--- title: "Kink App Throws Party, Guests Alarmed When Woody Allen Shows Up" description: "During the launch party for Feeld's new literary magazine, younger guests were none too pleased when Woody Allen arrived." date: "2024-10-22" modified: "2024-10-22" authors: - name: "Noor Al-Sibai" job_title: "Senior Staff Writer" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/nooralsibai" url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/feeld-app-party-woody-allen" categories: - "Future Society" tags: - "celebrities" - "dating apps" - "sexual misconduct" - "the digest" --- # Kink App Throws Party, Guests Alarmed When Woody Allen Shows Up ![During the launch party for Feeld's new literary magazine, younger guests were none too pleased when Woody Allen arrived.]() *\Image: Lorena Sopena / Europa Press via Getty\* ## Interiors During a launch party for a kink app-funded literary magazine — yes, you read that right — Gen Z and Millennial guests were unnerved when their Boomer host's most notorious friends arrived. In a [*New York Times* scene report](), the launch party for Feeld's new lit mag, fittingly titled "*[A Fucking Magazine]()*" or *AFM* for short, seemed to be a fascinating meetup between the literati's old guard and its new, nonmonogamous younger generation — right up until Woody Allen and his former-adopted-daughter-turned wife Soon-Yi Previn showed up. Hosted by essay writer [Daphne Merkin]() at her roomy Manhattan apartment, the scenario could well have been something out of a new Allen film had the 2017 #MeToo movement not [resurfaced allegations of sexual abuse]() against him made by another of his adopted children, Dylan Farrow. "Feeld team members looked on a bit anxiously," writer Alex Vadukul recounted, "as the host chatted with them in a corner." Indeed, the 88-year-old "Annie Hall" director himself remarked at how familiar the scene felt to him. "I’d go to those parties, always held by writers like Norman Mailer or George Plimpton," Allen told the *NYT*. "You’d stand around talking with Susan Sontag or Dwight Macdonald. It was like how this is tonight." It's hard to imagine who in that era, though, would have made guests as apprehensive as this ill-famed auteur. ## New York Stories Notably, the paper of record did not interview any of the younger writers who attended the *AFM* launch party at Merkin's place about the Allen of it all — but that doesn't mean folks weren't talking about it. As [*The Cut* noted]() in its own scene report from the magazine's larger launch party, which was held the following day at a dance club across from the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn, mention of the infamous attendees made its way to the profile's writer. "I’m told Allen was studiously avoided," columnist Bindu Bansinath remarked in a parenthetical. While we're used to people who are nearly universally loathed rubbing shoulders with [Silicon Valley's hoi polloi](), hearing about such a thing happening in the world of dating apps and literary magazines feels a little more discordant. One thing, however, is for sure: if Allen or Previn are on Feeld, they would have to do so without identifying photos — because otherwise, the rest of NYC's nonmonogamous and kink crowd would be in an uproar. **More on fame:** [*Bizarre New AI App Simulates If You Were Famous With Millions of Fawning Fans*]() ## Author At Futurism, I've often been drawn to unpacking the narratives that underlie technological, scientific and medical progress, with a special interest in areas of conflict and ambiguity that end up setting agendas and steering the fates of both elites and the hoi polloi. I'm a committed generalist, but I often find myself returning to work involving NASA and the private space sector, the effects of AI on media and society, and the mechanics of the pharmaceutical industry, with a specific focus on the spread of GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy. Prior to Futurism, I worked for publications ranging from Media Matters and Truthdig to Raw Story and Bustle. I'm also the author of "Myspace Scene Queens," a 2024 title in Instar Books' acclaimed "Remember the Internet" series. My work at Futurism has been cited by outlets including the New Yorker, Slate, Nieman Lab, the Verge, the MIT Technology Review, the Sunday Times, and the Daily Beast. I grew up in North Carolina, attended the University of North Carolina at Asheville, and now live in Brooklyn, New York. In my free time, I'm an avid reader and music fan; you can probably find me at a local poetry reading, concert, underground rave, or DJ set. I'm the proud parent of an ineffable orange cat named Mee-Mow. ### Author social links [Bluesky]()