A New York woman has sneakily tricked dozens of men into going on a mass Tinder date. The result? A very bizarre mix of The Bachelor and Survivor.
The woman in question is reportedly Natasha Vaponte – an actress, model and singer – who told each of her dates to meet her at NYC’s Union Square were they were going to ‘see her friend DJ’.
When they arrived, however, they found they had been invited there to compete for Vaponte’s love along with dozens of her other men.
One of the potential suitors, Twitter user @bvdhai, lived to tell the tale and shared his experiences on Twitter.
His 26-tweet thread has now gone viral with his original tweet gaining over 57,000 likes and 26,000 retweets.
Warning: there’s a bit of foul language, but poor Bvdha just got romantically scammed, so we’ll give him a break.
He then described the ‘date’ itself.
And then the moment when he realised.
At this point he decided not to compete.
Is love officially dead? Maybe a little, but at least we got a laugh out of it.
What do you think of Natasha’s tactics? Would you do something similar? Tell us in a comment.
Dating translated – because someone has to do it.
Top Comments
The person who actually planned and coordinated this wasn't her but they're
both insufferable, miserable, pathetic, uneducated, marginally successful douchebags. Everyone has already passed judgement on him and the loser woman with no talent, Ms. Vaponte.
10 points for the phrase ‘fallopian fortitude’! I don’t blame him for leaving.
I can see it being framed as exploitation if a dude did it. What a horrible thing to do.
Right? A guy ( probably trying to make a video go viral or something) gets a whole bunch of women he met on Tinder to show up and compete in his own personal ‘Bachelor’? There would be outrage. It would have been much funnier if all the men she tricked had just left.
That would have been pretty funny, everyone just turns around and leaves on her haha.
At the very least he'd be getting called tacky and self absorbed.
I guess it's that "getting older is softening me" but if I matched with someone on a dating app, chatted/got along with them well enough to want to meet them, arranged a meet up and then when I got there it was that, I'd be pretty crushed/crest fallen.
Feminist bloggers would use it as fodder for weeks!