A dating app pitched at self-righteous anti-Brexit voters who couldn’t bear to go on a date with a Leaver has basically flopped.
Remainder, which seized worldwide press attention after the referendum result, promised to help distraught Europhiles “recover” by making romantic connections online.
The service promised to run events and launch a smartphone app, like Tinder but only for the 48% of Brits who voted to stay in the EU.
The app was part of an en masse wave of revulsion by the British, largely London-dwelling elite, many of whom disowned all Leave voters on the spot.
However, just a few weeks after its grandiose genesis, the project has seemingly failed to get anywhere.
It has also amassed a small pot of cash through a crowdfunding site, leaving the backers with nothing to show for their generosity.
Donors on Crowdfunder.co.uk handed over £266 – including one who gave £100 and one who gave £50 – but have yet to see any obvious signs of progress.
The owners, whom Heat Street has contacted for an update on their project, never revealed their names in their publicity, and describe themselves simply as “two heartbroken Remain voters”.
They promised events in UK cities and partnerships with businesses, which also seem not to have materialised. Indeed, Remainder has not even posted a tweet since July 5th, less than two weeks after its launch:
Heat Street understands that the money funneled into the project has already been handed over – with no obvious procedure for return should the project formally fail.
Reaminder has yet to respond to Heat Street‘s entreaties (and requests for a date), while Crowdfunder declined to comment.