--- title: OkCupid Relaunches OkTrends Blog description: OkCupid relaunched its OkTrends blog after a three year hiatus. canonical: https://time.com/3047936/okcupid-relaunches-oktrends-dating-blog/ author: Laura Stampler article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-07-28T20:30:12.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:11:58.751Z og:title: OkCupid Brings Back Blog Chronicling Online Daters' Fascinating Habits og:description: After a three year hiatus og:url: https://time.com/3047936/okcupid-relaunches-oktrends-dating-blog/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2b4cc1d5366655fd/69869d86169ab05eb427a825/468941321.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 5100 og:image:height: 2869 og:image:alt: online dating og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: OkCupid Brings Back Blog Chronicling Online Daters' Fascinating Habits twitter:description: After a three year hiatus twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2b4cc1d5366655fd/69869d86169ab05eb427a825/468941321.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # OkCupid Relaunches OkTrends: A Beloved Blog That Tracks Online Daters' Fascinating Habits > Sponsored content. 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It is a free newsletter available at time.com/newsletters. by [Laura Stampler](https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/) ## Laura Stampler Jul 28, 2014 8:30 PM UTC  OkCupid relaunched OkTrends after 3 years off OkCupid relaunched OkTrends after 3 years off Getty Images by [Laura Stampler](https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/) ## Laura Stampler Jul 28, 2014 8:30 PM UTC In 2009, OkCupid gave the people of the Internet a beautiful gift. No, not eternal love. A peek into the its massive treasure trove of user data — exposing everything from strange overshares ([How much do Twitter users masturbate?](http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/10-charts-about-sex/)) to serious issues ([How does race impact the messages you receive](http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/your-race-affects-whether-people-write-you-back/)?). The observations and statistics were catalogued in the blog [OkTrends](http://blog.okcupid.com), written by OKC co-founder Christian Rudder, which started accumulating some 1 million unique views per post. But in April 2011, the [web favorite](http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2075431%5F2075447%5F2075478,00.html) went dormant, leaving its fans questioning, what’s [REAL “stuff white people like”](http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/the-real-stuff-white-people-like/) today? Until now. Monday marked the [relaunch of OkTrends](http://time.com/3047603/okcupid-oktrends-experiments/). “We always said we were going to relaunch the blog,” Rudder says. “I put it on pause because I was working on a book… but with that being finished and about to come out, it was time to restart.” All hail. Since the OkTrends lull occurred two [months after Match.com bought OkCupid](http://www.thewire.com/business/2011/02/match-com-buys-okcupid-what-it-means-for-online-dating/21241/), Rudder says some people floated conspiracy theories that Match shut it down. “They absolutely did not,” he says. “In fact they were sad we had to take time off from it.” But with his book [_Dataclysm: Who We Are_](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0385347375?ie=UTF8&tag=randohouseinc700267-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0385347375)set for a September release, Rudder says he’s back and ready to write a new OkTrends post once every four weeks. This month’s post proudly declared [“We Experiment on Human Beings!”](http://time.com/3047603/okcupid-oktrends-experiments/) — appropriate given the collective freakout over [Facebook’s June emotional manipulation study](http://time.com/2936729/facebook-emotions-study/) — and chronicles times the dating network used its users as guinea pigs. For example, OkCupid once told people with a 30% compatibility rating that they were a 90% match, just to see what happened. Even though Rudder says OkCupid only gets an estimated 1,000 people to sign up after a post goes live, “the effect is more simmering than that.” For example, if a woman reads an OkTrend piece when she’s in a relationship, she might remember a particularly insightful post several months later when she’s single again and sign up for the service. “It was more of a long game for us,” Rudder says. “It’s like a billboard in Times Square for Coke. 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