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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Lifestyle
Alaina Demopoulos

DARK SECRETS: I was nervous to ask for your socials why missed connection posts are making a comeback | Vintage Vibes

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‘It’s fun to read them, just as much fun as it is to place or respond,’ historian Francesca Beauman says of missed connections ads. Composite: The Guardian/Unsplash/Reddit

Layla Rivera was at work when her boyfriend texted: someone on Reddit was looking for her.

In the comments of a post on the subreddit r/warpedtour, attendees of the punk rock and emo music festival searched for their missed connections – ephemeral friends or hookups they met onsite and would like to see again. Rivera could tell that one message, addressed “to Leila/Layla (the short girl with the red top)”, was almost certainly written by a man she encountered while watching the band Sweet Pill at Warped Tour’s Washington DC stop in June.

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