weird dating strategy

a friend found his partner on hinge.

here's the weird dating strategy he employed:

• make your profile/prompts the absolute weirdest version of yourself [1] [2]
• have terrible pictures
• be a dry texter

this "strategy" worked for him to filter for who he would get along with.

to get to a first date with him, the person had to:

• be ok with the weirdest version of himself
• be ok with the least attractive version of himself (lol)
• be willing to put in work to get to a first date

he only went out with a few people before meeting his partner. but he went on multiple dates with them so they were along the right direction too.

there might be something to this strategy 🤔

[1] this year, I independently employed "make your profile/prompts the absolute weirdest version of yourself" and i've been meeting much better people for me this year 😊

[2] Ex. he listed 15 obscure house DJs on his profile. I personally played up my hobbies to good effect too, ex. I have a prompt that's like "Together we could read War and Peace"