This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at UCSB chapter.
Ah, Tinder. Whether you’ve swiped right a few times yourself or just heard the stories from your girlfriends on wine night, Tinder certainly has a reputation as bringing out the absolute worst in guys. It only takes a few horror stories and some well timed screenshots to see how hard it is to find romance through an app. These are legitimate conversations and experiences from UCSB girls using Tinder. Don’t worry, we’ve maintained the guys’ anonymity by pasting adorable food over their faces.
Riiiiight. Good luck with that, Julian.
“I was talking to this guy for a while and we actually starting seeing each other pretty regularly – he even came with me to my sorority’s date party. When he asked me to be his date for his fraternity’s date party, I was admittedly ecstatic about going. So night of the date party, I rushed home from class (roughly 8pm) did my hair, fine-tuned my makeup, and was even prepared to sacrifice my feet for my cutest pair of heels. Then what happens next? Nothing – literally nothing. Dude doesn’t respond to my texts or calls all night until 11PM asking “What’s up?” I was literally about to crawl through the phone and rip his dick off – good thing he didn’t have much to lose. Never heard from him again.”
I think I’ll stick with “hate you.”
This went from 0 to 100 and then back to 0 real quick.
“There was a guy whose “about” section on Tinder was like “I’m THE Tyler Codes” and of course I hadn’t ever heard of him so I Googled the fool and discovered that he had starred in a made-for-tv movie as a superhero. He was really hot and I can’t believe that I agreed to this but we met for coffee. At coffee, he was like “what’s your sexual fantasy?” And I was kind of thrown off because this was the first time we’d met and I asked him to answer first. He looked me in the eye and told me that he likes to lick butthole.”
“I was talking to a few guys on Tinder, but there was only one that I actually thought might lead to an actual date. So we talked for a week or so and I kept hoping he’d ask me out or something… but then a day passed and no response. Then three days. Eventually I gave up and realized it wasn’t gonna happen. Only problem is he works at one of my fave restaurants in IV. The last THREE times I’ve been in there, he was working. I’m pretty sure he recognized me, but both of us just pretend like we don’t know each other. The things I’ll do for food…”
Just keep doing you, Calvin.