Dating App Fatigue Has Created a Market for Scarcity and Slowness

By Social Storytellers Collective News Desk

April 30, 2026

This started as a reflection on dating—but it’s really about systems.

When people say they’re “burned out” on dating apps, what they’re describing is what happens when platform logic runs too long in a space it was never designed for.

I unpacked it here:

Dating App Fatigue Has Created a Market for Scarcity and Slowness