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Tinders top dating trends and predictions for 2025
Cuffing season is in full swing and 2024 is nearing its end, which means it’s time for Tinder‘s annual Year in Swipe. Each year, the ubiquitous dating app reveals year-long trends and what they could mean for dating in the future.
Here’s what defined dating in 2024, according to Tinder, and what may be in store in 2025:
Tinder’s top 2024 dating trends
This year, “pickleball” was the fastest-growing mention in people’s bios (+148 percent). This is followed by “freak” (+118 percent) — likely users asking for someone to match their freak. “Deserve” rounded out the top 3 with +95 percent mentions.
Tinder users stated their top communication style was “better in person,” followed by being a “big-time texter,” then “phone caller,” then “bad texter.” “Video chatter” ranked at the bottom.
In terms of love styles (similar to the love languages), the top 5 from highest to lowest were: time together, touch, thoughtful gestures, compliments, and presents.
Tinder also measured the fastest-growing emojis on the app: the pink bow, cloud, backpack, palm, and owl.
Fastest-growing emojis in Tinder bios.
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Tinder’s 2025 dating predictions
Singes are “loud looking”
“Looking for…” was Tinder’s top bio mention in 2024, according to global data from Tinder bios, descriptors, and interests from January 1 to October 1 this year. Despite Tinder’s longtime reputation as a “hookup app,” insights from the app’s Green Flags study show that’s not always the case: 53 percent of men want a romantic relationship, and 68 percent of women want the same.
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Manifesting “kiss-met” love
Manifest is the Cambridge Dictionary’s word of the year — and young singles are proving that true. Nearly 20 percent of 4,000 18-30 year-old daters surveyed said they’re creating vision boards to manifest their ideal relationship in 2025. Tinder introduced an interactive vision board tool so users can create one in-app and share it with friends and family.
Tinder predicts that daters will “embrace the magic of the unplanned” in 2025, moving away from strict “rules” (and, hopefully, icks).
“Micro-connecting” is in
Tinder also predicts the rise of “nano-ships” and “micro-connections” — such as good morning texts (textuationships, naturally) or stealing a glance at a cute stranger on the subway (eyecontactship). While it may seem silly, Bumble also discussed micro-mance behaviors in its 2025 dating trends forecast — so there might be something to this.
Both apps also discussed renewed optimism in their users, which they would need in the next year considering daters are getting sick of dating apps. Around a quarter of surveyed singles said they’re focusing on joy and positivity, and bringing an optimistic outlook to their dating life, according to that same survey of 4,000 18-30 year-olds. Bumble found that 87 percent of users experienced positives of dating this year.
Daters are streamlining their rosters
A quarter of surveyed singles are choosing fewer, more meaningful connections to keep their energy and excitement for dating alive, Tinder states. This may be the result of what apps predicted during the height of the pandemic: Daters will become more intentional and seek deeper connections.
Daters also aren’t deciding their rosters alone: They’re enlisting the help of friends and the stars. This year, 60 percent of singles turned to friends for dating advice, and almost 20 percent asked a friend to pre-screen their date by checking out their social media profiles. Nearly half of singles said they plan to rely on their friends to navigate the dating world next year (Bumble also found the same, in terms of guy friends helping women in their lives).
Astrology is also influencing how singles choose dates. Nearly 40 percent of singles said that “astrology love predictions” will shape who they date next year. (Virgos, Geminis, Leos, Scopios, and Sagittariuses received the most “likes” of all the Zodiac signs in 2024.)
Golden Retrievers wanted
Nearly 45 percent of singles want a “Golden Retriever” type in 2025: loyal, friendly, energetic, and optimistic. Here are some other qualities singles are prioritizing next year:
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Trustworthiness (40 percent)
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Physical attraction (35 percent)
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Shared values (31 percent)
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Emotional availability (30 percent)
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Shared interests (28 percent)
Here are the top deal-breakers:
“Singles are embracing intentionality in their dating lives — being upfront about what they want and refusing to settle,” Tinder CMO Melissa Hobley said in the announcement. “These trends are all about empowering choice — whether it’s confidently stating your needs while Loud Looking, savoring serendipitous moments through Kiss-mets, or finding meaning in micro-connections with Nano-ships.”
