Alex answered the questions in a random order so I wouldn't know which one I was going to get to illustrate. I reckon I got one of the most difficult, but then I always think that.
In the end I quite enjoyed it though. Here it is...
As some of you may know, I've been on OK Cupid for quite a white. That 'quite a while' kind of says it all - it's clearly not proved successful at it's intended purpose, and to be honest, I don't ever expect it to be. All I know is, going on dates with complete strangers from the internet is a very special kind of scary fun, and I've enjoyed the whole experience a lot.
I've also, strangely, enjoyed all the inevitable not so fun bits... Creepy messages propositioning marriage and 'make many babies together', 5 star ratings from thoroughly strange/disturbing men, and some charmingly awkward meetings of not-very-like minds.
So I decided to create some kind of summary of my (and presumably, most other people's) experiences on OK Cupid, and this is it. Click to embiggen.
Oh, and if you're a charming man who thinks we might get along, let's go on a date! :)
(I don't consider this one of my finer graphic design/illustration/artistic moments. But it was fun. So I'm sharing it here...)
1 comment:
hi Emma.
Haha, well you know I'm on OKC too, but all of my time is spent there going down the route in your diagram that says "Send Message -> be ignored -> retry"
I'm pretty certain that it's all the girls getting attention on that site. Lucky for you you got talked to!
There was only 1 'success' for me on there, if you can call it that.
Last year one girl actually *messaged me* which was surprising, seeing as she's the Only One who did.
We got talking on MSN and shared some interests, and she persuaded me into a meet-up in Plymouth. We did, and had a walk around town and into comic/bookstores, on a windy cold day, me being my awkward nervous self.
After that day we talked more on MSN and she started randomly mentioning how she'd had sex with a stranger at 2 random parties and he was now her boyfriend.
I cut contact after that because basically...what the hell? You get my drift!
Hope you had some more interesting meets than my singular event!
-Tom (Destro)
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