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August 1, 2022

Cover Story

Ten Years of Re-Re-Re-Re-Downloading Tinder

Combing through a decade of swiping — and how it’s transformed dating. Including Allison P. Davis on the never-ending allure of the apps By Alison P. Davis

On the Cover: Photo-illustration by Pablo Rochat for New York Magazine. Photograph by Marcus McDonald.

features

A Mini Tinder Time Capsule

A decade of ghosting, emojis, and urban legends.

By Rachel Connolly
How I Picked My Pic

Eight app users explain, psychoanalyze, and defend ten years of profile images.

By Sangeeta Singh-Kurtz
A 1,232-Swiper Poll

The Cut asked current and former app users about their habits, their horror stories, and what they’ve learned.

By Paula Aceves
We Shared a Brunch Boy

What if ten of your past dates swapped notes?

By Kaitlin Menza
A Few Words From a Professional Profile-Pic Whisperer

“Most of my clients don’t know how to take photos.”

By Randa Sakallah
60 Days to Find a Not-Horrible Apartment

Tales from the depths of an unforgiving market.

By Emily Gould

Intelligencer

The Inside Game

Kamala Harris’s precarious position.
The Group Portrait

Shark obsessives monitoring the city’s beaches.
Encounter

Alex Jones documentarian Alex Lee Moyer.
Screen Time

What’s really driving Elon Musk?

Departments

Strategist

The Culture Pages