Lady Gaga has addressed reports that she and fiancé Taylor Kinney have split. In a post on Instagram, the pop star confirmed that the couple is taking some time apart, but made it clear that they consider themselves to be "soulmates."
"Taylor and I have always believed we are soulmates," she shared. "Just like all couples we have ups and downs, and we have been taking a break. We are both ambitious artists, hoping to work through long-distance and complicated schedules to continue the simple love we have always shared. Please root us on. We're just like everybody else and we really love each other."
Kinney has yet to comment, but Gaga's post has been flooded with messages of support. If the Little Monsters have their way, these two will be back together in no time.
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1. Major News: ISIS claimed responsibility for Monday night’s axe attack on a German train that left more than 20 people injured.
Despite the claims, Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann told the news agency that the suspect, a 17-year-old Afghan asylum seeker, appeared to have self-radicalized, and that notes found in the unidentified teen’s bedroom did not indicate any direct connection with the group. (Read More)
2. World News: The Turkish government fired tens of thousands of public employees following last week's attempted coup.
Turkish media, in rapid-fire reports, said the Ministry of Education fired 15,200 people across the country; the Interior Ministry 8,777 employees; and Turkey’s Board of Higher Education requested the resignation of 1,577 university deans — akin to dismissing them. (Time)
3. Talking Points: The Republican Party's new platform backs the elimination of public funding for Planned Parenthood.
"We oppose the use of public funds to perform or promote abortion or to fund organizations, like Planned Parenthood, so long as they provide or refer for elective abortions or sell fetal body parts rather than provide health care," the platform reads. (Read More)
4. ICYMI: Nickelodeon will feature its first same-sex couple on the cartoon show The Loud House.
According to Variety, The Loud House will become the first Nickelodeon cartoon to feature a married same-sex couple. The network confirmed that the July 20 episode would feature same-sex parents, but has not made any further comments. Instead, Nickelodeon is simply planning to air the episode. (Read More)
Photo: Courtesy Of Nickelodeon.
5. In-The-Know: A vaginal ring with antiretroviral drugs has been found to reduce women's risk of contracting HIV by 56%.
Among women who used the ring most consistently (mostly older women), the risk was cut by 75%. Dr. Zeda Rosenberg of the International Partnership for Microbicides said in a statement that these findings suggest it "could be an important option for women who urgently need new tools to protect themselves from HIV." (Read More)
6. Hot Stuff: A record heat wave set to scorch the U.S. starts today — with temperatures over 100 degrees.
Starting in the Plains region as early as Wednesday, unusually high temps will take over the West Coast, Midwest, South, New England, and even parts of Canada. So, yeah, pretty much everywhere. The only areas that are safe are some parts of the Pacific Northwest. (Read More)
7. This Is NOT A Drill: Netflix's Making a Murderer is officially returning with new episodes.
"The new installments will take fans of the acclaimed documentary series back inside the story of convicted murderer Steven Avery and his co-defendant, Brendan Dassey, as their respective investigative and legal teams challenge their convictions..." the announcement from Netflix explains. (Read More)
8. Tech Talk: Twitter is taking steps to correct its harassment problem.
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey tweeted Ghostbusters star Leslie Jones, telling her to DM him so they could take steps to rectify the widespread and frankly disturbing abuse she received Monday. The company made it clear that it wouldn't continue to tolerate this abuse moving forward. "We know many people believe we have not done enough to curb this type of behavior on Twitter. We agree." the company said in a statement. (Read More)
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From L.A.’s club scene to Coachella’s bohemian wonderland, DJ Mija is making some serious waves. The Phoenix native first made waves in 2014 after slaying a coveted set with Skrillex at the Bonnaroo music festival.
She’s since established herself as a dynamic fixture in the electronic music world, dropping original tracks and skyrocketing to levels of notoriety often unseen by women in the dude-dominated DJ universe. Female DJs are still too far and few between. Plus, her signature sea foam hair definitely helps her stand out.
Though she says that she’s encountered sexist doubts about her talent as a producer, Mija seems unfazed by industry bias. Even her stage name represents her resilience — the nickname was first given to her by a cheating ex. She broke up with him, pocketed the catchy moniker, moved to L.A., and has been dominating ever since.
Isn't living successfully the best revenge?
