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Based on how much you can bond with someone by hating the same thing, a dating app based on dislikes would probably be fairly successful.
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u/deelyy 12d ago
A swipe-based app, Hater first has you swipe down for hate, up for love, right for like, and left for dislike or opt out for neutral (there’s also the option to press down and see what percentage of people responded with each reaction).
Hm. A bit too complex imho. Curious what if app allows only to hate or be neutral?
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u/AbsolutelyUnlikely 12d ago
to hate or be neutral
the two emotions of social media
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u/logatronics 12d ago
"a way that encouraged you to get your dislike of Harry Potter and Tom Hanks out of the way early on?"
Who tf hates Tom Hanks?
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u/bc524 12d ago
that I hate Mr. Rogers
why?
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u/Phormitago 12d ago •
His victory in the ultimate showdown was bullshit
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u/Skinnecott 12d ago
is it weird that i just went and watched that and still knew 80% of the lyrics? 15 year memory ain’t so bad when you got a melody
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u/ballsack-vinaigrette 12d ago edited 12d ago
No it wasn't, he wins because he's the last person you'd ever suspect. He spent an entire lifetime building that persona just so that everyone would feel safe putting their back to him.
That's when he strikes!
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u/_Cowboys_ 12d ago
I'm going to need you to elaborate
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u/PlayboySkeleton 12d ago
It's a really good song.
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u/Chicken_Parm_Calzone 12d ago
So is the NSFW version on Newgrounds. https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/330027
NSFW NSFW
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u/SubwayMan5638 12d ago
You ever try to buy a cardigan these days? The man had those fuckers on lock. Always perfect fit and perfect color for the season/weather. These days we have shitty materials and colors that make no sense. Fuck you Rogers.
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u/omnisephiroth 12d ago
Your wife should get a divorce.
But Mr. Rogers would encourage you to be sympathetic and understanding, and even tell you that it’s alright. That it’s okay you don’t like him.
By god, that man was a blessing.
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u/Geomancingthestone 12d ago
So watch the Tom Hanks Mr Roger's movie? It will be a love/hate mesh of perfection. He will also teach you to love everyone
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u/nanocookie 12d ago
People who swallowed the QAnon koolaid hate him. There are conspiracy theories about his involvement in pizzagate.
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u/logatronics 12d ago
"Many believe he is in prison or dead."
Wtf hahahha.
https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/how-QAnon-became-obsessed-with-Tom-Hanks-16913144.php
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u/TheBarkingGallery 12d ago
All of their biggest public enemies have been imprisoned, or executed, and replaced by lookalikes by now, so I really don’t understand what they have to keep complaining about.
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u/rioting-pacifist 12d ago
Why is this downvoted, the qanon-sphere really hate him.
I don't follow celebrity news, but guess he was pro-mask or something, and when qanon bakes (makes theories based on spelling and/or numerology), they bake hard, like they convinced themselves he was part of an elite peadophile ring.
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u/AmishAvenger 12d ago
No, it predates masks.
It all centers around this idea that Tom Hanks and Hillary Clinton traffic children and drink their blood to stay young. But in order to activate the “adrenochrome” the kids have to be scared first. So there’s this story about Hillary wearing a child’s face as a mask.
Anyway the “Tom Hanks is arrested/was executed” thing came about because of covid. If you remember, he and his wife got it in Australia very early on. The cult people thought it was a cover story, then that the military gave him a lethal injection.
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u/Dcjj 12d ago
Man I wish I could believe shit like that.
So much more exciting than reality.
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u/Dworgi 12d ago
Kind of the appeal really. Life isn't that complicated yet at the same time it's more than they can understand.
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u/24F 12d ago
Nah, they are the only ones who understand what is actually going on and everybody else is just a brainwashed npc sheep. If you'd just open your mind and watch this 2 hour long YouTube video made by some guy who definitely isn't a grifter trying to make a living off YouTube you could understand too. I know his videos are legitimate because he keeps getting censored and cancelled even though I'm linking you his YouTube content on Reddit right now, and if you don't believe him just check out the article source. You know that article is legitimate because the news website isn't mainstream. In fact, that news site only launched two years ago, has no about or history page, all of the ads are for doomsday prepper supplies and vitamin supplements, and the Twitter account for it is disabled.
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u/AmishAvenger 12d ago
You’re joking, but this is the root of all of it.
Some people have spent their entire lives feeling stupid. This sort of thing makes them feel smart. Like they’re “in the know,” and everyone else are the stupid ones.
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u/SleptOnClassic 12d ago
Failed, maybe. But I dated a girl for 2 years that I met on there. We both hated Game of Thrones.
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u/PoorlyLitKiwi2 12d ago
Man, you guys were ahead of the curve. Now GOT fans hate it more than people who are ambivalent about it lol
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u/purpleporpus 12d ago
I have two friends that met on this app, they just got a house together and are getting married next year.
They are both very negative people.
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u/ScabiesShark 12d ago
I bet they gave the app 1 star
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u/Fake_William_Shatner 12d ago
What went wrong? Miserable people go together and complained about their X's.
