Shine OnShallow or rightfully ticked off? Men meet Tinder date dressed in fat suit
Apparently the greatest online-dating fear men have is that their dates are fatter in person than they appear in profile pictures.
Women are scared of serial killers.
So YouTube pranksters Simple Pick launched a social experiment using Tinder users as their test subjects.
The pranksters enlisted the help of a pretty blonde friend who agreed to meet up with four men she met over Tinder. Before the dates, however, she dons prosthetics and a fat suit to appear considerably heavier.
As expected, the men weren’t impressed.
Why should they be?
The experiment didn’t reveal men to be shallow, it revealed them to be unimpressed with dishonesty. They were duped into a date they didn’t want. And of all the dating sites out there, Tinder is one of the most appearance-based. It’s not really an “inner beauty” app. You “like” the photos that interest you — hope those individuals like you back — and, most of all, you expect that the photos you’re seeing accurately represent the people you’re chatting with.
Considering how angry people get when Amazon sends them the wrong book, we can only imagine how upset these guys were with their not-as-advertised date.
If a woman was 40 years older than the woman in her photo, those dates would have likely ended poorly, too.
"It IS misleading and the person is lying and deliberately manipulating. That’s not the type of person I want to meet and it’s a horrible thing to start out on beginning a friendship/relationship. Call people shallow, jerks whatever you want but I don’t hold it against any of them for noping out of there in these kind of circumstances,” writes Reddit user blkells.
The pranksters tried to even the score by reversing the experiment, fattening up a male Tinder user before he met his unsuspecting dates.
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Perhaps surprisingly, the girls stuck around.
"I must have overestimated them," Reddit user brisingfreyja writes of the men in the first video. “I figured they would be uncomfortable, stick it out, but not talk after the date. Instead the majority left during the date. The other version where the guy wears the fat suit, the girls stick around, and two of them even plan dates. Blew my mind honestly.”
Some viewers credit the man’s “honesty” about the photos being old — and his conversation skills — as reasons why the girls might have stayed.
“The guy was also significantly more approachable, chatty and friendly than the woman. He talked about their jobs, interests, suggested hiking, dates, got up to hug them. She fished for compliments and pretended her pictures were different because makeup,” writes Reddit user boomsc.
What does this say about women? That we’re less shallow? Slower to write someone off? More desperate? Or maybe just better at noticing that our date is wearing a fat suit?
