Alise Morales just I was on a dating app Feeld The night an individual was arrested by ICE agents A mile away from Brooklyn, New York apartment.
Morales (35), a comedian who recently divorced, wanted something more casual. She came across Paul’s profile. “I was a couple swipes in, and it took me a second to even get what I was seeing,” He says. She says. “casual fun.” The distance between him and her was one mile. She noticed that his biography was: “Hey I’m Paul! ICE agent in from out of town looking for fun :)”
Morales initially thought that it was an unfortunate joke. “but there was nothing else on the profile to indicate that it was, or what the joke would even be,” “She says” All her social media alerts mentioned a recent active. ICE operation in the area. “I’m like, is this guy actively kidnapping one of my neighbors right now?”
Then there’s the dating and hookup appsShe felt least overwhelmed when she was hired in 2025. She “liked the radical honesty” People on the Platform This was the first time. “Obviously, I don’t expect everyone on there to have the same, like, progressive political beliefs as me, but Feeld does feel like the type of place—because of the sex-positive nature of it, and what it embraces—where it is shocking to see someone like that on there.”
While her experience may be unique, many Feeld power users are feeling that, while the app was originally geared towards non-traditional daters and those who prefer a kink lifestyle, it now serves everyone.
Feeld, launched in 2014 under the name 3nder as a dating app for people who don’t fall into any of the other categories. Its original pitch was Tinder for threesomes. You’re looking for someone who shares your two-spirit identity but is not nonbinary. Are you looking for a brat who is interested in bondage, non-monogamy and ethics? Feeld is for freaks.
That’s changing. The company claims that from 2021-2025, membership increased by 368 percent with an increase of nearly 200 percent in the number of new users. Data shared by WIRED shows that: “finding community” The platform has seen a 257-percent increase in new users between December 2025 and mid-January 2020.
“We’re capable of doing something really big and important for people,” Ana Kirova is the CEO at Feeld. “And that a lot of what we stand for can resonate with more people, not because we enforced it, but because we find a way to mirror what people want and then deliver it.”
Feeld is a platform that many users have used for a long time. “hopeless” “normie hell” Vanilla daters are a problem. “using the app as the new Tinder.” What’s at the top? “scammers,” “matches peddling their OnlyFans,” The biggest complaint is bots. Most people complain about bots. said One user of Reddit in the last year. “is the amount of people now on the app who are not sexually open minded.” Added Feelings “took the biggest and what feels like the fastest nosedive in a dating app I’ve ever seen.”
The question of who is using the platform today looms large and persistently at the center of the evolution.
Feel Tuesday The launch of a new “self-discovery experience” You can call them Reflections. Developed by University of Michigan associate professor Apryl Williams, Reflections is a guided 30-minute survey—available within the app or online for nonmembers, free of charge—that measures your capacity in three areas: desires, boundaries, and relationship preferences. Across 165 The following are some of the ways to get in touch with us:tal prompts—questions range from “What would stop a connection from moving forward?” to “Would you use large toys or objects on someone?”—Reflections tests users on things like their kink affinity, awareness of red flags, sex drive, potential for exploration, and self expression. Users are provided with their personalized results and a score in percentage for each category.
