A landmark study from the Institute for People Who List "The Office" As A Personality has found that 68% of gay men believe a well-crafted dating app prompt is "basically therapy" if it mentions boundaries and a favourite podcast.
Researchers surveyed 2,400 users across Sydney, Melbourne, and a regional town where the only queer venue is a bookstore that hosts speed-friending and calls it "nightlife."
"We thought vulnerability would increase when people wrote about their mothers. Instead they just got better at marketing their trauma," lead author Professor Kim Ng said.
The report recommends users replace "ask me about my gym routine" with one honest sentence about what they want. The control group that tried this reported mixed results, including one man who was unmatched for being "too intense" after disclosing he would like to be held.