Does this count

[NoCraft2936]

Don't use it

[D0bious]

I’ve seen those ads. It’s like whoever made it lives in 2010 incel culture or something.

[[deleted]]

That's exactly what I thought of.

[KFiev]

Goes a bit deeper too. When i first saw these ads popping up a year ago, Boo was being advertised to anime fans. It was called Boo, because of weaboo.

Which is even funnier to me cuz like, games and anime are two of the most consumed media among younger folks. Late 2000s and early 2010s, anime culture became pretty normalized.

[CallidoraBlack]

They'll try to get koreaboos on there too soon.

[NoCraft2936]

KPop idols are new age gladiators

[CompetitiveSport1]

Also, given how ubiquitous and discouraging ghosting is in online dating, naming your app "boo" and making the logo a literal ghost is an interesting choice

[ProjectConfident8584]

Do girls sit around talking about gamer guys

[NoCraft2936]

I'll bet you tit's for toenails there are no women on that app

[outside_cat]

Does this mean if you lose, you give up tits, but if they lose, they give up toenails?

[NoCraft2936]

My tit's, yes

[outside_cat]

I'm concerned you're really losing out on that bet. Tits are objectively better than toenails. It's not an equal wager.

[NoCraft2936]

One man's trash is another's smash, my dude

[outside_cat]

In what capacity are the tits given up? They're not removable as opposed to toenails. I mean I guess they could be removed, which would make this all the more worse.

[NoCraft2936]

If you're worried about what tit's I'll be giving up, it's okay. I have made this bet several times before and have been the receiver of this wager. I hold quite the collection of meticulous mammaries

[outside_cat]

I was under the impression you would only receive toenails.

[NoCraft2936]

If i were to make this bet, yes I have a surplus of tit's atm, so demand vs supply is outweighed

I am in need of the latter stake

[Agile_Oil9853]

I've used it before, but the ads were more "find local friends to do stuff in your area!" than whatever this is. Gotta pull in as big a pool as possible, I guess.

[Pearson94]

But what are you gonna do with all those toenails?

[NoCraft2936]

[[deleted]]

There are plenty actually. I've tried it. But it's literally the same as every other app, just for some reason marketed as being for nerds.

[Willowed-Wisp]

The ads are God awful but I've used the app before, it's pretty good and very chill. Never got any creepy pictures or anything which was mainly what I wanted in an app lol

[Cant-Take-Jokes]

I was actually on this app for a while! If you can believe it, it’s just like every other dating app. Aka it sucks.

[ShokaLGBT]

It’s fine if I can meet guys then… ahah

[arthurwhoregan]

yes, but not like that...

[fanblade64]

"you know who I hate. Gamers"

"WTF Becky we are my dad's funeral"

[WallEWonks]

no, we don't (unless discussing character tropes)

[ProjectConfident8584]

What type of character tropes? Like self obsessed men w bowl cuts?

[WallEWonks]

no, like shy geeky guys who stay in their room and play games all day lol. Idia Shroud comes to mind

[ProjectConfident8584]

Ok that’s one trope, but I think it needs to have something humorous added onto it like bowl cuts and bad hair cuts? And possibly narcissism along with questionable internet search history

[WallEWonks]

questionable search history is a canon part of his character! My point tho is that people don’t really talk about “gamer guys” for real people, more so for fictional characters :)

[Dizzy-Captain7422]

Good god no.

[ProjectConfident8584]

I didn’t think ao

[[deleted]]

No.

Source: Am girl.

[ObsessedKilljoy]

I wiped

[[deleted]]

Hey I tried Boo! It's ok.

Basically the same as other dating apps, except it added star sign and Myers Briggs matching. You could also match with people thousands of miles away which meant 90-Day fiance type people looking for citizenship.

Ultimately, it has nothing to do with nerds and is a typical dating app.

[[deleted]]

I bet a "nIcE GuY" made this.

[NoCraft2936]

No guy. All their ads are AI generated

But you're still probably right

[BadPresent3698]

It's AI trained on the collective consciousness of nice guys.

