I might be misremembering. I’ll try to find the source but here’s a paper that is at 40% in 2017: https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1908630116
I also found this which indicates somewhere in the 50-60% range in 2022 (that’s the latest that the dataset goes up to)
So I don’t have a source for 70%+ atm, but in terms of new couples in 2025, it seems pretty plausible given past data.
Edit: also to be fair, “online” doesn’t mean tinder/bumble/hinge etc. Discord or video games are two other options that come to mind.
Also, the graphic in the 2nd link is the same as https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/18h7k9g/how_heterosexual_couples_met_oc/ which mentions an error with interpretations of the dataset where bar/restaurant is incorrectly counted when couples first met online. This explains the uptick in that line in the original graph.
