GENZ Financial News

online dating scene. Scroll through any Gen-Zer’s dating profile or listen to some of their dating stories and words like ‘breadcrumbing’, ‘rizz’, ‘roaching’ and ‘soft launch’ are bound to crop up. While some of these are new ways to package long-known terms and trends, others are annoying behaviours that seem to have become part and parcel of the modern dating scene. For example, in India, desi online dating trends like ‘evil dead rise’ and ‘delusionship’ seem to be trumping global trends like ‘situationship’ or ‘ghosting’. “We have noticed that approximately 44% of participants (out of 15,000 surveyed) have been a part of more than one trend, with Delushionship and Evil Dead Rise in the lead,” says Ravi Mittal, founder and CEO of homegrown dating app, QuackQuack. “Much has been said and done about the global dating patterns, but this time, we wanted to shed some light on the up-and-coming desi online dating trends and specifically observe GenZ Indian daters' behaviour.” The platform spoke to 15,000 men and women between the ages of 18 – 26 in cities like Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Bengaluru, Surat, Lucknow, Jaipur, Bhopal, Patna, Indore, Kochi, Kanpur, and Guwahati, and found four key trends that have emerged amongst Gen-Z Indian daters.