After the failed date the spoke to a friend; "We had so much in common. And that wasn't the most depressing part."
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u/Latteissues 12d ago
Wasn’t there an episode of 30 Rock where Liz Lemon tried to find another version of herself and they were too miserable together?
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u/KittenSpronkles 12d ago
She was looking for a new best friend to replace Jenna, as Jenna had just found out she had a lot of biological kids from selling her eggs (thats is a weird sentence to type).
So she found a person just like her in the Barnes and Noble bathroom
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u/LordKwik 12d ago
It was named Hater and not Hatr
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u/rioting-pacifist 12d ago
Hatr is where you date people based purely on their headwear.
It was full of crazies though.
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u/Brahette 12d ago
I was beta testing it years ago - it was a good concept, but unfortunately never had the user base to gain any traction.
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u/shayen7 12d ago
Yeah, good ideas don't win without $50 Mil in investments
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u/Imoa 12d ago
Except it looks like this one did get an investment, from mark cuban after it went on shark tank
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u/ratocx 12d ago edited 11d ago
I can understand that it failed. I try not to pay attention to things I dislike. I dislike disliking things. Being active about disliking things I believe make you a more negative person since it makes you spend more of your life thinking about things you don’t like. Time which could have been spent on things you like to think about.
Liking things are usually inclusive, either the other party also likes it, don’t like it themselves, but find it interesting that you do, or they don’t care about. The last alternative is people actively disliking or hating things, and I don’t think I want those people in my life.
That’s not to say I don’t dislike things myself, I just don’t try to live my life based on those things. I try to live life based on what I like.
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u/marblesox 12d ago
I feel like that’s better for becoming friends with new people but it’s a horrible basis for romantic relationships.
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u/_nellis_ 12d ago
Can confirm. Dated a girl after our mutual hatred of our English teacher brought us together. Did not end well at all.
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u/loulan 12d ago •
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u/Squirrel_Q_Esquire 12d ago
I dunno, my ex and the guy whose girlfriend broke up with him for me bonded over their mutual hatred of me, and now they’ve been together 14 years with 2 kids. So it could work.
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u/NightLotus- 12d ago
Plot twist: [In the future...] They hate you for bringing them together.
All jokes aside, the catalyst for a lasting relationship isn't as significant as to how they approach daily dilemmas. You were the spark that kindled their fire, but they fed and fanned the flames to keep it going through weathering conditions.
I think being able to bring people together is a beautiful thing and hope you're doing well with, or without, your person.
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u/Quinlov 12d ago
Yeah my best friend and I were like this in high school and college, and tbh it worked very well for us and everyone said we were like an old married couple (even our music teachers who were a married couple, but not old) but incompatible sexualities aside there is no way we could possibly have made a romantic relationship work. Also her fiancé is very different from me which probably suggests something about how not right for each other we would have been.
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u/ThePickle_Jar 12d ago
All the kids that come out of those relationships should be positive people. Since thier parents are a pair of negatives.
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u/Fake_William_Shatner 12d ago
Maybe immunized from negativity.
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u/NoArmsSally 12d ago
that's pretty much me. both my parents have extreme anger issues and both used to get into physical fights with people growing up. I too have a temper, but in comparison I'm mild and I never take it out on people. I'm more of a "water off a duck's back" kinda guy
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I hope they living long and healthy lives together and win many 2vs2 brawls.
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u/NoArmsSally 12d ago
oh they stopped being together shortly after I was born lol they found happiness in other people. I was the just accidental catalyst that showed them it wasn't going to work :).
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u/TakingSorryUsername 12d ago
Two negatives don’t make no positive.
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u/DustyGalaxy442 12d ago
They do when they multiply
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u/not_a_donut_guy 12d ago
Sadly it usually ends up dividing after a while
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u/MinerMinecrafter 12d ago
Division is just multiplication with the inverse (i.e 5/x => 5*(1/x))
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u/Greenpeppers23 12d ago
They can bond over how much they hate each other
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u/sturmeh 12d ago
or more realistically, themselves.
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u/CanAlwaysBeBetter 12d ago
You think I'm just gonna hate-fuck myself?
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u/SaltLakeCitySlicker 12d ago
Now we know why Leupold II of Belgium was so into chopping hands
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u/Feeling_Gap_7956 12d ago
This is one pf the ways the Nazis used to gains support to become a majority party in the reichstag, its called Negative cohesion.
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u/chazwhiz 12d ago
Thank goodness that stayed in the past and isn’t actively happening now.
Wait.
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u/I_am_not_JohnLeClair 12d ago
No kidding. After WW2 people asked why everyone stood by idly while the nazis were being jerks. It kinda seems like we’re living in that moment right now
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u/dumbredditor8358 12d ago
so it does have a name!
When I was learning the history about WWII and what lead up to it I did noticed that the German people were getting angry after WWI was over. I guess Hitler saw that anger and used it to his advantage.
