How is this any different from any other time period? 

Being overly earnest was considered a faux pas when I was dating in my early 20s too. I hate these generational stories that frame young people’s experience of youth as somehow new or different from how things have always been. 

https://www.wired.com/story/biggest-dating-app-faux-pas-for-gen-z-being-cringe/

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