No One Is Using Bumble...
Video Overview & Insights
Bumble was once one of the biggest success stories in tech. It grew to 58 million users, generated over a billion dollars in revenue, and reached a staggering $14 billion valuation after its IPO. Today, the stock is down roughly 95%. So what went wrong? The story starts with founder Whitney Wolfe Herd, who helped build Tinder before leaving the company and launching Bumble with a simple but powerful idea: women make the first move. That one feature helped Bumble stand out in a crowded market and fueled years of explosive growth. But after going public in 2021, things began to change. Major shareholders started cashing out, growth slowed, and the entire online dating industry entered a downturn. Downloads fell, younger users became less interested in dating apps, and burnout started spreading across nearly every platform. Bumble's response only made things more complicated. New leadership introduced major changes, including features that moved the app closer to Tinder and weakened the very identity that made Bumble unique in the first place. Users noticed, and many weren't happy. Now, with declining revenue, layoffs, and growing competition from Hinge, Bumble is attempting another reinvention. This time the company is betting on AI matchmaking instead of endless swiping. Can Bumble pull off a turnaround, or is this another example of a tech company losing sight of what made it successful? This is the rise, fall, and uncertain future of Bumble.
It's womEn, not woman, when referring to women in general
Timestamps:
0:00 - Bumble Loses 95%
Women ruined dating
0:32 - Lawsuit To $14 Billion
4:28 - The Exit
He sounds like a native English speaker, so why is he saying woman for women?
8:33 - Falling Further
Sources: https://pastebin.com/x530awf7
Women are using it. Men are not your fools for profit. Catfished đ
More User Perspectives
dating apps + meToo = destruction of men.
@mmm-ie5wsIâm a pretty average looking guy but I had the most success on bumble. More so than any other app. For a time, I was averaging about 2-5 dates a month but they didnât all pan out or lead to a follow up date. Women messaging first really was a great idea, but then you realise that they now have to choose from hundreds of men and decide who to message back. If you get a message, thatâs already a really good sign that they chose you for a reason soo, try and make it work. Even a â Hi â is good enough because 78 other men didnât get that. Also, organising a date sooner rather than later is key.
@NimaiNunezI once watched my older sister scrolling through dating apps swiping left on every guy, even some of the most chad looking dudes. In the end, she found love in a 5"6 low income earning dude who worked in parks and wildlife with her. Not even a super handsome dude at all. Meeting people in real life is a whole different ball game. Dating apps are just neuron activation.
@seanrogers3389Blackstone backed...Trash backing trash. Everyone make sure your investments are NOT with Blackstone
@thomasnew8606Met my wife at work, despite months of dating apps and short relationships
@EldenGainzThe first woman I matched with on bumble I married. We just had our first kid
@noahchristian1354Women message first but men can just say they are trans lesbian and message first đ¤Śââď¸
@awestuvidbumble hinge tinder all dogshit
@tk1576Why do all female billionaires fail?
@SH-ly1uyThe men will keep every lightbulb on in our company. But we will cater to women.... My, my, my. I have no earthly idea why that plan didn't work!
@robertestellIâm an Indian man in the US, I never felt worse about myself after using bumble.
@famguy218this app is utter trash
that's what happened
gen-z moved to OF...
@woocash3kI think a lot of guys are realizing there's much more to do than chase and jester for women who probably hate you
@JohnnyStrikesHate this ai voice
@beerserkerDating apps have done nothing more than over inflate womenâs opinions of themselves.
@daviddawson1642You seem to have difficulty pronouncing "women" and keep saying "woman"
@alr68Hypergomy and human nature destroyed these apps.
@umichaa00I met my now GF and the mother of my child on Tinder in 2016 - I met a few different women on that app but I NEVER got messaged first after matching đ so an app that hetero women messaging forst always struck me as kind of a long shot.
@rhidiandavies1991Thats the weirdest thing, as a 5'9 guy, above avg for my country and relatively attractive o was quite popular in my uni, and never had a problem with dates irl, maybe its my personality, idk.but I didnt get a single match on any dating apps, waited for 3 days, realised I was getting hooked and depressed and deleted all accounts and apps.they were terrible for my confidence
@dontwanna1602Until recently, I genuinely did not believe people would pay for dating apps. It never even occurred to me while using them. It would be like paying for a porn site subscription when porn is free.
@DestructoDiskWhatâs a bumble
@josiaphusSo funny how women messaged first: "Hi"
@ryangosling6249The more something is designed around meeting people, the less fit it becomes for that.
@Morlev44Never heard of it
@jubeaumont6305All of these stories tell me that IPO is a poison pill and the stock market should be illegal.
@VlemishFyreflyFeminist Tinder. What a shit idea
@robinhod12I met two ex-girlfriends and one ex-fiancĂŠe on bumble. Yeah fck bumble đđđ
@AndreAdvocateHey bro, âwomenâ is pronounced âwihmenâ, not âwomanâ.
@itsTheGshowNothing is as blackpilling than dating apps. Top 2% of men in attractiveness get almost all attention, and all women gladly ignore the bottom 98% to wait for their turn to be a hookup of the top 2%.
@chinchilla415That's a shame. I met my wife on Bumble
@ChesuMoriI had over 50 matches in one day on here without being super attractive
@georgeb9285I mean who pay to ge told you are not good enough?
@masoudsiddiqi2403Would really like to see top 10 first messages đ¤Ł
@wizardadminFrom bumble to crumble
@legalexposlyFrom bumble to crumble
@legalexposlyShame, I met my wife in Bumble.
@mp5k9mm1I got plenty of matches, but the qualityâŚ..was lacking. Not saying irl is better, but at least you donât get catfished
@keepmoving1185This Herd lady has committed violence on an entire generation. An architect of the commodification and transactional dating, she and her peers are evil.
@shockz50837:15 previous time point data where?
@notequalto5179I met my wife through Bumble in early 2025
@rickymateo2878In order for the app to be successful long term, every man would have to grow 2 feet and start making 7 figures a year and I'm pretty sure that in itself would collapse the economy and then Bumble indirectly, so they were never meant to succeed.
@austinphillip2164U thought Bumble is bad? Why ppl keep using tinder, its dead on the water if u are a guy, who doesnt pay 100$ a month
@skrandasStrange that prople find out after years that dating apps a not good for them xD
@vo9279Dating apps were only cool when they were easy to scrape and hack. It was just a menu for hookups that dangled a paid tier for the technically incompetent.
@hebozheI can say as someone who used Bumble, and something that practically any guy will tell you about Bumble. Women on Bumble weren't really messaging first. they would get their match, then send a "Hey" or an emoji to the guy. Then it would be the responsibility of the guy to provide a high quality message to move things on from there. Regardless of the intent of the app it wasn't really a "feminist" dating app or a "Women make the first move" type of app. It was just an app with an additional layer for women to screen out guys.
At least when I used it, I can say to Bumble's credit, the women on it were a lot more attractive than those on Tinder. Beyond that they weren't really any different. Bumble is ultimately collapsing because the paying customer, men, are discovering more and more that dating apps are a waste of time. Men outnumber women by 5 to 1, 6 to 1, maybe even higher and women are only actually liking and matching a very small amount of men, say 5 - 10%. Really handsome guys can clean up. Women wanting hookups can clean up. All other men and women wanting a long term meaningful relationship? Bumble provides no value. Bumble provides negative value as with other dating apps it wrecks the overall dating market.