Corny romance: ⛔️
Toxic cheating romance: ✅️

As a 21 year old man, I think what ruined dating quite a lot is the fact that a mistake is no longer just temporary. Doing something seen as "corny" or "pathetic" can now follow you around for way too long. This generation is missing the beautifulness of imperfection and patheticness sadly.

I didn't even know 'Fly me to the moon' existed. I feel like marketing may have also been a problem

Notting Hill today: Anna orders the book online. No meeting happens. They live boringly ever after. The end.

Modern dating is next to impossible to translate into a romcom. But is perfect for any satire/tragedy.

This is why Korean kdramas are taking over nowadays. Most of them involve romance as an important part of the plot (if not the main focus) and it's that old type of romance that is gradual and innocent and its still somehow fun to watch. Maybe the fact that it is foreign allows the viewer to be less judgemental about it (using their western dating culture standards).

Have you noticed in EVERY movie where you there’s a cheating scene, they ALWAYS kiss or make out for two seconds before saying “we can’t do this” 😂 they never say no before the kiss happens, they always cheat for just a little bit then pretend to be virtuous and loyal

Everyday it feels to me like humans are being replace by aliens that don't fully grasp how humanity works. Too many empty people.

my wife’s best friend thought we’d make a good couple so she arranged a meet up. The second I saw her I got butterflies in my stomach. 11 years together now

I'll be so honest. The whole locking eyes with someone and immediately liking them then ending up dating isn't even dead. It's cause people don't want to leave the house. I locked eyes with my now boyfriend at a concert, started chatting and now I'm in love with him

Smartphones ruined romance. People care more about image nowadays rather than to self deprecate a little. It's about breaking down each other's walls, but instead, people just build up more walls because cameras are everywhere. Once it's out there, it's out there

I miss a lot of movies in the theaters because you don't see the commercials for them on TV anymore, you have to actively look for trailers now

I agree with this. I hate to sound like a boomer considering I’m only 40 years old (an elder millennial), but the younger generations have killed off a lot of really enjoyable things. There is a lot of stuff I loved in my youth that simply could not exist today. Sure, some stuff from the past was invariably cringe or inappropriate, but I feel like the younger generations have gone wayyyy overboard in terms of deeming stuff ‘bad,’ ‘offensive,’ ‘inappropriate’ and it was never really like this until Gen Z. Again, there ARE things from the past that are no doubt bad or offensive or inappropriate. But they’ve really taken it exceptionally far and many things I once loved and enjoyed have now been destroyed by either too many people being offended (I also say this as a leftist, so that’s saying something if even I’m getting weary of the constant ‘I’m offended’ speech), or people thinking things are ‘cringe’ when they’re perfectly acceptable and normal human behavior, etc. Honestly I think today’s youth isn’t very normal. Kids don’t behave like kids. Teens don’t behave like teens. Everyone is messed up from things like social media. I’m sure I’m gonna get a bunch of people younger than me attacking me, but again, I’m not a boomer, I’m 40, I’m an 80s baby. But life was vastly different even when I was younger- in the very best of ways. I’m sure many of my fellow elder millennials and Gen X will understand and relate to what I am saying

I was in Tinder only for a couple of hours. Soon I realized I was looking at a catalogue and I had these criteria to swipe left or right. I can't judge whether I'd be attracted to someone through pictures only. I need to talk to them, I need to see them smile in real life, I need the full experience. I soon realized I was probably rejecting people I might not reject in real life and vice versa. Needless to say I deleted my account without talking to anyone.

I don’t blame Gen Z because they’re a product of the world around them. They’ve been radicalized online into light sociopathy by people who are older than they are, and they interact with people offline much less because of how older generations have altered the way society functions. People are poorly socialized and think it’s acceptable to be cruel to each other now. Social media has definitely deadened empathy.

I feel so blessed that I don't have social media and met my husband the old fashioned way.

Man, it's so sad, i used to love these kinds of movies.. but what ruined them is what now people might consider weird. Being too excited? "Uhm, calm down, geez." Being romantic? "Cornball." Trying to get to know someone? "You're asking too much and being weird."


I'm not saying all movies were normal. Some were absolutely insane.. but now romantic movies are just bad.

Its not just dating, gen z as a whole is massively more risk averse people are terrified of enduring the slightest bit of discomfort or embarrassment today

Ive often wondered if celebrities are ruining movies but then at the same time part of the blame is on the soulless billionaires that want to milk franchises dry and leave us with nonsensical cringe we didn’t ask for and they will think we will consume it. I love to see things evolve I want effort 🤔

Greetings from Italy. In my opinion the major problem in modern dating is that there are not as many third places like before. Most people work and then stay at home, if they want to have fun they play videogames or watch a movie on Netflix, back in the day if you wanted to do something you were forced to go outside and stay among other people. For example bumping into a complete stranger in a book store cannot happen if you read e-books on a kindle, you can meet something stranger in a cinema if you watch films on Netflix and that’s for literally everything. Meeting someone in a specific place that defines a hobby means that even if you are completely unknown to each other at least you have something in common. If the only people you interact with are your Family, your colleagues and a couple of lads from high school you are never going to find someone to love. Internet, social networks and dating apps rely on the fact that we prefer convenience rather than experience. Hopefully this situation will change because people started feeling a sort of Internet fatigue and some  “analog” meeting experiences are getting more common again like run clubs,  book clubs and so on.