TikTok's brief and raunchy experiment with a dating feature is over

TikTok tested a "dating" option on its livestreaming feed.Screenshot/TikTok/BITikTok is pausing a test of a new dating feature that connected singles in live chat rooms.The feature lived in the "hangout" part of the app and was one of several multi-guest live options.Livestream blind dates have become popular in China, where TikTok's owner, ByteDance, was founded.For a brief moment, we looked for love in a hopeless place: TikTok.TikTok tested a new dating feature over the past week that thrust u