Snapchat's "half-swipe has become one of the most toxic parts of teen dating"

From one of the stories in the latest edition of Casey Lewis's consistently great newsletter "After School":

Snapchat’s “half-swipe” feature, which lets users secretly view messages without marking them read, has exacerbated dating anxiety among teen girls, prompting Snapchat to introduce an “eyes” emoji alert for $4/month Snapchat+ subscribers that lets users know when they're being half-swiped.

"Who Was Rupert Murdoch’s Two-Week Fiancée?"

NYT:

In 1988, she was involved in an imbroglio at a society gala on the dance floor of the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco. Reuters described the melee as “a shoving match between two San Francisco socialites” .... “She pulled my hair,” [the victim] said in an interview for this article. “She scratched me.” [She] pleaded no contest to misdemeanor assault and was ordered to donate $3,000 to a shelter for abused women, Reuters reported at the time.

...

[Her] life began to turn around when she became a Christian, she told the network, adding that she had started doing volunteer work as a chaplain for police departments in Marin County. In 1999, she wed ... a former percussionist in the rock band Santana. The fact of that marriage, which lasted about a year

...

Her third marriage was to ... a radio and television entrepreneur in Modesto, Calif., who had started out as a disc jockey and country singer. [She] appeared at his side on the cover of ... a 2005 album .... In the photo, [she] is dressed in a police uniform with a priest’s collar, her hand on her husband’s shoulder.

And of course:

not sure I believe this but I am sure there are like eighty different competing reasons he got canned and I love each of them in their own special way https://t.co/ySSvQMVnFf

— kilgore trout, blue check blocker (@KT_So_It_Goes) April 25, 2023

Today's funny posts

Por La Cultura. pic.twitter.com/pFoGGASAWt

— NFL (@NFL) September 15, 2022

The NFL actually did the “Mexican Lemonade” bit from The Office https://t.co/yRLkYluuIK pic.twitter.com/3OAMyUaqXm

— Rodger Sherman (@rodger) September 15, 2022

If you haven't seen it, this thread about modern dating is truly great (inspired by the Curry divorce)

Very funny, and cheaper than paying for couple's therapy.

Today's funny posts

this photo in particular killed me. pic.twitter.com/FYYuPCAwcj

— Brooke Jarvis (@brookejarvis) August 10, 2020

Germans are wicked 😭😭😭😭😭 pic.twitter.com/AB5GZOXE4z

— Edmund 💉 (@EdmundOris) August 7, 2020

you come to me on this, the day of my daughter’s zine launch

— shame (@shamebanduk) August 6, 2020

no one:
disney channel: https://t.co/lTjld4v8p1

— tasia (@_tasiams) August 6, 2020

pic.twitter.com/LezRc94A2k

— Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens (@CSMFHT) August 7, 2020

This boy made a POWERPOINT for tinder and i can’t stop laughing pic.twitter.com/GrCZbCRHNs

— jaycie (@haugendazs) September 29, 2019

why is it so awkward walking back after u bowI in bowling

— 🥀 s u r e ♡ (@alvin_the_don) August 6, 2020

Shitty airline travel is the absolute pinnacle of humanity to me. We found a way to soar through the high untrespassed sanctity of space and also found a way to make it suck the whole time. Absolutely iconic work by the species.

— Ariana Lenarsky (@aardvarsk) August 26, 2018

i was crossing a big road on my walk: there were no cars, & an old lady was next to me. we both looked, paused. she asked, ‘will we run?’ and for whatever reason i said ‘sure they can’t hit both of us!’. she said, ‘courage!’ but in french, like corage. we ran together, then 🤍

— sarah maria griff (@griffski) August 7, 2020

I have some questions pic.twitter.com/qsvajNZEYr

— Dea Poirier (@deapoirierbooks) August 7, 2020

🐴呼んだ⁉️🐴おどどどっ💦 pic.twitter.com/sKhW2JuuC5

— 吉川八幡神社 御神馬🐴いづめ🐴公式 (@yoshikawa8izume) August 6, 2020

Baby spotted skunks of the day. pic.twitter.com/C966mR6mg1

— Dick King-Smith HQ (@DickKingSmith) August 7, 2020

note the casual entry and hurried exit
this is an experienced seagull shoplifter pic.twitter.com/WnIOkIsqfK

— btw there's still a pandemic 💣 (@ziyatong) August 8, 2020

Husky: But this is scary.
Shitsu: It's a good day to die! pic.twitter.com/fuQZEVU4yl

— ᗰᗩᖇᛕ ᗩ. ᖇᗩƳᑎᗴᖇ (@markarayner) August 10, 2020

*More funny posts.