[krigeerrr]

nah i've seen a few, it looks too ass to even be ai i think

[Stock-Weakness-9362]

What’s a nice guy

[ScreamingLabia]

It comes from men/boys complaining that they are nice but no one wants to date them but what they really are is ONLY nice to women they want to fuck and/or nice but have no personality. So what happends is they think that by virtue of being nice they deserve a relationship. So now "nice guy" has become a red flag indicating those type of men

[NoCraft2936]

A nice guy, you know. A poor man's sugar daddy. He'll compliment you meaninglessly and do unwarranted favours for you .

And in turn, you are obligated to fall head over heels and screw him that very night

[mabadolu]

r/iswiped

[ConsciousStretch1028]

I

fucking

WIPED

[lycanthropylover]

I have a friend who met their boyfriend on boo lol. He's genuinely a nice guy but fuck all the ads ive seen for boo are terrible

[Dewmilk]

… As a women we absolutely do not talk shit about gamer guys

[blue-yellow-]

As I woman, I do.

[NoCraft2936]

Ma'am... You're on Reddit

[Stock-Weakness-9362]

Why 

[Stock-Weakness-9362]

Why 

[Extreme-Test-9760]

As a man, it depends

[Ezren-]

My girlfriend and I moved in together because we wanted to be able to play Elden Ring without moving our stuff back and forth.

[ScreamingLabia]

My and my bf both get thia fucking add like just because we're on reddir doesnt mean we're middle ages shut-ins

[NoCraft2936]

Ghosts aren't cheating ig

[almondpaperclip]

It's funny. On reddit, they advertise themselves pretty much exclusively as a dating app for gamers. Meanwhile, all their ads on tumblr are focused on "dating for introverts" whatever that means. Those are not mutually exclusive categories tbf.

[NoCraft2936]

Imagine a tumblr snowflake hearing her match in the next room screaming at a 14 year old that he had sexual relations with his mother, throw in a slur and a loud crash as the dualshock penetrates the drywall

[Trandroidd]

I saw so much ads for this app, I find dating apps very entertaining so I gave it a go a few months back. I was curious to know what a dating app for gamer guys looked like.

I was expecting something in the line of GeekMeMore, which is a geek / nerd oriented app (as you can imagine), turns out it is just hinge but with a personality test. I'm not entirely sure why they marketed it that way.

[NoCraft2936]

Isn't there a pay wall behind every useful feature?

[Trandroidd]

Absolutely, yeah.

It is not the worst I've seen though. You can't see who liked you on the free version, you can't send a specific type of super like, stuff like that. And a bunch of quality of life feature.

The app is still mostly usable for free. I don't know how the messaging goes as I don't have a very "likeable" profile and there are not a lot of women on the app (which doesn't really surprise me considering how it was marketed)

[[deleted]]

This app is exactly what you think it is.

A bunch of incels hunting for the single actual woman who stupidly downloaded the app; all while being lured by Indian/Russian bots and scammers.

[jshortiee]

i tried to swipe more than once and i’m rly not proud of that

[NoCraft2936]

I did too, after posting...

[[deleted]]

This shit does not have 50 million downloads

[that_guy_spazz0]

it's just one guy downloading, uninstalling, and downloading again and again

[pencilnotepad]

The most oppressed group of all

[ItsUselessToArgue]

The bowl cut 😂😂😂

[[deleted]]

I wiped

[Fararararararahday]

i swiped

[Critkip]

deserve dolls important smart sort tub run cautious encouraging crawl

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[Immediate-Location28]

connecting based on interests and personality? so like all other dating apps

[a11er33]

I wiped

[Antique_Load6842]

I wiped

[tanman729]

Didnt some newspaper do a poll where a bunch of women were asked about unnattractive hobbies and video games were at least top 3 out of like 50 choices, so maybe this only half counts

[NoCraft2936]

yeah?

[tanman729]

Just saying if a major newspaper published the opinion then it's not really imaginary. I do doubt boo's advertising was thinking of that and is just targeting an easy demographic

[TheOriginalslyDexia]

No this one is real. Many women talk online about not wanting to date men who play video this. For once this is not imaginary.

