The Online Dating Douchebag
This is a series called Sheroes & Zeroes, about the people who defined our year in culture in both terrific and terrible ways.
A List of Things to Talk About on Match.com Other Than Fucking Zumba
Match.com has released its 2014 Year in Review report, and apparently, people don't have very much to mention about themselves other than "Zumba" and Frozen. Listen, love in the time of cholera internet dating can be rough. The whole idea of looking for a partner based on the pretense of personal branding is a bit…
My Month Looking for Love on Steve Harvey's Dating Site
I'm sitting across from Jean at a table outside of a Brooklyn Starbucks that feels way too narrow, like a bodega compared to its imposing neighbor, the Barclays Center. Steve Harvey arranged this date, which has so far exceeded my low expectations.
Online Dating Company to Pay $600,000 for Fake Dating Profiles
A company that operates multiple dating websites has been ordered by the Federal Trade Commission to pay more than $600,000 for charging people to look at fake dating profiles for non existent people. Apparently the practice violates federal law.
Man Chokes Woman He Met Online Because She Didn't Match Her Profile
A man is accused of violently assaulting a woman he was in an online relationship with because he didn't think she matched her profile description.
OKCupid Dick: 'I'm the Most Published Person On the Planet'
Pro tip: if you're a semi-well-known writer and you want to act like a total fucking asshole on a dating website, try to avoid bringing up your status as a semi-well-known writer as you're berating a woman for not responding positively to your overtures. It just makes you look worse.
Sasha Grey and 'Creepy Text Theater' Turn Terrible Sexts Into Comedy
It's one thing to read all those awful Tinder and OKCupid messages from dumbasses who think they're entitled to women's attention and bodies—it's another thing to hear them read aloud. Machinima ETC's Creepy Text Theatre brings us just that.
Firemen Pull Man's Online Date Out of His Chimney With Dish Soap
A woman got stuck in a chimney this weekend while trying to break into the home of a guy she'd been seeing. Fireplaces are better than front doors, as we all know.
'Tinder Guys Posing With Art' Is Your New Favorite Educational Tumblr
First there was Tinder Guys With Tigers, then there was Tinder Dudes On Boats, and now the latest Tumblr highlighting an annoying trend of dudes on the dating app is Tinder Guys Posing with Art.
Meet The Woman Too Pretty Hot and Tempting For On-Line Dating
If you've been on a dating site lately — or ever, really — you've likely run into people who you may consider out of your league based on physical appearance. Not Paula Jayne Allen, an Essex woman who says that she's actually too sexy for dating sites. Yes, all of them. The internet can't even handle her.
The New Fall TV Rom Coms Look Nothing Like My Dating Life
A couple months ago, I deleted Tinder from my phone, fed up with the deluge of passive, shirtless guys on there. Great idea, thanks for the memories, but I'm gone. Some of my friends still entertain it, gathering stories to be published in Fangoria, I presume. There are so many awkward tales that network TV…
Manhattanites Demand Shutdown of Cafe That Attracts 'Internet People'
The old folks of New York City’s Upper West Side are beyond pissed that people who met using online dating services — one concerned neighbor is calling them "internet people" — are ruining their neighborhood. Wasn't You've Got Mail shot on the Upper West Side?
Study: Online Dating Isn't As Efficient or Promising as We Think
While some may still be hesitant to join the flashy (sometimes literally) world of online dating, it's obviously becoming more of an appealing option for those who are currently witnessing their own existential demise at the hands of loneliness. Well, bad news folks: relationships that start online don't last as long…
Even More Awful Tinder and OkCupid Messages: 'Let Me Fuk That Asshole'
If you're dating online these days, you have my deepest sympathies.
More Dudes Who Will Not Be Ignored: 'Remind Me to Slap Your Momma'
Is this an epidemic? After we published a story Tuesday about men on dating sites who really really don't like it when you give them radio silence (however brief or long that silence is), we got inundated with similar stories from other women.
OKCupid Dude Will Not Be Ignored: 'You Self Involved Princess'
Hot new trend: Dudes on dating sites freaking out at you when you don't immediately respond to their entreaties to hang. (If this were a true trend piece, the title would be something like, "Men: Are They the New Women?")
This Robot Maximizes Your Chance of Finding Love on Tinder
Tinder is a great way to find hookups romance near you, but it still relies on you and your potential partner finding each other mutually attractive. Since you can't always rely on that, why not boost your odds—say, with a robotic finger that can "like" up to 900 Tinderers per hour?
Finance Douche Throws Pee-Pants Tantrum After Being Rejected on Tinder
Rejection is the pits. We know this. Professional rejection, academic rejection, organ rejection, and, most especially, romantic rejection. So it's totally understandable why this semi-anonymous Tinder user, known only as "Tom," would FLIP THE FUCK OUT like a baby that got sand on its binky when politely rebuffed by a…
Cheating Site Ashley Madison Won't Delete Your Profile Unless You Pay
Famed cheating website and purveyor of trollish billboards Ashley Madison makes money in a few ways: first, by charging users to access the site. Secondly, by collecting fees from advertisers who wish to reach the site's users. The third? Charging users twenty bucks to delete their profiles.
Cops Accused of Using Police Equipment to Creep On Online Dates
Online dating can be a little bit of a gamble—no matter how compatible and/or trustworthy a potential suitor seems, sometimes you just want to get a background check on a fool before you meet up with him. And that's exactly what some police officers did in Fairfield, California. While they were on duty. Oops.