Ten funny tweets

My dad is retired, and has started walking dogs at the local shelter on Wednesday mornings. He sends a picture and little bio about them sometimes.
CC: @dog_rates @dogfather pic.twitter.com/HYdHsdnFi0

— Andrea Richardson (@AandreaLleigh) January 29, 2020

A sourdough starter is a tamagotchi for people in their 30s

— Louise O'Connor (@oconnola) January 29, 2020

I once changed my online dating profile, and pretended to be a sentient crème brûlée. I got more than double the likes than I did with my normal profile, and even a bunch of messages.

— Fesshole (@fesshole) January 31, 2020

graphic design is my passion pic.twitter.com/q9hq8Bwsxh

— Jill Biden's right index finger (@evren__7) January 31, 2020

Imagine getting in a cab blacked out tryna make it home and you wake up with $3000 in your pocket. You panic cause you don’t know how you got the money, 10 months later you’re watching tv and see your drunk ass getting in the back of the Cash Cab and nailing all the questions

— Luke (@NotLukeEberhart) January 30, 2020

Schrödinger's cat demonstrating here that cats are plasmas they are neither solid nor liquid pic.twitter.com/p41HvYkf4Q

— Khai (@ThamKhaiMeng) January 31, 2020

Marc Davis has had it with Eric Gordon’s reactions to foul calls pic.twitter.com/TOytbETwAV

— Alykhan Bijani (@Rockets_Insider) January 30, 2020

finally my ship of "the two figures from the MSN Messenger icon" is being validated https://t.co/uAPOgBcfiV

— the internet's michael lutz (@WarrenIsDead) January 30, 2020

well u wasnt no Kobe lol https://t.co/woecpLZiFY

— sailor moon (@70sluvchild) January 29, 2020

I’m on the edge of my seat! pic.twitter.com/tn2MbABmZe

— Gillian OShaughnessy (@GillOshaughness) January 31, 2020

*More funny posts.

Ten funny tweets

I'd love to get in touch with Emilio Esteves. Does anyone have his emailio addressteves?

— Séamas It Ever Was (@shockproofbeats) November 16, 2012

This was her this morning feeding her #Avengers breakfast 😂🥰 pic.twitter.com/RtFhx0xulA

— Paddy Raff (@paddyraffcomedy) October 10, 2019

its only me and this girl on a google doc rn... my palms are so sweaty

— lil uzi hurt (@LameAsChris) October 9, 2019

Reflecting on when James Franco put out a book of short stories and a novel and they were very comfortably in the “sophomore English major” range of accomplishment and one of the stories contained the line “the shadows were shadow-colored”

— Connor Wroe Southard (@ConnorSouthard) October 10, 2019

In my 8th grade science class a girl read “orgasm” instead of “organism” & the entire class laughed at her. To comfort her our teacher said “Everyone’s gonna forget in 2 weeks”. It’s been 9 years & I still remember Maria! I fucking remember! I hope you see this!

— mo (@moprob1ems) October 9, 2019

IDC how old I am I wanna try dumb shit like this 🥰🤣🥰 pic.twitter.com/EhCFXYDaPT

— Tesy 🌹 (@TesySugarCrypto) October 10, 2019

If United sees this, get ready for "Economy Minus" https://t.co/73u894WWNK

— Pinboard (@Pinboard) October 10, 2019

getting increasingly mad about the one dream i remember from last night:

i'm in a restaurant, and i take a seat at a table with an array of fancy pumpkins in the middle of it. i say to the person across the table, “gourd to see you”

— soph 🎃🏒 (@sophmallinson) October 10, 2019

Tip: When making a sex tape, play Disney music in the background. That way, if it gets leaked online, Disney attorneys will have them all taken down.

— /dan/null (@NoTalentAC) October 8, 2019

Big cats are just big cats pic.twitter.com/0oiILgbgGW

— Awwwww (@AwwwwCats) October 10, 2019

*More funny posts.

What if when you finished a Telltale game episode you could hook up with the weirdos who made the same obscure choices you did?

That's what this new Tinder "game" starting in October sounds like:

The project, called SwipeNight, consists of four episodes. One will air each week on the Tinder app. In each episode, users who participate will be ushered through an apocalyptic scenario and prompted to make a series of choices, from the seemingly unimportant (how to best D.J. a party) to the critical (whose life to save). The show features a cast of young diverse actors and, like a video game, gives the user a first-person perspective on the action.

Participants will then show up in each other’s lists of potential matches. Some of the choices they made during the show will be visible on their profiles. That is when, the company hopes, a number of those people will swipe right on each other and talk about what they experienced.

