TikTok is pausing a short-lived dating feature that threw singles into raunchy chat rooms

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 users into live group chats with other singles.

The tool lived in a section of the app called “hangout” that’s tailored toward multi-guest experiences. It invited users who wanted to flirt to join chat rooms with “great people” or “awesome people to meet,” according to different versions of the feature viewed by Business Insider.

TikTok’s live dating option, which was made available to a subset of users in the US and a few other markets, is now being paused, a company spokesperson said, noting that TikTok often…