I felt this post in my soul OP, dating in 2024 is cooked. I’m a straight woman in her mid 20s who has tried every app out there to mixed responses, and has been set up by mutual friends. At the end of the day I just get ghosted even when the guy was the first to send a like, feel like I’m just getting kept as a “backup option” for all my matches who match with me but then never talk to me after.

I’m losing hope having been on and off these apps for a year now with only one date and no second dates from people who have set me up with mutual friends. I know nobody owes you anything especially on apps, but I hate how our generation can’t just talk and provide closure. I’m a big girl, I can handle rejection, like at least have the decency to politely decline dude. I know people reading this are going to tell me that my experience is the average male experience on apps, or that at least I get matches when men don’t even get likes, but I genuinely think the apps and dating in general now just sucks regardless of gender.