— ani acopian (@aniacopian) February 4, 2020 [Read: Scam victims warn fake accounts will ruin Facebook’s dating site] As satire goes, this one is pretty elaborate. Every potential paramour comes complete with a price and reviews. You can select them by height and love language (“acts of service,” or “physical touch”). It’ll no doubt give you a smile if you’re just glancing at it, but once you look at it for a few minutes, it starts to look pretty damned creepy.
A dating site to help you with #ValentinesDay lol ? https://t.co/1M0lPRn90B — Product Hunt (@ProductHunt) February 5, 2020 It was created by Ani Acopian, Suzy Shinn, Morgan Gruer, and Thinko. The latter is an animation studio that’s done other parody sites before, such as ScamDaddy and WhoPaid99Cents. It’s already a hit on the internet, as you might expect. Someone’s already done an “unboxing” of one of their dates:
— ?? (@AnnaRussett) February 4, 2020 I wasn’t feeling truly uncomfortable until I saw the “Best Seller” tag above Amy’s picture. Intellectually, I know it’s amusing, but my visceral reaction when I see the capitalist commodification of human romance taken to the logical extreme was horror. As in, this would be funny if it didn’t also feel like, um, the future.
— suzy shinn (@suzyshinn) February 4, 2020 If you’re interested, take a look for yourself here. You can also get your face on the site if that’s a thing you want to do.