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Rihanna cancelled her concert in Nice following the attack last week. But she clearly hasn’t forgotten, dedicating her performance of “Diamonds” to the victims. The Parc Olympique Lyonnais stage in Lyon was lit in the French Tricolore as she stood in front of thousands of adoring fans.
"Tonight is the night I wish I could have experienced with my fans in Nice," she said before performing the song. "This next song I want to dedicate to the people of Nice. To the people who've suffered, to the people who've been traumatized and their families. I need you to help me light this building up."
The crowd obliged, waving cell phones to fill the stadium with individual points of light. Some in the crowd began singing “La Marseillaise,” the French national anthem, according to People.
A mentally ill rape survivor was put in jail for nearly a month after she had a breakdown while testifying against her attacker, Texas news channel Click2Houston reported on Tuesday.
The twentysomething woman, who is identified only as Jenny, was a key witness in the trial of her attacker, a man convicted of violently raping her and several other women over a period of time. During testimony, the woman, who also suffers from bipolar disorder, broke down and was unable to continue. Instead, she ran from the court building and was found standing in traffic outside. She was taken to a medical center for treatment.
But when she was discharged from the hospital, she was taken to the local jail, where she stayed for the next four weeks. A mix-up in the paperwork led to correction officers mistakenly believing that she was the perpetrator, not the victim, of a sex crime. She was put into the general population, where she was she was both assaulted by another inmate and later charged with assaulting a guard.
Though federal law allows for witnesses who skip a court appearance to be jailed for contempt of court, Jenny’s lawyer told the channel that she had not committed a crime and had showed up to testify when required. Texas law allows for witnesses who are likely to not show up to trial to be held under an order called a writ of attachment.
Jenny’s lawyer, Sean Buckley, has since filed a lawsuit against the county and several authorities involved in the jailing, including the prosecutor who requested she be jailed. "This young lady should never have been put in the Harris County Jail," he told Click2Houston.
A statement shared with the news channel by the local district attorney’s office said that it could not go into details on the case, but defended the practice of holding a witness. "Witness bonds are a common tool used by prosecutors and defense attorneys when the lawyer has reason to believe that the witness will be unavailable or make him or herself unavailable for trial," the statement read.
Harris County District Attorney Devon Anderson did not immediately return Refinery29’s request for comment.
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Miley Cyrus has seemingly transitioned away from her wilder days, for good and bad. She’s no longer out partying, she’s no longer grinding on Robin Thicke, but it’s been nearly a year since she’s released new music.
Now she’s back, kind of, featuring on a new track with Zoë Kravitz’s band Lolawolf. “Teardrop” was released via British music journalist Zane Lowe’s World Record feature on Apple Music and is as trippy as we’ve come to expect from Cyrus. The song features heavy vocal echo and creates a dreamlike state not unlike driving back from a party at 2 a.m. This won't be the party song of the summer, but it will be something you can listen to while you float in the pool. And often that's more or less all we want out of life.
Cyrus and Lolawolf have collaborated in the past, with Cyrus featuring in the video for “Bitch.” Lolawolf, which features Kravitz and Jimmy Giannopolous, also joined Cyrus during the Australian leg of her Bangerz tour.
Elliot, Rami Malek’s Mr. Robot hacker hero, is addicted to morphine. Or at least he was in season one, though he’s been clean through the season two premiere. So, naturally, Malek had to snort a lot of morphine on camera.
The creators didn’t just lay out fat lines of painkillers. Besides the obvious legal implications, it seems hard to act when you’re doing take after take of mind-numbing drugs designed to make you care so little about life that you forget you’re in pain. So the solution was simple: Snort Vitamin B, the industry standard for powdered drugs. But even that gets tiring after a while.
What were they to do? Malek explained their clever solution during an appearance on Late Night with Seth Meyers.
"After a while I said, 'Look this is just killing me. Can we do something about it?' So they built me this vacuum that goes down my sleeve," Malek told Meyers.
The result was at least one hilarious prank on the Mr. Robot crew. Watch below for that and for the weird effect the show has had on its Chinatown location.
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It was only a matter of time before a Democratic politician would follow suit. So Rep E.B. Johnson ’s intern Audra Jackson delivered the response. Let’s see if you can spot the differences in the two photos.