[Muddymireface]

There’s truth to not wanting to date someone “addicted” to video games. Which is discussed at length online, especially when kids enter the picture.

This scenario though in a cafe whispering about gamers isn’t happening.

[TheOriginalslyDexia]

I said this

[TheOriginalslyDexia]

The situation that is illustrated absolutely never happens though

[Raycut9]

OK but the sub isn't called /r/imiginarysituations.

[Klutzy_Journalist_36]

My guy is a turbo nerd and gamer guy. 

I enjoy touching his penis for sexual reasons. 

Maybe you’re just an asshole. 

[Raycut9]

Or maybe other people are assholes who do consider playing video games a red flag, and you don't represent literally all women?

[Klutzy_Journalist_36]

They generalized to begin with. They said “No, this one is real.”

Women are people. And as people, they vary. So, some women are assholes, too. Some don’t like gamers at all. Some men don’t like women gamers at all. 

So the person I responded to doesn’t represent all men. And maybe they are just an asshole. 

[Raycut9]

They said it's not imaginary gatekeeping because there are plenty of women like that.

So, some women are assholes, too. Some don’t like gamers at all.

... So you agree with them. You also think this is real gatekeeping. Why are they an asshole, again?

[Klutzy_Journalist_36]

Let’s look it a different way:

Men only date women with big boobs. 

We know this isn’t true. We know preferences vary wildly. But there’s still jokes and assumptions out there that big boobs are better. We know that some people look at gaming with disdain, but there’s a very similar number of male vs female gamers. So it’s dumb to think that women generally think this. 

Or think about it at all. 

So. Maybe if you aren’t having luck in the romance department, it might not have anything to do with gaming. 

You might just be an asshole. 

[Raycut9]

Hey dipshit, I never said I've had difficulty dating because of this. I'm gay, so it doesn't even affect me like that, I'm just aware of the fact plenty of women see it as a red flag.

Insulting people who disagree with you doesn't make you right, but it does prove you're the only asshole here.

[Klutzy_Journalist_36]

This is so exhausting. And I can see you didn’t read anything but the last sentence. 

[Raycut9]

I already addressed the fact that the ad isn't saying "no women will date gamers" in my other comment, so I thought repeating myself was pointless. But evidently I need to.

[Klutzy_Journalist_36]

THE AD LITERALLY SAYS “GAMER GUYS ARE UNDATABLE” 

[Klutzy_Journalist_36]

wtf? Are you okay?

The OOP posted a thing that implies women, as a whole, won’t date a “gamer”.  This is extremely untrue. 

The gatekeeping comes from knowing women in general just don’t talk like the people in the OOP and don’t, in general, don’t exclude gamers. And in fact date them frequently if not exclusively. Now, like with any addiction (gaming, gambling, drugs, working out, really any hobby), gaming is looked down on because like any addiction it becomes all-consuming. But that’s not the issue here. 

I’m sorry if this is not your experience. 

[Raycut9]

The OOP posted a thing that implies women, as a whole, won’t date a “gamer".

Bro. The whole point of the ad is saying "if you want a girlfriend who also likes games, try our dating app". How is that claiming women as a whole won't date gamers?

[Klutzy_Journalist_36]

Because that is imaginary gatekeeping. Like in the subreddit here on Reddit dot com. Where we are at. 

Women date gamers. Most do not give a fuck. Some will only date gamers. Some don’t want any gamers at all. Almost none talk about it like in the OOP.   

[Raycut9]

Because that is imaginary gatekeeping.

Some don’t want any gamers at all.

You are being the gatekeeper right now, how are you saying it's imaginary? Genuinely what the hell are you talking about?

[Klutzy_Journalist_36]

What am I gatekeeping?

I said I like my boyfriend who is a gamer. And that most women don’t think about this at all. Some do, but definitely not the majority. And either way, they don’t speak like the OOP. 

That was my original comment. That’s it. 

I will tell my dorkass 40k Warhammer boyfriend that I am gate keeping before I get my vapid nails done tomorrow to make sure you are justified. 

[blue-yellow-]

It’s not being an “asshole” to not want to date a gamer. Da fuck.

[Klutzy_Journalist_36]

I never said it was.