Low-pressure setting: a Gooce event at Little Door Clapham
(Picture: Gooce)In September this year, as summer began to fade into autumn, Tinder turned 10. If not the original dating app — match.com might claim that, or maybe the long-forgotten kiss.com — Tinder’s launch marked the moment online dating went from a last resort to first port of call. And so as its first decade drew to a close, the expected response might have been a sense of celebration, admiration, cheerful gratitude from singletons with super-strength thumbs. Not so.
As it was, the opposite occurred: countless think-pieces appeared with heavy sighs, each wearily denouncing Tinder and its ilk. Dating app fatigue is in this season. But for childhood friends and one-time housemates Lucy McCallum and Gabi Adams, that fatigue set in way before it was du jour.
