Initial evidence of Online Dating impact on society (2017)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtWTUt2RZh0

which was about the social trend of "computer dating" where you would sign up for a service where you fill out a paper form, somebody transcribes that on a 3270 terminal, loads the data into a mainframe, and you get matched to somebody that way.

Tinder has pictures and is self-service but it's the same basic idea.

I've had a strange fascination (grounded on being 100-x% percent successful at love where x>0; x is not that big but how much of a gap between the ideal and reality can I accept in my one life with what time I have left?) with the alt-right culture of "incels" who speak in the register of social science and are more articulate in their resentment than the people who get mad because their posts "cancel culture" get flagged on HN.

Those people trade in "theories" about why "there ain't no making it" such as biological determinism (there is some guy with a bigger penis than you who is going to get all the attention) but the one that online dating is unfair resonates with me.

That is, when Tinder is the dominant way you get hooked up with people, you are leaving one of the most important things in your life (inclusive of "work" in the top two) in the hands of a corporation that doesn't have your best interests in mind.

Some of those "alt-right" people would hate online dating even more if they knew it encouraged miscegenation.

(Seems to me they should add "I" to that jumble of letters that starts with "LGB..." since even though incels seem to want to conform to conventional gender and sex expectations they can't seem to really do it which makes them nonconformists.)