Why do you use an exclusive dating app?

Why'd You Push That Button?

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Society & Culture, Arts, Technology, Design

4.4 • 683 Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2019

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

It’s the season finale of Why’d You Push That Button, and this week, hosts Ashley Carman and Kaitlyn Tiffany discuss exclusive dating apps. Unlike Tinder, Facebook Dating, Hinge, or most other dating apps, these exclusive versions require users to apply and then only approve a select group. The most popular exclusive dating apps include Raya and The League. For this episode, Ashley and Kaitlyn want to know why people spend time applying to these services, and why these apps were created. To find out, Ashley talks to her internet pal Lina about her experiences on Raya. Then Kaitlyn talks to her friend Paul about his Raya rejection and eventual success on The League. Finally, the two of them come back together to interview The League’s founder and CEO Amanda Bradford about why she made the app and why she thinks it’s essential. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	So have you used one of those exclusive dating apps?
0:04.0	I heard about the league a couple years ago when I wanted to join, but then the wait list was like really long and I was like, no thank you.
0:11.0	And I thought it would be like the super pretentious thing where it was like really smart and beautiful people.
0:16.0	But then when I got onto the app and then when I got invited to these like events, I realized they're very
0:22.4	smart people, maybe not objectively attractive. I think the founders want them to be elitist,
0:30.3	but if you people on your app aren't visually appealing, I'm not really sure if you can be an alitist.
0:37.0	Hello, and welcome to Why'd You Push That
0:40.1	That Button, a show where Caitlin Tiffany and Ashley Carmen, that's me, talk about all the decisions. Technology
0:47.4	forces us to make. Today is a sad day, everyone. It is sad. Even though I don't sound that sad, it is sad.
0:54.1	It is our season finale. I figured we're going out on a strong everyone. It is sad. Even though I don't sound that sad, it is sad. It is our season finale.
0:55.8	I figured we're going out on a strong note. This is right in our subject area, our favorite thing
1:00.7	to talk about dating apps. Girl talk, yeah. Dating apps, the question is, why do you use an exclusive
1:08.4	dating app? What is an exclusive dating app? So, as you all know, there's many
1:13.6	dating apps in this world. There's a dating app for everyone in everything in every interest area
1:17.2	you possibly imagine. The classic example is there's a dating app specifically for farmers.
1:22.4	There are also dating apps that have now differentiated themselves by being elite or exclusive.
1:28.8	The popular ones that come to mind are the league, which differentiates itself by being for people who have college
1:34.1	educations. And job. You have to apply using your LinkedIn, correct? Yeah. Then there's Raya,
1:40.0	which is even more exclusive and is for the creative class. And you have to apply using your Instagram.
1:46.1	And then actually, Tinder, unclear if this still exists,
1:49.0	it was mentioned in a TechCrunch article once,
1:51.1	and no one has ever told me if it's real,
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