I Secretly Changed My Dating Profile Images with Dog Poop...Let's See What Happened...💩

I had tried online dating before, but not for quite some time.  It seems there are so many different choices nowadays and it was beyond time for me to get my groove back.  I selected Hinge.

Initially, I was pleasantly surprised to see so many attractive and fit men in my age range.  I got to work, posted some of the nicest photos of myself that I could find and waited for the matches to roll in....and roll in they did.

I got to work and began communicating with my matches.  However, I noticed that after the initial "Hello" or "How are you?" the dialogue seemed to go haywire.  Their responses seemed to not make much sense. I'd ask a question, and the reply would be about something completely different.  One man who claimed to live in my hometown (Manhattan) told me he lived in midtown... on 97th street... Huh?  He then proceeded to supply his full address with apartment number, city, state and zip code. It was like he copied and pasted an address.🤷🏻‍♀️ Who would do that??

I wondered if I could possibly be communicating with bots. After a few infuriatingly frustrating attempts at texting with one match, I just straight out asked him if he was a complete moron.  His response.."So, what do you do for work?"😐

OK then--seems like I had my answer.

Unbelievably, I also matched with a famous mogul, writer, podcaster who I follow!! (well his photos anyway).  His images were used several times under various names. I thought I recognized him, so I went to the podcaster's site and saw that the photos were just stolen directly from there.

This is COMPANYWIDE deception (not just some errant creeps).

Well...to thank Hinge for wasting my time...I decided to run an experiment. I replaced all of my lovely images with dog poop photos (like remember the old commercial where they secretly replace one coffee brand with another to see what happens?) Kind of like that, (but not really).

I replaced my glamorous, carefully selected photos with that of dog poop.  Let's see what happens..🤫

Also. for my additional photos, I added more poop images along with a big, fat ass slapper with the caption.."Hinge is a fake ass site", along with funny replies to their blurb sections.

Well (not) to my surprise, I woke up the next day with EIGHTEEN new promising matches stating...
"Hello pretty-you look so beautiful and younger than your age"--"Wow beautiful" and "Great smile"
Well my goodness, I have never been so popular!! All that fiber has really paid off! 💩💩💩💩
(And come on, no one uses their last names on dating sites 🙄)

Wow!  Even a super handsome famous mogul, author and podcaster wrote to me...twice...under separate names and phony profiles.
(His image was obscured to protect his identity.)

I thought it looked like him, so I went to his web site and voila--there were the stolen photos.

I even replied to some of the matches and they continued along showering me with compliments even though to be honest...I looked like shit.💩

It wasn't until early evening that Hinge finally caught on and took down my account. 😂😂

I did a little research and found out that HINGE was purchased by Match.com which has a bit of a reputation for shady tactics as well.  But this experience was really over the TOP!!  I did not pay for HINGE membership, but many do.

I don't care for myself so much cause I'm a tough futher mucking New Yorker.  But I feel compassion for the more fragile and lonely people out there.

 It is an awful thing to do, not only to rob people of their money, but of their hopes, to waste their time (because it takes a good deal of effort), to rob them of their enthusiasm and possibly make them feel bitter,  humiliated and depressed.

TO HINGE I SAY SHAME ON YOU

Dating apps are a part of life now but this experience has encouraged me to make the effort to REALLY get out there...somewhere else other than my phone/computer.  No I don't like bars and it's tough to meet single people (especially when you're older), but there has to be a better way than this juvenile, mostly fake forum. (Meet ups?  Athletics?  Book Clubs?) I don't have the answer.

It's not easy I know, but to all those who get bamboozled by these loathsome tactics...

❤️❤️❤️❤️Don't lose hope! Love will find you!❤️❤️❤️❤️
And if you really look hard enough...it probably already did.