Hater: The Dating App That Helps You Find Your Match Based On The Things You Hate
It’s 5 years since the release of the Tinder dating app, which changed the dating game forever. While Tinder's matchmaking is pretty much based on users judging someone by their pictures alone, a new app launched earlier this year is approaching the challenge of matchmaking with a new concept. The app’s name is “Hater” and its slogan is “Meet Someone Who Hates the Same Stuff.”
The app is based on the well-established swipe concept and comes with 3,000 hand-selected topics that users can hate (swipe left) or love (swipe right). After swiping through for a bit, the app then builds matches based on the amount of shared dislikes and other factors such as your location.
Aside from being a fun and fresh approach, the idea behind it is simple, yet powerful: studies have indeed proposed that sharing a negative attitude about things or others is in fact effective in promoting closeness between people. To be understood in deeply disliking something or someone can be a bonding experience and often are the things we passionately dislike defining us as much as the things we are passionate about. Therefore searching for love through shared dislikes is not event that far-fetched as it might appear at first.
Whether it’s a mutual dislike for fidget spinners, traffic jam, alarm clocks, snoring, doing dishes, low batteries, folding shirts, small talk, waiting in queues, hashtags, dentists, vegetables, or Donald Trump, the fact that you and somebody else roll your eyes in unison at the exactly same things means as much as mutual likes, it can also mean that you and your match can carry out joint escape plans whenever someone suggests mutually disliked things or activities.
The app has a considerable following in its hometown New York, but is growing globally. It is available for IOS and an Android version is due to be release soon.
