A New York City woman used Tinder to host her own real-life episode of Singled Out
You know what? Dating sucks. It’s expensive, time consuming, and emotionally fraught—and that’s if you get lucky enough to get past the tedious initial getting-to-know-you stage. (Or maybe we’re just lazy and emotionally unavailable.) Anyway, Gothamist frames a New York City woman’s staging of her own personal, real-life episode of Singled Out over the weekend as “duping” men into a “mass Tinder date.” But we’re simply impressed at her efficiency.
A 22-year-old social media intern named Spencer Mullen spoke with the local news site about his experience with a self-proclaimed actress/model/singer named Natasha, who matched with him on Tinder but told him she was too “busy” with a “presentation” to meet up until the following month. And sure enough, a month later she invited him to meet her at a “free show” her “friend” was DJing in Manhattan. And technically, she wasn’t lying.
Upon arriving at the “show” yesterday afternoon around 6 p.m., Mullen found Union Square full of dozens of confused-looking men who had all been invited there by this mysterious Tinder match. Then, flanked by bodyguards, Natasha ascended the stage that had been set up in the middle of the square and addressed the thirsty throng with, according to another man who live-tweeted the show, “a Hunger Games speech about what it’s gonna take to date her.”