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World’s worst online dating profile attracts men

Alli Reed, a Los Angeles-based comedy writer and columnist for Cracked.com, insists she's had good experiences meeting men through online dating.

But that didn't stop her from setting up the ultimate experiment to test the limits of the vast number of unsavoury gentlemen she runs into through the popular dating site OkCupid.

"You get so many messages from men who clearly haven’t read your profile that carefully, and they just message you anyway with these... requests," Reed, whose current boyfriend she met from OkCupid, explains to ABC.

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The challenge? See just how low some men will go to snag a date with a good-looking woman.

How, you might ask?

By setting up the absolute worst, most terrifyingly offensive profile she could imagine, complete with spelling and grammar errors, drug habits and details of how she lives off child support payments from a faked pregnancy.

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Under interests, the profile reads, “knockin the cups out of homeless ppls hands.”

To complete the profile for "AaronCarterFan," as she named the fake profile subject, Reed used photos of a model friend of hers.

"Maybe there was a woman so awful, so toxic, so irredeemably unlikeable that no one would message her, or if they did, at least they would realize they never, ever wanted to meet her," Reed explains in a blog post describing her experiment.

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"I made sure my creation touched on every major facet of being truly horrible: mean, spoiled, lazy, racist, manipulative, and willfully ignorant, and I threw in a little gold digging just for funzies," Reed explains.

The result? 150 messages in just 24 hours.

"Maybe none of them read her profile, or maybe they thought that she was fun-crazy instead of actually-ruin-your-life crazy," she speculates.

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To test this theory, Reed responded to a few of the messages in a tone that matched that of her profile, reiterating her fake pregnancy and laziness. Yet despite claiming to participate in cyber-bullying, avoiding community service sentences and faking pregnancies, the men still pursued her.

While this might be enough to turn some off of online dating for good, Reed says she's not discouraged by the results of her experiment.

"Honestly, I’m not at all disillusioned with online dating. Or at least, I’m just as disillusioned with real-life dating,” she tells the Washington Post. “It’s all terrible.”