A photo posted by Speaker Paul Ryan (@speakerryan) on
We can’t tell any difference at all. Oh, besides the fact that there are actual Black and brown people in the Democratic selfie. You know, like in America? Paul Ryan couldn’t even get a Key & Peele Black Republican into the photo. He might have done well to ask Keegan-Michael Key himself.
Democratic Reps. Xavier Becerra and Barbara Lee posted their own mini-versions of these selfies this week, again highlighting the diversity of the real America. Could any Republican politician do the same?
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As much as you saw of Chris Hemsworth in the new Ghosbusters, his biggest scene was actually left on the cutting room floor.
According to Vulture, director Paul Feig originally shot a choreographed dance number with Hemsworth to The Bee Gees' "You Should Be Dancing." After test audiences had mixed reactions to the scene, Feig decided to cut it, saying it was "the biggest decision of my life,"
Lucky for all of us, Feig was able to keep the scene of Hemsworth strutting his stuff in the film — seriously, he has some moves — by moving it to the end credits, alongside other deleted scenes.
Feig also said, "When the extended cut comes out on DVD, we restored the full scene into the body of the movie, with effects. So you will be able to see it in the movie.”
This impromptu move of the scene though was apparently done at a pretty big cost. The Hollywood Reporter reported that the cut sequence "cost in the low seven figures and took up two full days of shooting," according to a source on the film.
A rep for Sony Picture denied the amount though, telling THR, "You should check your source, the cost is absolutely wrong, completely overinflated."
Ghostbusters made $46 million in its opening weekend, coming in second at the box office behind The Secret Life Of Pets.
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The past 36 hours has given birth to an unprecedented beauty battle that has not only played out in the public eye, but rivals this week’s Kim Kardashian West and Taylor Swift feud. The story finds cosmetics entrepreneurs Kat Von D and Jeffree Star embroiled in a falling out that came to light Tuesday morning. Von D posted a slashed-through image of Star, alleging his “inappropriate behavior (including, promoting drug use, racism, and bullying),” and detailed her plans to drop a lip color named after him from her line, while generally disassociating herself from Star and his namesake brand.
Von D followed the statement with a confessional video, in which she claims Jeffree Star Cosmetics did not pay a graphic designer who is a friend of hers for work. Star voiced an ominous response on Twitter and Snapchat, saying, “There are two sides to every story. The truth will come out later today.”
The blow-by-blow action and timeline of the fallout is outlined here (and it’s worth checking out). But now, we've got the latest chapter in the saga. Star has released his own video response in which he lobs accusations in Von D's direction (dragging other beauty brands into the fray, too), just as she did to him in her video.
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Ieshia Evans has given us our Tiananmen Square tank photo of the modern civil rights movement. The Black woman from Brooklyn stepped onto the scene of a July 9 protest in Baton Rouge, LA and instantly into history. Her poise when confronted with a line of armed and armored police is instantly iconic, the calm of a woman that knows she is about to be arrested for the best of causes.
She spoke with VICE News about the photo, saying that she stepped out onto the street when one of the officers raised his gun into the ready position.
"They were like soul-less soldiers," she tells VICE. "They were heavily armed, heavily padded down, suited and booted and they looked like they were ready for war."
But she says she didn’t feel fear. Instead, she went out into the street to try to set a good example for her son.
"The peace needs to be disturbed in order for our voice to be heard," Evans tells VICE. "Even medically, if something ails you, if you have a pain, if you sit there in silence you could potentially bleed internally and bleed out. So by sitting in silence you're doing the most damage."
Lohan is being criticized for a tone-deaf Instagram post she dedicated to the people of Turkey and Nice earlier this week.
"If history were to be folded, where would we put the crease?" the Mean Girls star wrote as the caption to a photo that featured her in bed wearing silk pajamas. "Pray for the ones we lose everyday and appreciate every breathe you, we,🏻 all🏻 take."
A photo posted by Lindsay Lohan (@lindsaylohan) on
Lohan ends the caption with Nice and Turkey hashtags, before writing, "#turnup and do something (goodnight and sleep with an idea for the future)."
While Lohan may have had good intentions with her post, for many the seductive boudoir photo doesn't seem to correspond with the message.
As Page Six reported, her followers quickly responded to the photo, which currently has over 61 thousand likes. One user wrote, “You should be extremely ashamed of yourself because you are a disgrace.”
Another wrote,"Your words are touching however, I find it to loss credibility with it followed by a picture of you sexualizing yourself."
