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Bust Rodd posted:I dunno maybe if a 19 year old girl is saying “older creepy Hollywood elites are talking to 19 year olds on this celebrity dating app and it’s weird.” then we should hear her out? Feels maybe a little relevant? To the thread? Ehh, either 19 year olds are adults or they aren't adults. If they are adults she turned down a bad date, if they aren't adults why do we let them vote? I'm not saying Matt Perry isn't a creepy dude, I'm just saying we, as a society, made rules about when your can make your own decisions, even bad ones. and 19 is after that point.
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As this mentions, you're choosing the age range to match with. Like you can't be surprised you match with older men when the app thinks that's what you want. Even if it's accidental and you didn't realise, that's totally fine, but also maybe don't be too surprised when the celebrity you match with presumes you might be into men his age. Set him right and move on it it's not your thing. https://twitter.com/maraocejo/status/1390399248928280576?s=19 DrVenkman fucked around with this message at 23:12 on May 7, 2021 |
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DrVenkman posted:As this mentions, you're choosing the age range to match with. Like you can't be surprised you match with older men when the app thinks that's what you want. Even if it's accidental and you didn't realise, that's totally fine, but also maybe don't be too surprised when the celebrity you match with presumes you might be into men his age. Set him right and move on it it's not your thing. Her defense was "it was a joke" But she still signed up for an exclusive, celebrity dating app so.... It's a big non story about some social media influencer chasing clout.
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DrVenkman posted:As this mentions, you're choosing the age range to match with. Like you can't be surprised you match with older men when the app thinks that's what you want. Even if it's accidental and you didn't realise, that's totally fine, but also maybe don't be too surprised when the celebrity you match with presumes you might be into men his age. Set him right and move on it it's not your thing. So he was choosing to match with 19 year olds?
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LIVE AMMO COSPLAY posted:So he was choosing to match with 19 year olds? I guess so? Intentional or not I don't know. I would have assumed it was a tinder situation where you at least see who you're potentially matching with. But maybe not. Anyway, 19 year olds are adults capable of making decisions. No one is being forced into matching with him or talking to him. They can unmatch without saying a word. This whole thing is a non issue.
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Look we can agree to disagree but ultimately I believe, in my heart, that old Hollywood elites objectifying young women and pursuing them for obvious sexual encounters is damaging because it normalizes commodifying them and viewing them as disposable. This contributes to a climate where women and their entire career and even their personal lives can be interrupted and nobody gives a poo poo because it’s literally the 9th time DiCaprio has done it in the last 10 years that’s just how it is. It’s hyper normalized and it’s not a crime and lots of men that age in their 30s/40s/50s would LOVE to be sleeping with young models and actresses so the entire idea just gets settled into this extremely weird and defensive “boys will be boys” attitude or even weirder the “they are adults you should respect their agency!” as though anyone over the age of 30 really considers any 18 or a 19 year old barely above a teen in terms of emotional or mental development. In our country, you are legally allowed to murder n enemy combatant before you’re allowed to drink a beer! How can you possibly put any stock in that kind of system!?! That’s how I feel, that’s how pretty much a everyone I know feels, if we were hanging out with a guy in his 50s and he started bragging about all the high school seniors he was loving I would think he was a hosed up loser, and if that hosed up loser who clearly just wants to gently caress young hot chicks keeps going for years, decades, etc... isn’t that where Weinstein’s come from? Do we just watch Leo trade in for a new girl every 2 years for the rest of his life and never ask what’s going on with these women (or why he makes all of them sign incredibly intense NDA’s?). It’s very easy for me to imagine someone who just maintains this constant stream of extremely young and fresh faced women for very superficial purposes around eventually ends up as a Cosby or a Weinstein. You don’t start out as a Cosby or a Weinstein, I think you start as a more run of the mill creep with lovely disposable attitudes about all the young models you promise jobs too and then eventually after 10/20/30 years of that unchecked behavior you’re runnning your own poo poo and think you can demand sex from anyone who works for you. I’m really not trying to be weird or abrasive, I’m trying to communicate this as clearly and a-politically as possible. This strikes me as something we should listen to the young women about, instead of just listening to the fans of the older men assuring us it’s all normal and fine and not at all weirdly imbalanced and transparently just about sex with as young of women as possible without getting “in trouble” for it. I just want to express why I believe this topic to be fully germane to the thread topic. Bust Rodd fucked around with this message at 23:46 on May 7, 2021 |
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Sir this is a drive thru (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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If you can set what ages you're looking for on the app surely the 19 year old could have set her maximum age to something less than 51 and this wouldn't have happened.
