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Clara is a full-time digital nomad writing about culture, food, and music. Her work has been featured in publications such as Refinery29, the Austin Chronicle, USA Today, and NiceKicks. She aims to be quicker on her feet than Borat&#8217;s lawyers.

Clara Wang

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‘I admire real moms’: Hinge date goes off on woman for calling herself ‘dog mom’ in viral TikTok

tiktoker in front of a list of rules from her ex

‘I wish I was joking’: TikToker shares abusive ex-boyfriend’s strict rules for her

Alexandra Samuels is a national political reporter and contributor to the Daily Dot, where she started as an intern covering politics in the summer of 2016. She enjoys all things Marvel, keeping up with the latest TikTok trends, long walks with her pup, and reading murder-mystery novels.

Alexandra Samuels

‘Do y’all think he’ll be mad’: TikToker says her boyfriend doesn’t know she’s his landlord, dividing viewers

Landis Wiedner is a Chicago-based writer and editor for Living Well With Epilepsy. She has written for NBCThink, the Independent, Wired and is finishing her funny memoir, &#8220;My Brain Tumor’s Boyfriend.&#8221;

Landis Wiedner

woman goes out into storm with umbrella, "when you accidentally go on a first date in a hurricane because you feel bad canceling last minute and he wants to go, remnants of hurricane ida

‘No man on Earth has ever made a woman this wet’: TikToker goes on first date despite major flooding

Brooke Sjoberg is a freelance writer who graduated with her Bachelors in Journalism from the University of Texas at Austin in 2020.

Brooke Sjoberg

‘I am ghosting’: Woman shares video of ‘red flag’ when date is dropping her off at home

Tricia Crimmins is a former Senior Reporter on the politics and tech team covering discrimination, identity, and the 2024 election.

Tricia Crimmins

After a TikTok filter says her boyfriend was "absolutely definitely" cheating on her, Keyana Both found out he was.

‘You could see the panic in his eyes’: TikTok filter predicts girl’s boyfriend is cheating on her—he actually is

woman's date filmed flirting with their waitress

Woman’s date flirts with waitress right in front of her in viral TikTok

Laiken Neumann is a former Trending news editor based in Austin, Texas.

Laiken Neumann

Tinder Live host Lane Moore dives back into the messy world of post-pandemic dating apps

Nahila Bonfiglio reports on geek culture and gaming. Her work has also appeared on KUT&#8217;s Texas Standard (Austin), KPAC-FM (San Antonio), and the Daily Texan.

Nahila Bonfiglio

TikToker dresses up as goth witch to spite Tinder date

Tinder match tells woman not to show up to date looking like a ‘goth witch’—so she does just that (updated)

Samira Sadeque is a New York-based journalist reporting on immigration and mental health, and will sometimes write about memes and dinosaurs too. Her work also appears in Reuters, NPR, and NBC among other publications. She graduated from Columbia Journalism School, and her work has been nominated for SAJA awards.

Samira Sadeque

40% of sugar babies on SeekingArrangement use money for tuition, report says

A former New York Teaching Fellow, her writing has been featured in Reductress, Rolling Stone, Mic, Someecards, and more.

Nayomi Reghay

‘Love is Quarantine’ Instagram account brings Netflix experiment to the even smaller screen

Allyson Waller is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and has written for other publications such as the New York Times and the Miami Herald. Outside of the journalism world, some of her joys include delving into book recommendations from TikTok, listening to pop culture podcasts, and playing with her dog, Theo.

Allyson Waller

Parody website imagines a world where ‘Amazon Dating’ exists (updated)

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Swipe This! I found out he’s cheating on his girlfriend. Should I tell her?

Swipe This! He hasn’t texted me back. Should I text him again?

Tiffany Kelly was the culture editor at Daily Dot. Previously, she worked at Ars Technica and Wired. Her writing has appeared in several other print and online publications, including the Los Angeles Times, Popular Mechanics, and GQ.

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