Dating apps these days can feel more exhausting than exciting. By 2025, many women have grown tired.
Across TikTok, group chats, and real-life dating, women are quietly finding a solution outside their own generation, or so they think: trying to date around the algorithm.
For many, the appeal of age-gap dating isn't novelty; it's escape.
Gen Z women are swiping up to millennial men with the belief they have "missed out on the content of the manosphere," according to Annabelle Knight, a UK-based sex and relationship expert, The Matchmaker's Match author, and couples coach.
She describes the shift to Indy100 as "the 'push and 'pull' effect," explaining that "some men have been pulled down the red pill path and that has 'pushed' women to seek meaningful relationships with men that they believe will find them equal."
Annabelle adds that millennial men "have largely missed out on the content of the manosphere and as such are likely seen as being more emotionally available, less performative and are capable of offering a stable relationship".
Cross-generational dating isn't new by any means, but the reason behind it is.
After a decade of men learning about women through algorithms rather than relationships, many women are choosing partners who feel less "trained" by the feed.
Annabelle sees the trend as a response to cultural pressures rather than a fad.
"There's been much media coverage on the spread of manosphere ideas that are shaping younger men's behaviours," she notes. Subsequently, women perceiving these shifts are opting out.
But Annabelle also stresses that age gaps aren't a guaranteed shortcut to a deeper connection; they also often come with "different media habits."
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