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Skwirl posted:If you can set what ages you're looking for on the app surely the 19 year old could have set her maximum age to something less than 51 and this wouldn't have happened. Or the 51 year old could have set the minimum age to something more than 'literally a teenager'
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LIVE AMMO COSPLAY posted:Or the 51 year old could have set the minimum age to something more than 'literally a teenager' I'm not defending the creepy old guy, I'm just saying at 19 you are legally an adult and allowed to make your own mistakes. Calling someone out because you matched on an app is kinda bullshit.
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Bust Rodd posted:Words Mate, you come off as incredibly patronising.
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Celebrities requiring people in their social circles to sign NDAs isn't necessarily a sign of anything nefarious, either. Celebrities are entitled to a private life too, and it's completely understandable that you don't want someone you hooked up with blabbing to the whole world about your weird penis or whatever.
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The idea of even signing up for an app like this seems like such a colossally bad idea if you’re a celebrity. It just seems like needlessly exposing yourself to the risk of bad publicity on the probably infinitesimal chance that you meet someone worthwhile.
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Phylodox posted:The idea of even signing up for an app like this seems like such a colossally bad idea if you’re a celebrity. It just seems like needlessly exposing yourself to the risk of bad publicity on the probably infinitesimal chance that you meet someone worthwhile. its literally a celebrity dating app, you cant get an account unless they sign off on you. idk if they use clout score or what. maybe a twitter bluecheck works? anyway, you or i probably cant go on a date with kyle chandler, but probably lowtax could
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Wait is it an app just for celebs (presumably anyone with a check on Twitter or verified on Insta?) or an app for normal people to match with celebs?
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quote:Raya is a private, membership-based, social network application for iOS, first launched in 2015. The application was initially a dating app, but added features to promote professional networking for members of the entertainment industry. Membership in Raya costs $7.99 per month. To join Raya, users must be referred by an existing member, and then their application is voted on by a membership committee. The acceptance rate for Raya membership applications is approximately eight percent. In addition to subscription fees, the company also charges for sponsored placement of user requests. I've never heard of this app before today but I hate it
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Wait is it an app just for celebs (presumably anyone with a check on Twitter or verified on Insta?) or an app for normal people to match with celebs? Do you think celebs want to match with normal people? The girl sounds like an rear end in a top hat for dumping private messages that included the lines like "maybe we could meet up sometime if you want to" but the app seems extremely like some roundabout way for male celebs to find hot young women that want to sleep with them. The presumption is the women signing up for it know what the score is, and the 50+ year old celebrities hitting on them aren't expecting it to lead to a long term marriage. pentyne fucked around with this message at 01:36 on May 8, 2021 |
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Oh yeah, a couple years ago I remember Griffin Newman mentioning some sort of celebrities only dating ap in an episode of the Blank Check podcast. It does seem like something that would inevitably exist, and honestly I don't fault famous people for hiding from the general public and opting to only consort with 'their own.' On the one hand it's elitist as gently caress, but on the other hand there's a massive culture of psycho-stalkers who chase after anyone who has reached a certain level of fame, so what choice do they have?
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imo they should just use their assistants as 5th grade go-betweens like "my friend thinks your friend is cute" its a pre-app swipe, no face to face rejection
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Carthag Tuek posted:imo they should just use their assistants as 5th grade go-betweens like "my friend thinks your friend is cute" lol that's what leo started doing when me too was happening.
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I don't see what's wrong with the app. People recognize that it's creepy when celebrities gently caress their fans, and that power imbalances are part-and-parcel of celebrities interacting with most people, so it's not surprising they'd prefer an app where they can assume most people are on an even playing field. Being able to date without people going OH MY GOD I LOVED YOU IN MOVIE is probably a relief, and they're not taking advantage of anyone. Unless I'm missing something about how it works?
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sethsez posted:I don't see what's wrong with the app. Not really seeing how that gets rid of the power issues.
