Tinder’s decline is not recent. The Match Group, the company that owns Tinder, announced in 2022 losses of over 10 million US dollars. Tinder’s total number of paying users fell to 15.7 million, roughly 5% compared to numbers from 2022.To counter this, Tinder has organized massive matching events in college campuses across the United States. Despite attempts to boost the brand, the value of shares of the company behind Tinder declined 16% in the third quarter of 2023. one reason for the decline in users could be rooted in economic concerns, with more and more people choosing to get rid of seemingly superfluous expenses and focus on food, housing, and services. Tinder is not the only dating app currently facing a concerning dip. Is dip attributed to the current hard economic times ?