Time to add a new platform to your Netflix, Stan and soon-to-be Disney+ and Apple TV subscriptions because Tinder is going from dating app to streaming service.
According to Variety, Tinder will be releasing its own original series in October, making it the dating app’s first content offering.
Set during an impending apocalypse – presumably due to an overwhelming amount of streaming services – this new untitled six-episode series will ask the big question, “Who would you spend your last night alive with?”, and will be released for viewing on the app.
So how exactly does this work exactly since all you do on Tinder is swipe left or right?
Well the series will use a “choose-your-own-adventure” format and you’ll swipe left or right to advance the two-hour plot however you want it.
If you’re wondering why Tinder is pivoting so wildly into the content game, it’s all to help you single folk out there get laid rather than the love of making shows. Well, sort of.
The folks behind the dating app clearly feel that the old “matching people based on interests” thing is a little old and so they’ve decided to spice things up a bit. Variety reports that Tinder intend to “create an algorithm based on how its users make decisions within the series, and then match them with romantic interests based on those choices.”
So not only do you have to take your choices seriously as you watch this series but going back and checking out all other potential endings could screw your chances of matching with someone who might be the one.
Just another layer of stress to the already stressful game that is dating.
Now Variety reports that this Tinder original series will air first on the app but producers are looking into possibly releasing it onto other streaming platforms later on so everyone can have a go at this choose-your-own-adventure story without worry about the dating aspect of it.
Don’t be surprised if this turns up on Netflix considering they already have the capability to do the choose-your-own-adventure stuff.
It remains to be seen how this all pans out but if this works as intended, at least you can legit use the icebreaker “so how would you survive a zombie apocalypse?” when meeting with a Tinder match and not have it be overly too weird.