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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

Student matches with former history teacher

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TikToker says she matched with 8th-grade history teacher on Tinder

Kahron Spearman is a journalist, copywriter, and host of “Discovery with Kahron Spearman” on KAZI 88.7.

Kahron Spearman

Woman texts another woman a picture of her cheating husband's Tinder profile.

‘Doing God’s work’: TikToker saw a married man on Tinder looking to cheat on his disabled wife—and then she found his wife

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

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)

Trinady Joslin is a former editorial intern for the Daily Dot and graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a journalism degree. She was previously the Life and Arts Editor at the Daily Texan and an intern at Austin Woman Magazine.

Trinady Joslin

Meet the TikTok user who started rating #fishboys on their Tinder profiles

Tiffanie Drayton is a geek culture and lifestyle reporter whose work covers everything from gender and race to anime and Xbox. Her work has appeared in Complex, Salon, Marie Claire, and elsewhere.

Tiffanie Drayton

Tinder will stop banning people for raising money for Black Lives Matter

Tinder, OkCupid don’t screen for sexual predators

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

2 panel image of a person using the Tinder app and a group of people standing in front of a height chart.

Men are throwing tantrums over Tinder’s height verification joke

Ana Valens is a reporter specializing in online queer communities, marginalized identities, and adult content creation. Her work has appeared at Vice, Vox, Truthout, Bitch Media, Kill Screen, Rolling Stone, and the Toast. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, and spends her free time developing queer adult games.

Ana Valens

Tinder user goes viral for telling cop ‘I don’t speak pig’

Stacey Ritzen is a reporter and editor based in West Philadelphia with over 10 years&#8217; experience covering pop culture, web culture, entertainment, and news. You can follow her on Twitter @staceyritzen.

Stacey Ritzen

Woman duped on Tinder inadvertently inspires Twitter meme

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

Nayomi Reghay

Swipe This! Am I foolish to hold out for a guy who just updated his Tinder pics?

Meet ‘Tinda Finger,’ the lazy bro’s gadget that swipes right every time

Christine Friar is a writer and editor in New York who focuses on streaming entertainment and internet culture. Her work has appeared in the Awl, the Fader, New York Magazine, Paper Magazine, Vogue, Elle, and more.

Christine Friar

The Tinder-inspired romantic drama you’ve been waiting for is coming to Netflix

Samantha Grasso is a former IRL staff writer for the Daily Dot with a reporting emphasis on immigration. Her work has appeared on AJ+, Vox, Splinter, Los Angeles Magazine, and Austin Monthly.

Samantha Grasso

A firefighter crew rescues Liam Smyth's Tinder date from two windows she became trapped between while retrieving a poop she tried to throw away.

Woman gets stuck in Tinder date’s window after fetching a poop she tried to throw out

Christina Bonnington is a tech reporter who specializes in consumer gadgets, apps, and the trends shaping the technology industry. Her work has also appeared in Gizmodo, Wired, Refinery29, Slate, Bicycling, and Outside Magazine. She is based in the San Francisco Bay Area and has a background in electrical engineering.

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