Later, Lohan posted another photo, this one of her in the ocean hugging a man, in defense of her previous post.
"The perfect silence #love," she wrote. "Try to think about the last thing I put on my page.. The words are stronger than the picture you see."
A photo posted by Lindsay Lohan (@lindsaylohan) on
Lohan's questionable tribute follows an Instagram photo of Barton sitting on a yacht that was meant to honor Alton Sterling, who was killed by Baton Rouge police earlier this month. Barton would later apologize for the post.
"I’m human, I’m not perfect, and I’m sorry if my Instagram post went out of context,” Barton wrote. “I didn’t mean to offend anyone.”
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Peter Copping, the creative director at Oscar de la Renta, announced that he is leaving the company after less than two years.
According to The New York Times, Copping announced he was leaving due to “personal circumstances [that] require me to return to Europe."
The British-born Copping said, "I have loved my time in New York where I hope to return at some point in the future.”
The company's CEO, Alex Bolen said in a statement that "we wish Peter well in his future endeavors," but stressed that company would go on without him.
"We have always been in the business of creating beautiful clothes, and two of our greatest assets are our design studio and atelier," Bolen said. "Our team will continue to work on next season’s collection with a keen focus on the level of sophistication and craftsmanship that are the hallmarks of the house."
Copping — who previously worked for Nina Ricci in Paris and Marc Jacobs at Louis Vuitton — was the only designer besides Oscar de la Renta to head up the family-run brand. He was handpicked by de la Renta for the job and joined the brand after the designer's death in 2014,
A replacement has yet to be announced for Copping. But, the label will show its spring 2017 show on Sept. 12 as previously scheduled. It will be designed by an in-house team.
This is not the only shakeup at a major fashion house this year. The creative directors of Yves Saint Laurent, Balenciaga, Dior, Lanvin and Tod’s have all announced their departures.
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The convention, taking place in Philadelphia from July 25 to 28, will include other celebrity speakers, including America Ferrera and Lena Dunham, who will be speaking together. Ferrera wrote on Instagram that she's "honored" to be speaking in support of Clinton. Dunham joked in her own post, "We promise not to copy off Michelle Obama's homework, dreamy as she is."
Demi Lovato tweeted a gif of Clinton to let her followers know she was going to the Convention, too. According to Time, the "Confident" singer will be joined by Debra Messing, Eva Longoria, and Fergie, who will headline a benefit show in Philly during the convention.
Other speakers at the DNC include first lady Michelle Obama, Bernie Sanders, Bill Clinton, Chelsea Clinton, Vice President Joe Biden, and President Barack Obama.
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Benanti says that the call came in Tuesday morning. She had been attending her grandma’s 92nd birthday in Delaware but rushed back to New York to rehearse for the bit. The craziest thing: She had never heard Melania speak before Monday night.
“So on the train back to New York, I studied her voice and studied her movements, much to the confusion of the man sitting next to me on the train,” she tells Vulture. “Over and over again and like zooming in on her mouth to see how her mouth moved. It was all very creepy.”
Well, it worked.
Check out Benanti’s Melania Trump impression below.
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While Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump was trying to build bridges with his party in Cleveland, out in Los Angeles, someone else built a wall around his Walk Of Fame star.
According to CBS Los Angeles, the mini-wall was the work of L.A. street artist Plastic Jesus. The artist was making a statement about Trump's plan to build a wall on the Mexico border.
On Instagram, Plastic Jesus posted a photo of the star and its new concrete wall, which is six inches high and features barbed wire and “Keep Out” signs.
"The unofficial addition to the iconic star appeared early Tuesday afternoon," the caption read, "to the amusement of onlookers."
A photo posted by Plastic Jesus - Official (@plasticjesus) on
The wall showed up the same day that Trump officially became the presidential nominee of the Republican party.
Plastic Jesus previously designed "No Trump Anytime" signs that he urged his Instagram followers to print out and post anywhere. "Maybe make some to stick of Cleveland this week!" he wrote. "Spread the love!"
The British-born street artist is best known as the guy behind the “No Kardashian Parking Anytime” signs that were posted around L.A. last year.
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The remaining members of FSociety are being hunted. But first, a flashback. If you wondered how they ended up in Coney Island, Mobley and Romero walk us through the process, revealing the space has a history of owners who die violent deaths. Romero was cell mates with the person who owns it now, and feels it is the "nexus of all evil in the universe." Rather than burning it down, as he promised, Romero is trying to rent it to Mobley. Mobley talks him into joining FSociety instead and that's how you foreshadow in a flashback.
