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Tiger selfies: Chinese, Indian tourists lead cruel social media trend

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Tiger Kingdom, in Phuket, is one of more than a dozen “tiger selfie” attractions that have sprung up across the Southeast Asian country in recent years, driven by booming numbers of package-tour arrivals from mainland China and India, and the desire for ever more audacious social-media shots. Selfie with a tiger, at Tiger Kingdom, in Phuket, in April. On the shabby outskirts of a seaside resort in Thailand, a Chinese couple in beachwear lean across the back of an adult tiger. The big cat yawns with weary insouciance as two handlers cajole it around its pen and prod it with bamboo sticks. In a smaller enclosure, another couple giggle as they dangle their infant son over a juvenile tiger. This is the disturbing new face of wildlife tourism in Thailand, where tigers are hand-reared to provide social-media images for foreign visitors. Every day, busloads of tourists are whisked away from their sunloungers to spend an hour or so posing for pictures with unchained, surprisingly docile tigers.

Tiger selfies – and other Tinder tropes we’d like to see gone ...

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Another day, another era on the wane. The dating app Tinder has been asked to stop its users from using selfies with tigers on their profiles, after animal charities argued, entirely correctly, that it is cruel. Certainly, a ban is commendable: it rarely looks as if the “high-five” the animal is usually offering was given voluntarily. However, the ban also serves another, equally important, public service: it is a backhanded gift to those still employing the tiger selfie in an attempt to get laid. Perhaps Tinder could consider further legislation? The tiger selfie is merely one in a compendium of pictures privately blacklisted by anyone with sense. “It’s time for the tiger selfies to go,” the company wrote in a blogpost. “These photos take advantage of beautiful creatures that have been torn from their natural environment. We are looking to you to make a change.” The company has promised to “make it worth your while” by donating $10,000 to Project Cat for International Tiger Day.

What’s with All the Tiger Selfies on Dating Apps?

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The trend wasn’t recent, and I wasn’t the only one to notice. Nor was it restricted to Tinder — that’s just where I picked up on it. There are world leaders in similar photos — though presumably for more strategic ends than some weekend nookie — and Tumblr accounts dedicated solely to tiger and exotic-animal selfies. I mean, sure, if you’re a veterinarian or a zookeeper, or you write, “This is my pet tiger, Roscoe,” then I’ll buy it. But I would bet that for most Bay Area singles tigers feature about as importantly in their lives as, say, red potatoes. All arguments on the ethics of exotic-animal selfies aside (for those who wish to feel either ashamed or secure in their choices on the matter, click here and here), saying a tiger selfie “raises awareness” for the plight of big cats rings false to me. “It means they’re into kink,” she said. “Tigers equal kink.” · I could agree that in the visually coded language of online-dating profiles, the subject and the arrangement of images express far more than words ever can. Hence all those Machu Picchu pics. But her conclusion was entirely off, I felt. Sure, the best dating-profile pics convey some subtlety and mystery, and presumably a tiger selfie does say something more than “I like tigers.” Except for those tigers. Swipe right, swipe left, and there they were again in the background or, more often, foreground of another globe-trotting bachelor’s selfie. They seemed to be everywhere. Even more than pictures of Machu Picchu, a false mustache pic from a holiday-party photo booth or a day-drinking event at Dolores Park.

Tinder just cracked down on tiger selfies — and with good reason ...

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Tinder just cracked down on tiger selfies — and with good reason The dating app Tinder has asked its users to stop taking tiger selfies, a significant call to action for an issue most Americans … Though what makes these so-called “tiger selfies” possible may not be common knowledge, almost anyone who has spent time on a dating app has seen them: users, typically men, pictured relaxing alongside unrestrained tigers, lions, and other exotic animals. Most swipers understand the selfies as an effort to advertise their subjects as particularly daring or adventurous. In fact, the phenomenon is so common there is an entire website dedicated to it called Tigers of Tinder. Apparently, Tinder has seen quite a few of them, too. The app call to action was posted on the official Tinder blog and titled “Take Down the Tiger Selfies.” The post advised the app’s users that “posing next to a king of the jungle doesn’t make you one.”

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Tinder Says Swipe Left on Guys With Tiger Selfies

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The moves comes after PETA penned a letter to Tinder arguing that the practice is not only cruel because they require tigers to be caged, tied down or drugged in order to take a photo, but also dangerous for humans who might risk snapping a selfie with the animal in hopes of impressing a potential match. Tinder is asking its users to swipe left on tiger selfies. PETA in its letter asked Tinder to straight-up ban tiger selfies, which Tinder hasn’t done, but the company did pledge to donate $10,000 to Project Cat. Tiger selfies have long been popular on dating apps — so much so that several blogs such as “Tigers of Tinder” and “Tinder Guys with Tigers” have sprung up.