Dating apps can be a bit of a minefield at the best of times; you just never know what horrors might be lurking behind that smiling picture you just swiped right on. And now, thanks to Snapchat’s new ‘gender swap’ face filter, there’s a whole new level of potential awkwardness to sift through.
The photo filter, another genius way for Snapchat to temporarily boost its users with an engaging plaything, is the latest craze sweeping social media right now. You might’ve noticed friends posting pics of themselves as members of the opposite sex with sometimes hilarious, sometimes uncomfortably attractive results. Who knew your best mate Dave was so sexy?
It’s all in good fun, though, and people can’t seem to get enough of the gender swap filter. 20-year-old British man Jake Askew got an incredibly flattering result from his and decided to put it to the Tinder test under the pseudonym ‘Jess.’ Hilariously, he was immediately swamped by matches and requests as 100s of guys swooned over the alluring charms of the fine young ‘lady.’
And it didn’t end there. Jake got a peek into the realities of online dating for many women, getting bombarded with all kinds of messages from mildly saucy to all levels of sexual predator-y. “One chap asked ‘Are you a piece of art because I want to nail you up against the wall,’” he told LADbible. “Another talked to me about his ‘pork sword,’ and one bloke simply asked me to ‘sit on his face.’”
“To be fair, I looked at myself with the Snapchat filter on and thought I looked unreal,” Jake continued. “I showed my mate, and we thought we’d make a Tinder just to see if I’d get any matches from it. Obviously, I didn’t expect to be liked by over 1600 thirsty lads.”
This is what Jake actually looks like
Speaking to Bored Panda, Jake said the experience has been funny, and also a quite educational for him. “The lads who I was matching with were flying through with a bit of everything,” he told us. “Some direct, some a bit more subtle. But yeah, it’s definitely surprising to see what some girls have to deal with on a regular basis.”
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“My friends think it’s hilarious, and they also a bit surprised this funny tweet has gone as far as it has. I had one mate that matched with ‘Jess’ on Tinder, but he claimed he knew it was me. I’m certain he didn’t! I won’t give away his name (Joe).”
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Here’s how people reacted to Jake’s experiment
All nice and funny, just started wondering if you gender-swapped your already-gender-swapped photo. How close would it come to original?
I'm curious about this gender swap thing, but not enough to download yet another app.
Thanks god some men understand what women go through with their own, unfiltered photos. It is rampant. And sad. I can't even imagine faking s**t on a dating profile, but I've fallen victim to 50% of matches who did just that. I know women do that too, (but I don't know of any who actually have tried that), but no one talks about the men who do the exact same thing - for sometimes a different reason. I despise liars.
Interesting If your reading this I hope you have a great day and know. “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.” John 3:16 NIV
I am very intrigued to see this gender swap app and what I would look like as a man...!! Hmmm...a little more and I may have to download and see!! But as for this story... I am so glad men get to see what some/most/even themselves...are like and how they come across on tinder and online dating etc... I tried tinder and allsorts, and it was always c*#k pics, or straight up fancy meeting for a f*#k.. now you guys see what we have to deal with!! Aint easy being a woman in the dating world lol.. luckily I'm out of that now! :p
Ain't easy? Please, come on. There may be a lot of spam to wade through, but you quite likely will also get a few decent guys. Compare that to the average male user who gets a few matches per month who won't even reply.
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Haha, social experiments! I've seen the world, from both siiides nowww....
Or it could just be that the genderswap filter is funny...
Load More Replies... All nice and funny, just started wondering if you gender-swapped your already-gender-swapped photo. How close would it come to original?
I'm curious about this gender swap thing, but not enough to download yet another app.
Thanks god some men understand what women go through with their own, unfiltered photos. It is rampant. And sad. I can't even imagine faking s**t on a dating profile, but I've fallen victim to 50% of matches who did just that. I know women do that too, (but I don't know of any who actually have tried that), but no one talks about the men who do the exact same thing - for sometimes a different reason. I despise liars.
Interesting If your reading this I hope you have a great day and know. “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.” John 3:16 NIV
I am very intrigued to see this gender swap app and what I would look like as a man...!! Hmmm...a little more and I may have to download and see!! But as for this story... I am so glad men get to see what some/most/even themselves...are like and how they come across on tinder and online dating etc... I tried tinder and allsorts, and it was always c*#k pics, or straight up fancy meeting for a f*#k.. now you guys see what we have to deal with!! Aint easy being a woman in the dating world lol.. luckily I'm out of that now! :p
Ain't easy? Please, come on. There may be a lot of spam to wade through, but you quite likely will also get a few decent guys. Compare that to the average male user who gets a few matches per month who won't even reply.
Load More Replies... Haha, social experiments! I've seen the world, from both siiides nowww....
Or it could just be that the genderswap filter is funny...
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