Elan Gale on the contemporary minefield that is internet dating,and why humour is often the sanest responseTell me about the inspiration for Tinder Nightmares?
About a year ago I was in New York, and I hadn’t been on a date in a while, and so I downloaded Tinder. I had been on Tinder before to varying success. I went on and I matched with what looked like a relatively pretty woman and she immediately invited me to her house. I responded with “hello”,and she responded with a wink and an offer to watch her dance naked. I quickly realised I was talking to a robot [spambot]. So I kept telling the robot that I needed encourage because I was on fire, pleading with it to call the police. And the robot kept sending me winky faces and asking me to watch it dance naked.
I was standing in a clothing store and uploaded a screenshot to Instagram and wrote: “This is totally a nightmare – you don’t even know if you are talking to a human being anymore.” And so that’s when Tinder Nightmares was born – standing in a Uniqlo in Times Square. I contemplate people contemplate you possess to sit down and arrive up with a strategy, or but I had this experience and I started this thing like four minutes later.
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Source: theguardian.com