Over the credits, as Elliot speaks to us, we hear Dusty Springfield's "You Don't Have To Say You Love Me" playing. The music is from an Italian song that Dusty once heard and loved so much that she cried. In a bid to make her own English version of it, two songwriters lifted the music and made up English lyrics, rather than translating the Italian lyrics. It's a story of two songs.
We rejoin Elliot on the phone with Tyrell, just like he demanded. Mr. Robot insists he’s delivered the most wanted man in America, but Elliot doesn’t trust it. Control…is an illusion? Elliot intends to keep control, no matter what. He O.D.s on Adderall in an attempt to shut out Mr. Robot. The war for control finds Mr. Robot pushing Elliot's brain buttons to imagine he's been kidnapped by men in black who feed him cement. After he comes to, barfing up the Adderall he took, to Mr. Robot shouting at him, he desperately scrapes the pills out of his own puke to take them again. Staying high on 200mgs of the drug a day keeps him at bay, but by day six of no sleep, Elliot is slipping into what he calls a fatal error. His downward spiral climaxes when he goes full McMurphy from One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest in group therapy on a rant against the “metastasizing mind words” we call religion.
Apparently, Angela has been promoted. She meets Evil Corp CEO Price about that Bloomberg interview she was hustling to set up last week, they argue, and he asks her to dinner at a dive bar turned best restaurant in the city. It's a ham-fisted metaphor for her life right now but Price knows what he's doing when he tells her she's right and lets her win the battle over a TV appearance. When we see her again, she's gone full American Psycho, from the white walls of her apartment to the dinner in a fashionable restaurant and the light disco playing in the background which comes to a quick halt when she sees the table of old white men she’ll be joining. The restaurant is empty and they have to pay up front for the meal “because of the situation.” She has a pleasant dinner with Price and two other Evil Corp execs, both family men who use the company's resources to help charities and do non-profit work, Price tells her. They're also men who helped cover up her mother's death. Price gives her enough proof of their side gig doing some "nasty insider trading" and encourages her to destroy them. He’s making her choose her revenge or their lives. Or he’s making her do his dirty work. Either way, she’s living a moral gray area and he’s teaching her to navigate it.
The big question in this episode is: who is Ray? He has diabetes and talks to his dead wife. He's some kind of kingpin with digital proficiency. He's making inroads to befriending Elliot because he needs him to pull off a hack. His scenes are clearly the lynchpin to the current theory floating around that Elliot is in a prison or a psych ward, but who is in in the world? A counselor? A guard? A man running the show? Is he a patient? Will Elliot have to cede control to Mr. Robot to find out Ray's true nature?
Back to FSociety. Mobley finds Romero's dead body at his mother's house. He meets with Darlene (on a subway where a panhandler is singing a beautiful Italian song, a quiet nod to the Dusty moment earlier), and Trenton, to debate who is after them. He suspects the Dark Army and thinks Elliot is the one leading them to FSociety. Darlene takes off to talk to her brother and Mobley tells Trenton, “I don’t trust her, or her crazy ass brother…They just committed the crime of the century and they’re trying to cover their tracks. Right now, we’re the tracks.”
What he's not thinking about are the very real tracks they've been leaving, which brings us to FBI agent Dominique. When we first see her in this episode, she s living every New Yorker’s life: watching Billion Dollar Listing New York while reading the New York Times on her mobile phone and consulting with Alexa. She’s shotgunning coffee while doing her hair and makeup to head into the office, with The Highwaymen’s “Highwaymen” playing in the background, a song written about the four reincarnated souls of a man. Since we hear the song from the start, getting all of the Willie verse and a little of the Kristofferson verse, we’re must know that we are only at the beginning of her journey. She's called to the scene of Romero's death because he has a list of FBI agents that includes her name and something about it keeps bothering her. She goes back to visit his mother and, while getting the old lady a glass of water from a box of packed dishes, discovers that some of the paper used for wrapping are printouts of code. As she (illegally) pokes further, she discovers a flyer for The End of the World party from the end of last season. She visits the address and discovers the F Society sign out front. Now, let's flashback ourselves, to the opening flashback, when Mobley asks Romero, "What happened to the 'u' and the 'n'?" Romero replies, "Oh that, that’s a story for another time."