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Get Ankers 14-in-1 Thunderbolt 5 Dock for $60 less at Amazon
SAVE 15%: As of April 22, you can get the Anker Prime 14-in-1 Thunderbolt 5 Dock for $339.99, down from $399.99, at Amazon. That’s a 15% discount or $60 savings.
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Working off a laptop is great until you realize you only have two ports and need to plug something in. If you’re hooked up to an external monitor, keyboard, and mouse, you’re pretty much out of luck on the rest. Not only that, but your previously uncluttered desk will most likely look like a Best Buy exploded (a rat’s nest of cords isn’t cute or helpful for anyone getting work done).
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How I scored ad-free Paramount+ Premium for only 99 cents
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How Stargate SG-1 Used A Classic Trope To Emotionally Wreck Its Fans
By Jonathan Klotz
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Garfield and Friends said it best: “Oh no, we’ve resorted to an evil twin storyline.” Star Trek: The Original Series did it the best with Mirror Universe Spock, and ever since, it’s been a lazy excuse for every series to use when they run out of ideas. The exception is Stargate SG-1’s sixth episode, “Cold Lazarus,” which plays with the trope by making the twin less evil and more confused.
When fans say they skip this episode when rewatching, it’s not because it’s a lazy, poorly written episode. In fact, it’s the opposite. The ending of “Cold Lazarus” is a pivotal character moment for Jack O’Neill (Richard Dean Anderson) and a gut punch to the audience.
Stargate SG-1’s First Evil Twin
“Cold Lazarus” opens with the SG-1 team on a planet that doesn’t look like Vancouver (it was a giant pile of sulfur at the port of Vancouver). The desert landscape is dotted with shattered blue crystals that look like the remnants of a civilization until we see a crystal eye-view of O’Neill, a mysterious light knocks him out, and all of a sudden, a second O’Neill is looking down at the first. Turns out, the crystals are the civilization.
Fake O’Neill is trying to figure out who O’Neill is and what SGC is all about. When he pulls out photos of his family, it takes Samantha Carter (Amanda Tapping) by surprise. O’Neill’s never mentioned his wife, Sara, or his son, Charlie. Confused, the Fake O’Neill goes to the home, where Sara is disgusted he’d come by and thinks it’s a sick joke that he’s asking about Charlie. If you’re wondering if you missed a key part of O’Neill’s backstory, don’t worry, this is the first time that either Sara or Charlie is mentioned, and tragically, we soon learn why.
No One Ever Dies
Charlie shot himself with O’Neill’s gun. Fake O’Neill starts to piece this together when he goes into Charlie’s old room and breaks down, prompting Sara and him to finally have the conversation about their shared grief. Back in SGC, the crystal’s nature is revealed to be an energy alien calling itself Unity, which accidentally killed a Jaffa, and the Goa’uld shattered them in retribution. That’s when O’Neill stumbles back through the Stargate, and the team realizes the mistake they made.
The Fake O’Neill is soon captured at a local hospital, suffering from Earth’s radiation, where he explains that he sensed O’Neill’s pain after he took his form and wanted to help ease the suffering, as nothing ever truly dies to Unity. To prove its point, Unity transforms into Charlie, giving O’Neill and Sara one last chance to see their child. Fans who haven’t lost a child can understand the emotion, but for fans who have, this scene is emotional torture, in the best way possible.
Jack knows this isn’t Charlie, but he talks to him like he is, and then they walk together through the Stargate back to Unity’s planet. It’s a beautiful moment that explains so much about O’Neill’s throwing himself into work and how even his friendships remain professional. “Cold Lazarus” may have started out with the “evil twin” trope in full effect, but the ending is proof that even early during its run, Stargate SG-1 was going to be the greatest.
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