Dating apps are sh*t!
…and here are 6 reasons why
- Season 1 Episode 1 (part 1 & 2) - The one who ghosted me 3 hours before our meeting on Xmas eve and who got back in touch a year later as if he had done nothing wrong.
- Season 1 Episode 2 - The one who dated me for 3 weeks to empty his balls / fill his time until his ex got her visa granted and she could finally return into the country.
- Season 1 Episode 3 (extended version) - The one who used my flat (5 minutes walk from his work place) 5 days a week to get free bed, board and laundry... but who wandered fucking other womEn on his days-off.
- Season 1 Episode 4 - The one who didn’t want to date due to intense work pressure but who voided our F*ck-buddy arrangement after 5 weeks, once he found someone he actually really wanted to date.
!! Spoiler alert: The abrupt end happened only few days after he sent me d*ck pics and told me how much he wanted me !!
- Season 2 Episode 1 - The one who I felt a real connection with and opened up to for a month (weaknesses and nudes included) until he cut me off a few days prior to meeting, as he suddenly decided a girlfriend his age would be "a better fit" for him.
- Season 2 Episode 2 - The one who told me 1 hour (ONE whole hour!) AFTER the time set for our meeting that he was going back with his ex who reconnected the day before.
In order of appearance, I shall thank this pretty (but) terrific male cast: Danny, Sandy, Willian, Karan, Simon, Cameron (or Cam for friends and… naive girls like me) and Curtis. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is NOT coincidental.
Review excerpted from TV Star Magazine:
"Friends *with benefits - the dating app edition" is an entertaining show with a strong female lead who unfortunately isn't supported by any of her male counterparts. We would have loved to see the romance develop with one of them further on throughout the show, rather than having these “men” flicker at the end of a short episode. In the end, the show felt very repetitive as the lead female fell from one disappointment to the next and we got tired of sharing her struggle".
Following an executive decision --mine!-- this show won't be renewed for a third season.
"Hinge, the app designed to be deleted", as they claim. Indeed... I deleted it... out of disgust!
There should be warnings on every dating platform. Sentences like "this show is done by amateurs only" or "participating in this sh*t show should not be attempted at home, alone". Fair enough, no animals were harmed in these recordings... However, my human heart got broken several times.
@ttention!
This is NOT a work of fiction. Most of us have a version of these types of stories, some way worse than what I experienced. Taken individually, we can tell ourselves that there’s always a bad apple in the bunch, so we shouldn’t care much and move on quickly towards other fishes 'cause there are POF --in the sea and on apps. But, mind the sharks on there.
Too many of these sadistic episodes spinned off my mind to believe that men on dating apps are no better than Rotten Tomatoes. I obviously KNOW 100% that not all men are assh*les. I just happened to go through a bad serie and still kept going.
To wrap up, I finally decided NOT to engage in any dating activities for the next six months. Hot dudes will be screened on Insta only and interactions with sh*tty humans will be abandoned. One day I might encounter that person who deserves the Oscar. But in the meantime, I’ll stay clear from the shots…and I’ll HEAL.
Wish y'all a lovely 2023. May your life be a RomCom rather than a Horror story.
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Thank you to Karen and Deborah for reviewing this piece.
