154. What You Don’t Know About Online Dating
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🗓️ 6 February 2014
⏱️ 36 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I had been personally on OKCupid on enough for a few years. |
| 0:05.5 | That's Ali Reid. |
| 0:06.7 | And I just moved to LA in August and got back on as a way to meet people and get to know |
| 0:12.5 | the city a little bit. |
| 0:14.5 | Reid is a comedy writer. |
| 0:16.4 | She spent a lot of time on her OKCupid profile. |
| 0:19.5 | OKCupid in case you don't know is a dating website. |
| 0:22.8 | The profile that she wrote wasn't really working. |
| 0:25.9 | Got a lot of messages of, hey, you seem nice. |
| 0:31.2 | Like, you know, just nothing to do with my profile. |
| 0:35.4 | And so I wondered, does anyone care at all? |
| 0:39.4 | Like, are they just looking at a picture? |
| 0:42.5 | So I wanted to see if there was a lower limit to how awful a person could be |
| 0:47.4 | before men would stop messaging her on an online dating site. |
| 0:52.1 | So this is when she got crafty. |
| 0:54.1 | She wrote a fake OKCupid profile. |
| 0:57.2 | Very, very fake. |
| 1:01.2 | So you set up a profile and your name is what? |
| 1:05.8 | Erin Carter fan. |
| 1:07.4 | And are you in fact an Erin Carter fan? |
| 1:10.3 | No, but I figured the woman I was trying to create probably constitutes |
| 1:14.5 | Erin Carter's basic fan base. |
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