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Midjack posted:Don't the women have to be some level of "famous" to join the service too? I think so. The whole thing is elitist as poo poo and I hate it
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Midjack posted:Don't the women have to be some level of "famous" to join the service too? Yes. They are not letting your regular fans in the app. You have to be invited and a committee has to vote if they allow you in. The girl that sold her tabloid story wasn't just a Friends teenager fan, it was a young woman who is kinda of influencer and was definitely looking for some juicy material. Edit: It is creepy that old men talk to younger women looking to get some sex. But in this case it wasn't a power balance abuse thing. And there's this thing called consent. Don't infantilize young adults, they still can make their decisions and sometimes some bad ones. But don't treat them as dumb 4 year-olds. This is a poo poo I've seen a lot on social media and sometimes it leaks in this thread. Desperado Bones fucked around with this message at 05:45 on May 8, 2021 |
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The purpose of the app is so that celebrities can attempt to date while avoiding 1) fifty thousand Joe Schmoes trying to land a date with Jennifer Aniston and 2) fifty million people gawking at their dating profile, which would make it pretty much impossible to earnestly put themselves out there. It's not elitist, it's a way for famous people to date people with similar lifestyles as them, something that's also pretty common with the rest of the population.
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Martman posted:It's putting fame front and center though. How could it become anything but "you, naive young hot girl, have a chance to date a famous man! You'd better compete with the thousands of other people who want this famous person's attention" Who are they supposed to gently caress? only equally famous people?
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Lovely Joe Stalin posted:I would far prefer they be hooking up on a semi-closed app designed to keep them isolated from random fans than getting thirsty on social media. It seems healthier for everyone involved. agreed
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I did misunderstand the app, but it's still some 19 year old Tik Tok person who most people have never heard of getting matched with Matthew Perry. She has some number of thousands of followers on her platforms which, as far as I know is totally in the realm of numbers where people have just straight up bought follows and stuff? My point isn't that celebrities can't date people, but that specifically limiting your pool to only "famous" people does nothing to solve the problems of differences in power or influence or whatever. I would be very surprised if Matthew Perry was particularly concerned if her fame and lifestyle were similar to his in a way that made their use of the app reasonable or whatever. He just saw a hot young woman who matched with Famous Man. Martman fucked around with this message at 08:14 on May 8, 2021 |
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quote:Look we can agree to disagree but ultimately I believe, in my heart, that old Hollywood elites objectifying young women and pursuing them for obvious sexual encounters is damaging because it normalizes commodifying them and viewing them as disposable. This contributes to a climate where women and their entire career and even their personal lives can be interrupted and nobody gives a poo poo because it’s literally the 9th time DiCaprio has done it in the last 10 years that’s just how it is. It’s hyper normalized and it’s not a crime and lots of men that age in their 30s/40s/50s would LOVE to be sleeping with young models and actresses so the entire idea just gets settled into this extremely weird and defensive “boys will be boys” attitude or even weirder the “they are adults you should respect their agency!” as though anyone over the age of 30 really considers any 18 or a 19 year old barely above a teen in terms of emotional or mental development. In our country, you are legally allowed to murder n enemy combatant before you’re allowed to drink a beer! How can you possibly put any stock in that kind of system!?! And in my country you can buy a beer when you're 18. Like I don't know what to tell you but not every sexual encounter is a minefield of politics and power dynamics. If there are people over 30 who don't consider 18 year olds adults well that's on them. Don't you consider them adults? 19 year olds are perfectly capable of making decisions like if they want to gently caress a 40 year old Actor or Director or Jetski Dealer. Sure, maybe someone is going to be naïve and make mistakes or misread a situation, but that's not limited to age or maturity either. You can go on about old Hollywood elites and all that, but a conversation about a hooking up app isn't really the place to do it. There's no power dynamics at play here, no one is being co-erced into talking or doing anything, no one is being accosted or cornered in a room. It's Tinder, or Grindr, or Adult Friend Finder, or any of those. You don't end up there by accident.
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Hoop Dreams posted:If you go through all the hoops to get matched with older celebrities and then decide that you actually don't want that, there's nothing wrong with that and nothing happened further. But to make it seem like the celebrity did something wrong in this situation seem really weird. But twitter and Tik Tok clout
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Len posted:I've never heard of this app before today but I hate it 7.99 month seems awfully low for a celeb only app. I mean, prole apps like OkCupid A-List and Tinder Gold charge way more. I’m going with the “escort loophole” theory.
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