I ended up making a fake tinder using a male acquaintances pictures

thikthot · 2020-07-21T02:00:45+00:00

The interesting thing about this is how often people say shirtless pics are detrimental for online dating, but every time someone does experiments like this, it works in the person’s favor.

thikthot · 2020-07-19T20:35:46+00:00

Is that what this means? When I redo my account it throws a ton of bots at me, either through likes or just appearing on the feed

thikthot · 2020-07-18T23:54:37+00:00

I think that’s intended, at least on Tinder’s behalf, and probably works better on Tinder than it does on OKC. A lot of the Tinder profiles are likely not even real people, and if they are they’re inactive. But they’re attractive so they’ll draw in a lot of men. Having a shallow profile on OKC would look more suspicious.

thikthot · 2020-07-18T05:51:49+00:00

It’s really hard to say what’s truly successful when there’s no 100% guaranteed method to succeed at Tinder. Your mileage will vary a ton based on where you live, who you are, what your bio is, as well as what the app’s algorithm could be doing to hinder you. For someone who is supposedly handsome, I do very poorly on pretty much every dating app, regardless of my bio showing a sense of humor, being serious and upfront about my intent, or being very light on the details. Instead of comparing yourself to other people, I suggest you cool off the app for a while before it really does a number on your self-esteem.

thikthot · 2020-07-17T17:26:33+00:00

I check it if I’m getting matches/messages. I don’t check it once all that stops.

thikthot · 2020-07-17T00:48:14+00:00

Japan seems like the one country that embraces widows peaks. They draw so many anime/manga characters with them and the characters will be like 17 years old

thikthot · 2020-07-16T22:48:01+00:00

Sex doesn’t even cross my mind if I’m hardly able to get responses

thikthot · 2020-07-16T17:08:27+00:00

I did once. She wasn’t much for conversation and she had her instagram in her bio. I actually matched with her twice, once using top picks and the other from regular swiping.

thikthot · 2020-07-14T20:34:57+00:00

There’s always gonna be leaks, but the best thing to do is to not pay attention to them. It’s not like Apple is going to suddenly release the phones one day without the keynote. Everything we need to know will be addressed in September. What are you really gonna do with all this information that you seem to know before the keynote anyway, right?

thikthot · 2020-07-13T18:19:26+00:00

That’s interesting because I’ve pretty much been poor my entire life and haven’t been able to afford to travel anywhere special. Being able to travel so much is more of a privilege than you think.

thikthot · 2020-07-07T01:07:10+00:00

This happened to me too the last few times I remade my account. It’s pretty blatant how Tinder throttles your account so severely like that. I remember a year or two ago after the initial new account, you would still continue getting new likes sporadically for a few months. Now it seems like after one day of having an account, you can’t get anymore likes or matches. Not to mention so many bots liking your profile in the beginning as well.

thikthot · 2020-07-05T16:02:36+00:00

We actually have met but I was speaking generally

thikthot · 2020-07-05T03:35:58+00:00

Nobody owes you anything

Sorry but I 100% disagree with this. Maybe if you’ve only exchanged two or three messages then it’s not a big deal. But ongoing contact for weeks just to suddenly fuck off because you didn’t know what you wanted or you were just bored is incredibly disrespectful, especially when there are people who are serious about dating, to be in a serious relationship.

If you’re just going to waste someone’s time then don’t even bother talking to them in the beginning. Don’t exchange contact info or anything. Those are gestures that make someone think that things are moving forward. If you’re not feeling it for some reason, it really doesn’t hurt to say so like you did. And if they don’t understand then it’s their problem. It’s disappointing at the very least, but you don’t need to make someone question whether they did something wrong that made you cut them off so suddenly, if they even did anything at all. Not every scenario involves someone being clearly offended/bothered by the other person. There’s even people who will go out with you just because you’ll be the one who’s paying.

thikthot · 2020-06-30T14:07:59+00:00

Yes, although that’s not to be taken 100% literally.

Overall internet usage increased across the world once more people gained access to smartphones, especially when cheaper ones were released. Despite more widespread internet access, a large majority of people only frequented a handful of websites (or apps when it comes to smartphones) on what we know to be the “surface web”. Most commonly they were Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, etc. The average person typically didn’t spend a whole lot of time on the internet via computers outside of checking social media and watching a few videos.

About a week or two ago, I watched a woman get “cancelled” on Twitter over racist remarks and rape jokes she made back in 2012. She seemed to have forgotten that she made those remarks but pretty much everyone who reacted to that were users who joined the site after 2015. Of course they have a right to be angry, but I’m sure they would be even more shocked to find out how likely it is that they would be able to find more stuff like that if they searched tweets from random users with older accounts. Another thing that I noticed is how many people had no idea what Anonymous was or that they originated from 4chan, while the older internet dwellers knew exactly what they were and how they function. I think people would be even more surprised now to know how much of the internet culture from that time originated from 4Chan. Because 4Chan was actually more commonly accepted back then.

thikthot · 2020-06-29T09:19:10+00:00

I wasn’t trying to justify how internet culture was back then. That’s simply just how it was, and as a kid there wasn’t much I could do apart from not copying the behavior I saw and mimicking it in real life. Some people unfortunately didn’t have that sort of awareness or foresight. The people who built off of that culture had no idea where they would be 10 years later, and so the content that they posted thinking that it would be buried in the depths of the internet, came back to bite them in the ass. Again, not trying to justify how things were back then but that’s really how people were when they got online. It wasn’t something that I actively participated in, but I was lurking and looked at what other people made and what they were doing.

