a fun time.
1:11.4	The ire, this screenshot inspired, launched TikToks, tweets and some tweets about what constitutes
1:18.4	a real first date, who is or isn't a pick me, and who does or does not have high expectations.
1:25.8	If I used to say, it went nuclear.
1:28.8	What did you think when you saw that text exchange?
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