Helena Bonham Carter stars in an ad for Bumble UK

[arellaj]

https://instagram.com/p/CIwgSNtjqCH

In addition to wanting you to buy a vibrator, Helena Bonham Carter wants you to join the dating app Bumble! Dating is hard enough as it is and during a pandemic, it's harder. Placate your nosy family members who ask you why you're still single during the holidays by joining a dating app I guess?

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Comments

[jellycar]

lmao love that you made this a post

also no i’m not! i sent a load of dm’s asking people for a friend pass to raya though. idk wtf dating is going to be like after covid, i already hate it

[arellaj]

yassss get that raya d

[nutmegdealer]

is raya that much better, though?

[jellycar]

nope i’m just curious

[laminy]

No to dating apps, no to love.

The ad is cute enough though, I suppose.

[fernandocolunga]

ive never been on a dating app because i live in a town... just big enough to run into one of my coworkers or one of their colleagues i also know so NO.
I miss living in a bigger city i think it'd be more fun

[thespockingdead]

I gave dating apps my best shot last year around this time, and it was one of the most demoralizing and depressing experiences of my life! Never again lmao

[kjesta]

It feels super awkward. I find it so hard to try to connect w ppl on an app if the elephant in the room from the word go is 'will we or won't we (be romantically compatible/date/fuck/?), there's no breathing room for friendship first.

[thespockingdead]

Yes, it's so uncomfortable and unnatural! Every conversation had all the stress of a job interview. I especially hated when guys would immediately ask if I wanted to go out - I wouldn't just agree to go out with a random stranger who approached me in public and asked me that within a minute of meeting, so why would I agree to it on an app where I can barely even tell what this guy really looks like?

[kjesta]

Srsly! I mean I get wanting to meet bc you might have a completely different chemistry in person but I grew up in the generation that was told to not give out RL infos to internet strangers and a lot of it has stuck, just meeting some rando is still an effort to me. I don't mind if it's someone I've been talking to longer like my online buddies but it it's abt dating from the get go... I'm v distrustful.

[kjesta]

I don't rly get flirted with by ppl and after some lukewarm OKCupid dates I thought I'd give it another go this year, feeling better after 2 years of therapy. Well. That didn't work out for obvs reasons lol. Thx 2020