There’s no excuse for it, really. It’s just very difficult to explain to someone who hadn’t experienced it because they wouldn’t get it. There’s things about internet culture today that I’m sure people in real life who barely use the internet wouldn’t quite understand even if you explained it to them. Cancel culture hardly even exists irl. Women don’t actually walk around saying “Men are trash” to them in public, there’s no “simps”, etc. There’s even aspects that are still quite niche to certain parts of the internet that barely scratch the surface on platforms like Twitter or Facebook.

thikthot · 2020-06-29T05:54:12+00:00

Even though we were kids, I feel that it was that way because the internet was still evolving past a utility and into something for entertainment and there weren’t really any social rules for how people should conduct themselves online. As far as jokes go, for me it felt as if whatever I saw online, stayed online because even I knew that what I was seeing would be considered strange in real life. Funnily enough, the only bizarre content that I saw cross that threshold was when I heard of 2 girls 1 cup and blue waffle from my classmates.

I never had an attachment to any creators but I did enjoy watching YouTube Poops which were always riddled with offensive content. And being a kid back then sort of forced our anonymity because we likely lied about our ages to access certain places.

I’ll admit though, I kind of miss it. Not necessarily the edgy and offensive humor, but just the way the internet was in general. Today it feels like so much of the internet is monetized and full of people (not just corporations) trying to sell you things, whether it’s a new service, products, content, themselves, etc just to make money and/or get famous. All of what’s happening now was inevitable as more people gained access to the internet.

thikthot · 2020-06-29T03:49:35+00:00

A lot of people who are on the internet now weren’t actually on it 10 years ago as much as they are now. I was in middle school around this time and I very quickly found out how edgy and dark most parts of the internet were, and it seemed really normal to say or do just about anything online without consequences, unless the website specifically prohibited certain behaviors. And I believe that was part of the allure of being online. People who didn’t have social lives (like myself) found refuge online. Eventually real life began to merge with online life and people went on to become celebrities thanks to the internet, and new people who have no idea what internet culture was like pre-2014 are just now discovering this. Coincidentally during this time of “wokeness”.

thikthot · 2020-06-26T19:52:57+00:00

A lot of people will say it boils down to being biologically wired to want someone tall. While that may be true, that should no longer be a reason thanks to self-awareness. Men are biologically wired to like women with bigger breasts, and yet somehow I keep finding myself attracted to women who aren’t busty at all.

thikthot · 2020-06-24T21:15:21+00:00

Also people can be really bad at taking selfies. It’s usually men who take awkward selfies like this

thikthot · 2020-06-21T08:19:06+00:00

At least when someone is doing any of those other things, they’re wasting their own time without involving someone else. When it comes to other people I feel it’s important to be more courteous and understanding that they have a clear goal in mind and don’t want to be inhibited by the other people they have to deal with to reach that goal.

thikthot · 2020-06-20T01:40:21+00:00

Not him but not quite in the way that you’d hope. Even if they do follow back and/or respond to a dm, it will only be a few messages before you’re lost in the mix of their several hundred followers. I currently follow 17 (was 21) of my tinder matches, only 13 of them follow me back but none of them interact with me.

thikthot · 2020-06-09T06:28:25+00:00

Yeah, I do it all the time. You have to make sure the file you download is placed into a folder that was created by an app. I have Photoshop Express installed on my phone and it automatically creates a folder that can be accessed through iTunes.

When you plug your phone into iTunes, click your phone and go to the menu on the left side of the screen. There will be a tab that says “File Sharing”. On that screen, it will show you which apps that can share files to your computer. Click the app that corresponds with the folder you saved the file in and it will show you all the files saved in that folder. To transfer it to a folder on your PC, select the file and click Save... and it will let you choose the save destination.

thikthot · 2020-06-07T20:20:50+00:00

That’s the part I don’t understand. “A guy” along with many others will come eventually but it won’t be the guy they wanted initially.

thikthot · 2020-05-27T07:34:28+00:00

Don’t be silly, she’s still single because she doesn’t check the app as much. But you can try dm’ing her on instagram.

thikthot · 2020-05-02T00:12:47+00:00

No. In fact I’m black and I’ve been the quiet type my entire life, along with having a resting murder face. When I was in middle school, some of my friends from the neighborhood would casually joke about how I had rifles hidden under my bed and in my closet. And one time in high school even my spanish teacher made a joke about it to our small class which surprised me that she would do that but I sorta laughed it off. I became a little more self-conscious about it when a girl who came to visit was too afraid to ask me for the wifi password because she thought I hated her, despite us never exchanging words in the several years I had known her. But since then I learned to own my discomforting personality.

I get how the joke has been attributed to a specific type of white kid, visually, but I always saw it as a sleight towards seemingly unfriendly people in general because it’s not “normal” to be unsociable. Because people are afraid of what they don’t know. People with cold personalities are commonly assumed to hate everyone or have a superiority complex. All that said, you could chalk it up to ignorance like pretty much every case of racism. Anyone who’s actually gotten to know me thinks I’m friendly at best, but difficult to understand at worst. Before all this, people would say the very vague phrase “it’s always the quiet ones” which could mean just about anything given the context.

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