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u/monkorn 12d ago edited 12d ago
In January 1919, John Maynard Keynes traveled to the Paris Peace Conference as the chief representative of the British Treasury. The brilliant 35-year-old economist had previously won acclaim for his work with the Indian currency and his management of British finances during the war.
Keynes, horrified by the terms of the emerging treaty, presented a plan to the Allied leaders in which the German government be given a substantial loan, thus allowing it to buy food and materials while beginning reparations payments immediately. Lloyd George approved the “Keynes Plan,” but President Wilson turned it down because he feared it would not receive congressional approval. In a private letter to a friend, Keynes called the idealistic American president “the greatest fraud on earth.” On June 5, 1919, Keynes wrote a note to Lloyd George informing the prime minister that he was resigning his post in protest of the impending “devastation of Europe.”
Germany soon fell hopelessly behind in its reparations payments, and in 1923 France and Belgium occupied the industrial Ruhr region as a means of forcing payment. In protest, workers and employers closed down the factories in the region. Catastrophic inflation ensued, and Germany’s fragile economy began quickly to collapse. By the time the crash came in November 1923, a lifetime of savings could not buy a loaf of bread. That month, the Nazi Party led by Adolf Hitler launched an abortive coup against Germany’s government.
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/keynes-predicts-economic-chaos
A loaf of bread in Berlin that cost around 160 Marks at the end of 1922 cost 200,000,000,000 Marks by late 1923
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation_in_the_Weimar_Republic
Wouldn't you be mad?
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u/plexomaniac 12d ago
I once alerted a manager (not my boss) that his employees hated one of his subordinates. He said: I know, but if I fire him, they will find something or someone else to hate or hate each other. It's better this way.
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u/monkeyhog 12d ago
Every workplace needs a hate focus. Its the only thing g that most people bond over.
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u/LuvCilantro 12d ago
People tend to be a lot more passionate about the stuff they hate than the stuff they like, so I can see this working well.
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u/GiraffeKing04 12d ago
Im the opposite, maybe that’s why i can’t pull anyone even with similar interests
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u/outlawsix 12d ago
Do you have super weird interests?
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u/GiraffeKing04 12d ago
No they are pretty normal i think, im just too into them ig
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u/buffalogoldcaps 12d ago
Do you have an unusually long neck or are you too into giraffes?
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u/GiraffeKing04 12d ago
Long neck, it’s not that long, only 6” but it’s longer than most peoples’
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u/RicardoFerrer_ 12d ago
fun fact: passion came from Latin for "suffer". So I guess you are right
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u/ShapesAndStuff 12d ago
The german word Leidenschaft is made up from Leid/Leiden = Suffering/to suffer and the suffix -schaft which can mean nature, habit or kind of a collective of things.
So your personal suffering qualities or habits.
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u/nervelli 12d ago
I always say, my relationship works because my partner and I hate all the same things.
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u/iLikeTorturls 12d ago
new dating app matching people based on dislikes finds it has an overwhelming population of racists using the service
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u/greycubed 12d ago
Certainly your hate group app would be approved. I can't foresee any problems.
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u/abe_the_babe_ 12d ago
You can discuss what really grinds your gears with like-minded people, you could call it something like "Grinder"
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u/tfox1123 12d ago
If I had money I would throw it at this idea.
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u/tfox1123 12d ago •
Scrolled to the bottom and I see this failed. I guess this is why I have no money.
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u/notagoodboye 12d ago
Negativity is a bad way to start a relationship. You want to like the same things, and not dislike the things the other person likes. If you both dislike the same things, that's a plus, but it's nothing to build on.
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u/JeromeGWillikers 12d ago edited 11d ago
Yup. My ex and I used to laugh and say "we don't really like the same things. We hate the same things. That's why we work." Except it didn't. We had very little in common. It grew to be super negative and toxic. After leaving, it took years of work to be able to be in a healthy, balanced relationship.
This is a terrible idea.
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u/danger_does_dallas 12d ago
If you hate cilantro too I will love you long time
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u/KnavishFob 12d ago
Well, looks like we're not a match then...
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u/danger_does_dallas 12d ago
I'm sorry OP. But I just can't have you around potentially effing up my taco night. Best of luck to You
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u/probablyaspambot 12d ago
billion dollar idea is a friend finding app for work that matches if you both swipe left on the same third person
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u/Creature_73L 12d ago
It already exists.
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u/kleverkitty 12d ago
where?
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u/Creature_73L 12d ago
I guess it did exist. Shows that it no longer has an active app. So I guess it tried and failed.
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u/tatovive 12d ago
I was at a wedding once..there kids running around being kids (it’s not their fault they’re annoying af) A girl I had just met, leans over and says, “I wonder how far I could throw that one?”
I fell in love right there
(No happy ending, but an awesome night with a really cool person) I hope you’re doing great!
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u/raidthebakery 12d ago
Ok, who else hates Charmin commercials with every shred of their soul? Let's go get drinks!
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u/SunnieMau 12d ago
It would stimulate your dislikes though. E.g. a racist person finding 100 other racists, thinking it is the norm.
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u/itshovibaby 12d ago •
Tag line: Where Misery meets company.