Ten funny tweets

pic.twitter.com/7NBUO2P19w

— jeremy (@mightyrobot) July 13, 2018

these are widely regarded to be the four most valuable baseball cards ever made. combined, they are estimated to be worth upwards of $150 million pic.twitter.com/5Rcg1F6EHb

— Jon Bois (@jon_bois) July 13, 2018

My most on-brand childhood moment might this book cover with “da Shaq “ making a “three point dunk.” I was very into Shaq and apparently NBA Jam.

When I’m fixated on something I will find a way to bring it up. ..

...this is a book report about “The Indian in the Cupboard.” pic.twitter.com/wR7KkdFqGc

— it’s lewis (@WeilLoop) July 10, 2018

I always love the cover of AI Magazine. The robot is so happy. pic.twitter.com/WC331bBQSd

— will knight (@willknight) July 13, 2018

Ghostbusters 2 pic.twitter.com/ePmlvm6xsr

— johnnyB (@agraphafx) July 13, 2018

It turns out neural networks are bad at naming burlesque shows.https://t.co/JxpLm9WVMb pic.twitter.com/KwhXSPrImu

— Janelle Shane (@JanelleCShane) July 13, 2018

Big mood on the dash of this Lyft driver pic.twitter.com/UIoog1QcwR

— Super Nintendo Chalmers (@laura_hudson) July 9, 2018

Chick-fil A customer service is simply unmatched pic.twitter.com/Vk7PzyD5Ab

— 5th Year (@5thYear) July 9, 2018

Broke: Tinder is boring and nothing interesting comes of it.
Woke: pic.twitter.com/vBzGfa4ocr

— mitch cramer (@HeavyxEyed) July 1, 2018

I'm glad I decided to read these baby books. I'm learning so many important things. pic.twitter.com/O5A1KNlax1

— Shannon Refenes 🦄🥓 (@shangasm) July 6, 2018

"You could be flirting on dating apps with paid impersonators"

Qz:

Every morning I wake up to the same routine. I log into the Tinder account of a 45-year-old man from Texas—a client. I flirt with every woman in his queue for 10 minutes, sending their photos and locations to a central database of potential “Opportunities.” For every phone number I get, I make $1.75.

I’m what’s called a “Closer” for the online-dating service ViDA (Virtual Dating Assistants). Men and women (though mostly men) from all over the world pay this company to outsource the labor and tedium of online dating.

...

Profile Writers follow strict guidelines, often recycling the same half-dozen clichés over and over again. If a client has a dog (jackpot!), all the Profile Writer needs to do is search for the word “dog” in their manual and choose from a list of dog-related one-liners

Tumblr devoted to Tinder pics of guys with tigers

New Tumblr:

Documenting the absurdly large number of dudes who have taken a picture with a tiger and are attempting to use said picture to woo women on the internet.

Link roundup

1. Nightmare fuel.  And more.

2. "A 25-year-old Japanese man confessed this week to slashing as many as 1,000 tires in a bizarre, yet apparently successful scheme to pick up female drivers."

3.  Penelope Trunk:

At one point I dated the youngest doctor in Illinois. He was gorgeous and brilliant. He worked in the emergency room and in between patients, almost every night, he had sex with nurses. He broke off three engagements and moved to a state where he knew no one. And he's worked the emergency room night shift for the last twenty years because that's a lifestyle that is most likely to allow for avoiding social engagement.

Link roundup

1. Here's Jess Nevins's annotations to the excellent League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Century 2009 (Alan Moore's the best writer in comics, and it's not even close). Sample (SPOILER SPOILER):

Norton, Mina and Orlando are walking into Platform 13, from Eva Ibbotson’s The Secret of Platform 13. In the novel Platform 13 in King’s Cross Station leads to another world.

And, yes, the similarities between Ibbotson and J.K. Rowling’s Platform 9 3/4 has been noted before, though no one seriously believes that Rowling plagiarized or stole from Ibbotson. In Ibbotson’s words, “I think we all borrow from each other as writers.”

And from Rich Johnston's observations:

There’s a certain character that made all the headlines the other week when the comic went on sale in England. And while I am in awe at the tricks Moore and O’Neill use to avoid any trademark or copyright issues concerning him, there is a name they use, found, scorched, in the grounds of a magical school. But rather than having the initials HP on his folder, instead there is the name “Will Stanton.”

Will was the lead in the second The Dark Is Rising novel from 1973, the seventh son of a seventh son who discovers his wizarding heritage on his eleventh birthday, and must collect six “signs” to help fight The Dark. Yes, comparisons have been made. What this means, despite all the newspaper headlines, it may be a very different children’s wizarding character who is actually portrayed on the page…

2. Gawker writer tries out new matchmaking site, gets fixed up with a Gawker writer who works a few computers over.

3. Nightmare fuel.

4. Diamonds don't come from coal.