Jonathan Badeen
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219 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard May 2025
Jonathan Badeen’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I think so. I think there's a little bit of that slot machine effect of like, you know, let me do one more. I remember back in college, Hot or Not was a thing, you know, it wasn't for dating, but it was for, you know, they added that later. But it was, you know, it was just sort of like, I'm going to, I'll stop once I get one more, when I see one more nine or something like that, you know.
So there was a little bit of that element going on. But I think even just the sort of the swipe action itself ends up sort of having an emotional connection to it, you know, where you're sort of like, oh, hell no. There is that sort of emotional connection to it.
I think that interface and everything in general, it kind of feeds into that sort of almost people-watching kind of thing that people like to do. And to me, I like to think as a Disney fan, I always think of Mary Poppins and a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down. And so that was not necessarily that quote being very cognizant of it when we were creating Tinder.
But this idea of like, look, dating can be a difficult thing and going through all of these things. And let's see if we can try to make that process work. fun, um, and sort of disguising the work. Um, and because Tinder, you know, I think compared to other platforms that pre, uh, that, uh, predated Tinder, uh, Tinder was a little bit more of a numbers game.
Uh, it was a bit more go through a whole bunch of people. Um, and you know, and, and that's going to ultimately, you know, whether, uh, swiping through a whole bunch of people and then going out on dates with a The idea is you're going to increase the chances of finding the person that's right for you. And so other platforms were a little bit more focused on diving into the person.
You'd spend more time on those and all. So we had to make something that was fun to get you through more people faster.
Well, I think some of it starts with trying to portray your best self, whether that be evaluate your photos and your profile and everything. Everything on there, evaluate it. And you'll notice a lot that people put horrible pictures up on there.
I'm not saying you have to be a model or anything like that, but horrible quality photos, things like that, and run it by your friends, preferably women, who can say either, oh, that's not a good picture of you, or like, yeah, that's not really going to be interesting. a woman.
I think bringing people in to help evaluate, I know it can feel uncomfortable sometimes to expose yourself to your friends and this side of you or whatever, but I think that's important. And I think also just it's utilizing the tools that are there. And there's a lot of tools that are in there from everything from sort of testing photos to trying to determine which of your photos is the best.
There's a lot of things for adding to your profile and all. And those little things... they can help. Somebody sees that you like something on there that they don't like, maybe it'll turn them off, but guess what? That's fine. It wasn't going to work out with them anyway. But you're giving people you're giving other people another reason to swipe right.
You know, and try to keep it a little bit lighthearted. Try to add a little bit of fun to your profiles. And then, you know, the paid features do work. I'm not saying go spend all your money on them. That's not the goal. And in fact, you know, Tinder was... We tried to make the paid feature something that it would just... break the system if everybody had it.
But if it was something that we felt that everybody would truly benefit from having it, then it shouldn't be a paid feature. Um, so the paid features we kind of saw as, as superpowers. And so they're, they're useful, but I'm not, you know, you can get by just fine without them. So if you don't need it, don't, I'm not suggesting, you know, I make no money off of it now.
So don't, I'm not, I'm not trying to push anybody to go spend all their money on Tinder or any other of the platforms. But, um, But some of them do work. So it's worth trying. And it might be worth trying. Last I read is the average online daters on three platforms. Maybe try a little something different on each platform too, which is your own A-B test.
So I think those are some ways it might help.
Absolutely. Absolutely. I mean, there's a lot of proof that they do work. That doesn't mean to say that things aren't difficult. They're difficult out the bars, too. They're difficult everywhere. And it's a matter of portraying yourself in the best way that you can.
Yeah, I think that's – a lot of people end up taking it out on dating services as well as online services in general because of – of either what, you know, the people on there or what they're doing and all. And it's, it's it is kind of what you make of it. It's not to say it's all perfect. It isn't, but it is there, there are certainly ways to have a better profile than that for sure.
Pictures are important.
Absolutely.
There's so many. I can't remember. I'll tell you, though, I think one of my favorite things, though, is that I don't even think it's on Tinder. It was a friend of mine that put on his profile that Kinj has some sort of audio thing, and he used an AI thing. I don't remember if it was Obama or somebody, basically an AI, basically vouching for him in the little voice note thing.
And it's not like nobody thinks that it's Obama or whoever it was doing it. It's just something that's a little fun and playful, and it's something that he certainly attested to. And so I thought that was...
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