What's your biggest turn-on when it comes to dating profile pictures?
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@ShnoofleBear either you voted dog/cat because you like them—and therefore missed the sarcasm, or you got the sarcasm, and picked dog/cat because you don't like them.
@alice I believe missing the "wrong answers only" plays a big role here
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@alice Lol. Just a mere thought of an AI generated avatar of a person with duck lips, while holding a gun, and my knees are getting weak.
*thud*
Sorry. I've fainted. It was too much.
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@alice honestly, if your picture were an AI-generated dog holding a gun doing duck lips with its dick out, I'd probably at least give you a second look
@alice (but is it the dog or the gun doing duck lips?)
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What's your biggest turn-on when it comes to dating profile pictures?
Wrong answers only.
@alice I tried, for years, to talk to the "guys holding fish" about if they would take me fishing as a date and it was always: "oh that was one time on my buddy's boat" or "oh, that was from a trip" or "we were on a charter boat"
They NEVER actually FISH!!!!
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@alice May I introduce you to Jonathan the Sturgeon Guy
@jef @alice I would have totally swiped right back in the day, since he's obvs a pro and I would have a lot to talk about with a fish bio
I used to swipe left if guys had photos where they were using a chainsaw with inadequate PPE
yes this meant that I got a variety of "sexy selfies" when my now-husband got a new pair of saw chaps
(I swiped right on him bc he had what I thought might be a Labor Notes reference on his profile AND IT WAS)
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@alice (but is it the dog or the gun doing duck lips?)
@eruonna both.
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What's your biggest turn-on when it comes to dating profile pictures?
Wrong answers only.
Photo taken inside a car!
WTAF???
And, if this is your only private space, does that mean you are married and cheating?
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@alice May I introduce you to Jonathan the Sturgeon Guy
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@alice I remember two pictures from my now-spouse's OkCupid dating profile.
One was a sexy beach pic. Specifically, it was a windswept, overcast, PNW beach and she was wearing foul weather gear and looking at a collection of seal bones.
The other was a fuck pic. Or rather, a clothed picture of her grinning and extending her middle finger, saying "fuck you!" She told me later this was in the event one of her exes found her profile.
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@alice Damn, missed the wrong answers only instruction.
I couldn't bear a dating app where everyone was properly dressed. -
@alice I tried, for years, to talk to the "guys holding fish" about if they would take me fishing as a date and it was always: "oh that was one time on my buddy's boat" or "oh, that was from a trip" or "we were on a charter boat"
They NEVER actually FISH!!!!
@pencilears @alice IDK I matched with a guy who was an actual fishing guide once
but I was like six inches taller than him and not Roman Catholic so it wasn't going to work, alas
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When this is done, I should commission an artist¹ to make this scientifically accurate, world's hottest profile pic, using AI.
¹ Like a real one, not a "prompt engineer".
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@alice honestly, if your picture were an AI-generated dog holding a gun doing duck lips with its dick out, I'd probably at least give you a second look
@alice or doing dick lips with its duck out?
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@alice I tried, for years, to talk to the "guys holding fish" about if they would take me fishing as a date and it was always: "oh that was one time on my buddy's boat" or "oh, that was from a trip" or "we were on a charter boat"
They NEVER actually FISH!!!!
Similar experience matching and chatting with women who have a picture of themselves river rafting/rock climbing/skydiving/outdoorsy-ing. I now subconsciously caption those photos "here's that one and only time ever I did [activity] that I have no intention of doing again but posted because I want you to think I am adventurous. Also, it was eight years ago."
I am betting that straight men do this constantly. Seems very much like a dude thing.
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What's your biggest turn-on when it comes to dating profile pictures?
Wrong answers only.
@alice Was looking for Blahaj, but then I see wrong anwsers only.
I am taking this literally
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@pencilears @alice IDK I matched with a guy who was an actual fishing guide once
but I was like six inches taller than him and not Roman Catholic so it wasn't going to work, alas
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@alice I tried, for years, to talk to the "guys holding fish" about if they would take me fishing as a date and it was always: "oh that was one time on my buddy's boat" or "oh, that was from a trip" or "we were on a charter boat"
They NEVER actually FISH!!!!
@pencilears @alice Well clearly you never met *this* guy (satire): https://archive.is/2e9sf (archive/unpaywall of https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/i-am-a-tinder-guy-holding-a-fish-and-i-will-provide-for-you)
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Similar experience matching and chatting with women who have a picture of themselves river rafting/rock climbing/skydiving/outdoorsy-ing. I now subconsciously caption those photos "here's that one and only time ever I did [activity] that I have no intention of doing again but posted because I want you to think I am adventurous. Also, it was eight years ago."
I am betting that straight men do this constantly. Seems very much like a dude thing.
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@pencilears @sarae @alice
OMG.
You all really want the fisher people?
I can't NOT meet fish heads in my line of work.
Even *I'* have caught a few. -
@pencilears @sarae @alice
OMG.
You all really want the fisher people?
I can't NOT meet fish heads in my line of work.
Even *I'* have caught a few.
have swiped right for the first one 
