An empty Bumble claw game became a sad metaphor for online dating

Online dating is hard. We get it. There are countless tweets about the difficulties of finding an internet soulmate, and a whole subreddit dedicated to telling the worst dating stories. We’ve even written multiple lists, articles, and opinion pieces about the struggles of finding love through an app. 

But nothing quite encapsulates the online dating experience like this photo of a sad claw game machine, branded with Bumble’s logo and colors. Writer Hannah Murphy snapped a picture of the game, emptier than all of Twitter’s dating prospects. 

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