According to Tinder’s 2023 Year In Swipe report, a new dating trend has emerged that redefines traditional dating norms. “Not Attached To an Outcome,” or “NATO” dating, is an approach where individuals focus on enjoying the present moment and the process of getting to know a potential partner without placing excessive pressure on the future trajectory of a relationship.

Wow almost like Gen Z are in their 20s. Why do we have to come up with new "phenomena" and names for utterly banal stuff.

[–] ksynwa_from_lemmygrad@hexbear.net 28 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Is there a reason why they stretched the nomenclature of this phenomenon to call it something pertinent to NATO? It seems incredibly weird. Like they are desperate to link something normal and banal to a genocidal international military alliance.

[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's because zoomers flirt using the NATO phonetic alphabet.

[–] WayeeCool@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I found a dictionary of this newfangled NATO slag the kids are using: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiservice_tactical_brevity_code

[–] zifnab25@hexbear.net 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's called the NATO dating trend because it maps to the military strategy.

[–] MechanizedPossum@hexbear.net 22 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

"Maybe we can do some nation building and get a new highly functional vassal state like postwar Germany or Japan, maybe we just fuck shit up and set everything on fire for a couple decades, let's just enjoy the present moment and the process of getting to bomb brown people without placing excessive pressure on the future trajectory of our imperialism"

Yeah, this tracks.

[–] honeynut@lemm.ee 11 points 2 years ago

we used to just call that NSA dating

[–] culpritus@hexbear.net 29 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

what-the-hell

NATO dating means you can blow up NORDstream while still being friends.

[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago

Netflix Or Relaxing Dinner Stream

[–] voight@hexbear.net 27 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Lmao please archive when you post pure clickbait

[–] mechwarrior2@hexbear.net 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Social scientists are concerned about an emerging trend: BRICS dating

[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Bonding Romantically by Implementing Communication and Sex

[–] mechwarrior2@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago

xi-clap