The Dating App SCAM That Is Destroying The Dating Pool

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[stamp thudding] I mentioned a few times in the past that, um, I met my wife from, uh, online dating back in the early days of the online dating, um, the existence of online dating, specifically at the time it was eHarmony, and that was well over a decade ago. Actually, it was like fifteen years ago, uh, when these platforms were surging in popularity. They had just sort of come into existence recently, and there were plenty of independent dating apps and websites, mostly websites, there weren't a lot of apps at the time, all competing with one another to attract as many users as possible. And because an enormous amount of venture capital money was flowing into the industry, most of these dating services weren't worried about monetizing everything or nickel and diming their users. They were trying to be the best platform in a very crowded market. Now, in the case of eHarmony specifically, they came up with a unique idea, a massive questionnaire consisting of more than four hundred and fifty questions, and that's how they matched people. The whole point was to ensure that you had as much information as possible about the person that you were about to talk to. And when you did choose to talk to someone,