Culture Tinder introduces height verification - Or OP falls for an early April Fools joke

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Introducing Height Verification
29 MARCH 2019
Say goodbye to height fishing.
Let’s be real, when it comes to online dating — honesty is the best policy. Yes, your height matters as long as every other shallow aspect of physical attraction does. Please try not to take it to heart.
It’s come to our attention that most of you 5’10ers out there are actually 5’6. The charade must stop. This type of dishonestly doesn’t just hurt your matches — it hurts us, too. Did it ever occur to you that we’re 5’6 and actually love our medium height? Did it ever occur to you that honesty is what separates humans from sinister monsters? Of course not.
You were only thinking of yourself. Well, height-lying ends here. To require everyone under 6’ to own up to their real height, we’re bringing truthfulness back into the world of online dating.
Introducing Tinder’s Height Verification Badge (HVB), because yes -- sometimes it matters
It’s the tool we’ve had in our back-pockets for years, but we were hoping your honesty would allow us to keep it there. Our verification tool is super easy to use, and extremely hard to misuse.
Here’s how it works:
Simply input your true, accurate height with a screenshot of you standing next to any commercial building. We’ll do some state-of-the-art verifying and you’ll receive your badge directly on your profile.

Oh, and by the way? Only 14.5% of the U.S. male population is actually 6’ and beyond. So, we’re expecting to see a huge decline in the 80% of males on Tinder who are claiming that they are well over 6 feet. That’s fine by us — as long as we’re all living our truths.
Tinder’s HVB is coming soon to a phone near you.

 

[Voltaire]

No, it's because I'm a traditionalist in some ways. I can't get laid because I'm insufferable.

It's impossible to be traditional when the person who hires and fires you is an obese middle aged womanlet. Thanks 21st Century.

 

[Ali della Fenice]

But how does this affect womanlets?

nothing except extreme obesity affects them. And in some cases not even that.
I think lots of people do like a short bitch they can throw around.

 

[Voltaire]

nothing except extreme obesity affects them. And in some cases not even that.
I think lots of people do like a short bitch they can throw around.

We are missing a trolling oppurtunity here to add women's weight or pregnancy status to their tinder profiles via an online petition. It wouldn't be hard to frame it in a feminist equal opportunity light and shill it.

 

[AnOminous]

You mean I can finally filter out chicks under 6’0 and get the tall girl of my dreams?

Unless they have a nine inch taint I'm not interested.

 

[PantsFreeZone]

If you are 5'11 and under as a male, are you even really a man? No.

And females over 140lbs aren't women.

We live in a society.

 

[Miss Misery]

That's different, it's normal to lie about your weight when you're a girl. A guy lying about his height is pathetic.

Every guy I've met who said he was a height under 5'11" was lying about it and adding at least an inch or two. It's totally normal.

Manlets! Reclaim your manhood and embrace your averageness! You don't have to have Short Man Syndrome! Just be True and Honest! And maybe look into shoe lifts if you're really that insecure, but jeez you're never going to get a girl if your self-esteem is that thenthitive.

 

[Rotollo]

I don't get why everyone bitches about being a manlet
that just makes getting a taller GF then you easier which is the true way to live life.

 

[Keystone]

You mean I can finally filter out chicks under 6’0 and get the tall girl of my dreams?

I'm sorry dude, thoughts and prayers...
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A fellow man of culture

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[Yuusha-sama]

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At least his kids aren't manlet.

 

[Ali della Fenice]

I don't get why everyone bitches about being a manlet
that just makes getting a taller GF then you easier which is the true way to live life.

If you luck out. They usually want their charming prince to be taller than them.

 

[Mr. A. L. Mao]

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I'm actually tall af, I just want my kids to be so as well
And it's more intimate with a taller woman as opposed to someone with a foot or more of height difference

 

[Stock Image Photographer]

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More than anything I'm impressed that this dude was able to bridal carry a woman who comes up to his chest while kneeling.

 

[RG 448]

This really isn't okay. It's like big tech keeps picking at men constantly to try and hold us back. It seems like everything they do is to enable women to become more and more vain and disadvantage nice guys who just want to have a chance.

tfw when height verification is the only thing stopping you from getting laid

 

[Count groudon]

I know that, but what about shadows, the sun, weird shoes, and a million other things?
The basic idea is totally doable, but saying that you've certified something implies another level of certainty that they just can't provide, and people who are going to lie about their heights will just take the 5 extra minutes to trick the system.
I guess it's possible their marketing team is massively overselling this, in which case I look forward to a million dumbass thinkpieces.

I think if it requires a full body shot, it could pretty easily calculate the height of the person’s shoes or any other trick by comparing it to the height of the building.

 

[TerribleIdeas™]

Genius idea, honestly. This could be very helpful in weeding out people. It's not so much the height that I'm concerned with. It's the lying that bothers me.

But how does this affect womanlets?

And yet the responses from women when Tinder was asked about weight verification were priceless; 99% of women were mad as hell that they were expected to not be able to lie about their weight, and all their bullshit camera angles were getting called out.

 

[Shroom King]

I think age verification is way more useful. Does Tinder do that?

Dealing with liars is part and parcel of online dating, but a significant lie about age goes from annoying/pathetic to creepy.

Yes, they do age verification, but it is apparently shitty. Who would have thought that an app revolving around no-strings-attached hookups would result in people getting hurt?

Tinder and Grindr are being questioned about age verification after a report on child abuse

UK culture secretary is investigating

www.theverge.com

 

[Okkervils]

And yet the responses from women when Tinder was asked about weight verification were priceless; 99% of women were mad as hell that they were expected to not be able to lie about their weight, and all their bullshit camera angles were getting called out.

Totally different.

 

[Miss Misery]

Totally different.

So I can't tell if this is serious or not, but I'm gonna bite.

Most people can't what a woman's real weight is because women have been lying about their weight for so fucking long that it's caused a weird dissonance in perception and reality. And now they feel like they HAVE to.

When a woman tells someone how much she weighs, people go OMG I thought you weighed [20-50lbs less]. Yesterday a friend of mine told me she weighed 160lbs. I said yeah, that's about what I figured, you're 5'10", right? But she's a size 4 with huge tits and she's really strong.

But I'll bet you money on her Tinder profile she probably puts 140. Because a man automatically reads 160 and thinks UGH FATTY and doesn't think about the fact that she's tall and muscular. Or he's got filters that weed out anyone over 140 (his loss, imo, but whatever).

Also each woman also carries her weight differently. My 170lbs looks different than that chick's 170lbs because I lift and eat whatever, and she diets and sits around all day.

Soooo yeah. Totally different.

 

[Captain Ahab]

One of the shortest dudes in high school went out with one of the hottest skanks, so it’s not black and white. The real disaster is when you’re a manlet, ugly, fat, socially awkward, and poor.

 

[Bonedome]

One of the shortest dudes in high school went out with one of the hottest skanks, so it’s not black and white. The real disaster is when you’re a manlet, ugly, fat, socially awkward, and poor.

What's the cut off for not being poor? I'm fucked on all those other points.