Run Clubs Are the New Dating Apps

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in New York City, 31-year-old Jeniea Howard decided to shake it up since the just weren’t working for her anymore. It’s a common sentiment among Gen Z and Millennial singles, one which Howard blames on the COVID-19 pandemic.

In her mind, years of during lockdown had led to a stagnation that left her feeling frustrated and yearning for something different.“We’re in a little bit of a weird situation now where humans are desperate for connection and desperate to meet up, but we sort of lost our social skills in terms of meeting someone in real life,” she says.So, Howard laced up her and headed out to around the city with hundreds of other singles hoping to meet their match.This content can also be viewed on the site it from.Over the past year, there’s been a lot of chatter online about how dating is broken.

An entire generation has grown up primarily seeking a partner by swiping through endless seas of interchangeable dating apps, and it’s becoming clear that, for many, it isn’t working.

Recently, spoke to several women who had gone viral for posting videos of themselves crying over the state of their romantic lives, and the app Bumble received huge backlash for its ad campaign promoting in apparent response to a trend of women who said they were throwing in the towel (the company laid off more than earlier this year after waning profits).As headlines proliferated about just how bad it is out there, another type of began to go viral on social media.