Rage bait. Yes, the app is creepy, but the first actual quote the article gives is in this paragraph:
And then there’s the phrase. Post after post across the app uses some version of the same line: “he collects women like Pokémon cards.”
None of the quotes truly support the headline, imo.
Also, that app is creepy af and should probably be illegal on privacy grounds.
The data these women are spilling on men is outrageous, they’re putting up full names, birthdays, photos that often identify addresses and making claims that are straight up defamatory.
It needs to be shut down as the users have no right to be sharing others information in this way.
Before anyone throws around accusations I’m married and I’m not featured on this disgusting app.
If men did the same thing to women, people would have a much different reaction.
And I get that sexism makes it completely reasonable for women to act differently and/or defend themselves but that’s not what this is.
Pokemon - ✅
Pokemon TCG reselling - 🚩
Wasn’t that the app that leaked a massive database of women’s IDs?
Just checked, it happened twice. https://consumerrights.wiki/w/Tea_Dating_Advice
I think that leak is probably why this kind of analysis is possible at all.
Thank you for introducing me to this website.
Imagine this app existing for the opposite sex.
How is this even implemented? How do you keep a certain sex off of the app? Especially trans people, what do they do with them? And non-binary people too.
They require video or id confirmation. It’s creepy as hell. Either a “video selfie” or give photo id
Type of girl that uses this app is not one im interested in, none of my friends do, their tea app is their gcs and it’s prob more effective
Graded Combat Sport?
Global Cdefense Sinitiative?
…glasgow coma scale?
shit attracts shit nothing new here.
I don’t care. Why would you want to be with a woman who isn’t accepting of pop culture?
Even grandmas play Pokemon Go GTFO of here.
It’s more about their hobby of defamation and libel.
Be thankful that the app is filtering out the bad apples in advanced.
Because it’s dumb? Idk.
You’re dumb
So is smoking but as long as they don’t blow the smoke it my face it doesn’t bother me.
Is there a dating app just for geeks and nerds? Easy as hell to find like-minded men; I haven’t talked to any like-minded women since high school. I don’t really like hanging out with super serious people. They never laugh at my jokes.
conventions and pen and paper rpg groups are the best bet.
It has an fdroid application and their whole thing is about being open source and ad free, so I assume the people using it are one of us
https://f-droid.org/packages/com.alovoa.expo/
*edit
the app is a waste of time, fails to create an account but you can on the website. then fails to log in.
stick to the website and create a webapp for it
Hmmm, better chance this thing will work then a lot of others.
Slow news day
Clearly the author pulled a Slowpoke card
The app is women-only. If you’re a man, you can’t download it, can’t search it, and can’t respond to anything on it.
So … what’s stopping men from setting up a burner device, pretending to be a woman, and using the app?
likely only way is using your ID/facial recognition.
I guess, if you’re that into the waspish drama-queens that gossip more than breathe, sure. Got a thing for Karens, Jessicas, et al?
It would be really nice if this could exist without being petty. I dated a guy who lied to me about having been in jail for nearly two decades for beating his mother to death, and I would love to be able to warn others about him. I have a google alert set up for his name and got a ping a few years ago that he was arrested for violating a restraining order taken out by the woman he dated after me and felt awful that I wasn’t able to warn her.
It’s both predictable and annoying that people are using it to be petty, but the concept is still useful, even if some use it in a way I find shallow. I don’t think it’s wild to imagine that some women would see this report and take it as a green flag. I met up with my husband for the first time after we matched on a dating app to play magic the gathering with him, so I know that some women look for nerds when dating. I previously went on a date with a different guy to play magic (I like seeing how someone plays, wins, and loses, plus it’s a low pressure first date activity that helps ease conversation), and he showed me his Khorne tattoo. He said he just really identified with the character when I asked why he had chosen Khorne, and I absolutely took that as a red flag, not because it’s nerdy, but because I don’t want to date someone who identifies with Khorne.
I would 100% support a twin app for men about women, to be clear, and I don’t know what the solution would be for non cishetero dating, but I wouldn’t be against any of them.
I’m not sure how to do it in a way that can’t be abused, sadly. My instinct is that maybe domestic violence (DV) crimes should be public knowledge - i.e. offenders, offences and sentences (but not victim information) should be on a publicly searchable database - but I’m not sure what unintended consequences there might be to this. My gut tells me that women reporting DV might experience more backlash from violent partners because reporting the DV puts the offender on a ‘list’, and that maybe it could encourage some abusers to vexatiously make false accusations to try to get someone on the list, but I don’t know how likely either of those would be. There’s not a simple solution, but we need to keep searching for the difficult solution because the status quo leads to way too many women dying at the hands of current or former partners.
Show me a reality where it doesn’t devolve into a platform for stalking.
I can see that, and if this were the only way for people to look up a member of the public without them having created a public profile, I wouldn’t support it. It would be much easier to stalk someone through the websites where you can input a phone number and get all the associated addresses and additional contact information, though. In jurisdictions where those are allowed, I think the information shared on this type of platform is much less useful for stalking and more useful for legitimate purposes.
Although I would be curious about how a platform like this would work legally in a jurisdiction with solid privacy laws.
Nah, sorry. The excuse women use is safety, it’s just gossip at industrial scale.
I’m gonna build a men-only app for libeling women. We’ll call it Dox.
From my original comment:
I would 100% support a twin app for men about women, to be clear, and I don’t know what the solution would be for non cishetero dating, but I wouldn’t be against any of them.
I’m not bothered if you build an app, though I don’t know why people would want to use it if it were intentionally libelous.
Why do they use Tea? Gossip. Gossip doesn’t have to be true, just interesting.
Don’t take the actions of random bitches on a social media site any more seriously than their existence on any other site
Chuds already did that, furious at the idea that women were talking to each other about men and even doing things they don’t approve of.
Edit: awww the Lemmycels are mad ;)
I don’t know any single guys that collect Pokémon cards. I know two guys that collect Pokémon cards, are married and have children. Maybe women don’t want autistic children because likelihood of that is admittedly increased in this small sample. They’re missing out but you can’t force people to like something they don’t.
I’m sure if two people are dating and one says they like pokemon, it’s cool haha whatever. But if the dating profile is all the other person has to go off of, then they can make assumptions like, well he could be too childish or too nerdy, etc. lol
I’m not sure what you’re being down votes for.
I assume people read your post as "people who collect pokemon cards are autistic " but i assumed it was the two people you know who collect cards and are married are both autistic hence mentioning your small sample size
My original comment was a bit more direct so I updated it to clarify a little and you probably read that version.