The story is far from over, friends.
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Ted Cruz just delivered an address at the Republican National Convention — and he got booed.
The reason? He didn't endorse Donald Trump.
The Texas senator and former presidential hopeful's failure to throw his support behind the newly minted GOP nominee was met with loud boos and jeers from the thousands of delegates and guests who filled Cleveland's Quicken Loans Arena for night three of the RNC.
Cruz was one of the last candidates standing in a long and bitter primary fight that once saw more than a dozen Republicans fighting for the party's nomination. Trump officially clinched the nod on Tuesday, when delegates from across the country gave him the support he needed to become the GOP's candidate on the November ballot.
On Wednesday, Cruz gave a primetime address that many observers thought sounded a lot like a guy planning to run for president again. The Texas Republican congratulated Trump on the honor of winning the nomination and urged all listening, "please don't stay home in November." But he stopped short of giving his formal rival his formal backing.
"If you love our country, and love your children as much as I know that you do, stand and speak and vote your conscience, vote for candidates up and down the ticket who you trust to defend our freedom and to be faithful to the Constitution," Cruz said.
Boos echoed out inside the arena as well as in an outside plaza, where dozens more Republicans were gathered to watch the speeches via livestream. When the crowd broke into chants of "We Want Trump," Cruz simply paused and gave a nod to Trump's home state.
"I appreciate the enthusiasm of the New York delegation," he said.
Trump took to Twitter to dismiss Cruz's move as "no big deal."
Wow, Ted Cruz got booed off the stage, didn't honor the pledge! I saw his speech two hours early but let him speak anyway. No big deal!
It's worth noting that there doesn't appear to be much love lost between the two Republicans. Cruz once called Trump "amoral," a "pathological liar," and a "narcissist at a level that I don't think this country has ever seen." Trump frequently trolled his opponent as "Lyin' Ted" on Twitter.
Cruz wasn't the only former primary competitor to speak at the RNC. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker were also given slots to address the crowd. Both have endorsed Trump.
There are so many celebrity beefs underway right now, you'd think the gossip mags would be content to sit back and watch. But according to Chrissy Teigen, one magazine can't help trying to stir up more drama.
The Lip Sync Battle star took to Twitter last night to discredit a tabloid rumor claiming that she and husband John Legend are feuding with Kate Upton and her fiancé, Justin Verlander. According to the article, Legend "can't stand being around Justin" and it's soured their partners' friendship.
Teigen wasted no time in nipping that one in the bud.
"We have never even all actually hung out together," she added. "It is just so, so random and such a useless lie. Usually a story is at least 1% true."
When something is this made up and random, I believe that could be completely true lol https://t.co/1Q7pQMPI8h
Dating apps that only offer you the chance to make a romantic match are a thing of the past. Bumble wants to help you make friends and career connections, for example. Now, Tinder is bringing that feature to the United States with Tinder Social.
Tinder Social has a leg up over one-on-one friend-making channels, such as Bumble BFF, because it's an easier way to get a whole crew of existing and new friends together for a night out.
To get started, download or update Tinder, then go to your Settings and opt-in to using Tinder Social. When you unlock the friend-finding channel, other friends on Tinder won't see that you are also using the app, unless you want them to. Next, create a group by choosing one to three of your Facebook friends who have also opted in.
After that, it gets fun. You can assign a status to your group about what you want to do together. ("Anyone up for happy hour?") Another group can express interest in your status, and once at least one member of each group has swiped right on the other, your groups are matched. You can chat within the app and make plans to go out together.
Photo: Courtesy Tinder.
There is a time limit on meeting up — the match will expire at noon the following day — emphasizing that Tinder sees Tinder Social as a way to make last-minute evening plans rather than a long, back-and-forth, never-ending on-screen conversation between semi-strangers.
“Tinder Social is designed to make it as easy as possible to plan your night, get out into the real world, and meet new people," Sean Rad, CEO and cofounder of Tinder, said in a press release.
Of course, Tinder Social groups could easily end up just being a double or triple date (and much of the app's promotional materials suggest that this is an intended goal). But for anyone who's just looking for a fun crew to go out with on a Friday night, this is definitely worth a try. We will, for once, actively encourage our friends to download the app.
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