Sydney Bradley
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Yeah.
And so and then she also went on to say, is Partyful pivoting to becoming a dating app?
No, Partyful has always been a dating app.
I mean, there's always going to be monetization down the road for any social media app.
I think we've learned that and we're used to it.
I did ask Partyful if this was going to be monetized and they didn't give me, they didn't say it was going to be monetized.
I could see, however, a future in which you have to pay a little bit extra to get like 15 crushes or if you want to maybe be
match with someone directly.
I could see that being something that they could use down the line, but it's not so clear exactly what Partyful wants to do with this in terms of its bigger business picture.
I mean, I think there's always going to be a pendulum swinging of we want to have old and new at the same time.
I think across the board in a lot of internet socializing, we want in-person things.
There's this whole analog boom right now.
There's a big talk about getting offline and spending.
Offline IRL is a new luxury.
And I think that trickles into dating as well, where we want...
To have more tangible ways of meeting people, the meet queue is such a lost art and everyone wants it.
Like no one wants to say anymore that they met on Hinge.
No.
It's sort of like an eye roll.
But people want a meet queue.