Many Such Takes: Hinge Bot, This You?, Menswear Guy, Yam Tits

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Hinge Bot

This week, a Twitter user named Cait blasted her would-be date on Hinge for using a chatbot (something he proudly revealed to her unprompted) in order to secure her phone number.

I have to be honest- I thought this was a little weird, but due to my total lack of experience and my nature tending toward pick-me-ism, I feel like I would have been okay with this? At the very least, I would have gone on the date and showed up doing robot noises to mess with him.

Me irl

But anyway, Cait did not find this approach charming or amusing, and neither did anyone in her replies, so clearly she wasn’t overreacting. Wait—except for one guy was quick to defend…himself? THE GUY IS ON TWITTER, but of course!

Of course, other Twitter users were quick to point the finger back at Cait, accusing her of being a pawn in Sam’s plan to promote his AI company.

Because Cait has a well-established Twitter account, I wasn’t falling for this theory. But another theory was circulating, which was far more feasible: Sam is a lame virgin. Sam begs to differ:

To be fair, Sam, how do we know the 706 hidden matches aren’t all chatbots?

This is his app, in case any would-be Casanovas are interested.

This You?

It’s been a while since we got a good “this you?” Normally, it’s someone pulling up some years-old tweet that was clearly a joke and not particularly bad anyway. But we got a great “this you?” this week when a guy argued that food isn’t a human right because the person saying this had an Onlyfans account:

Someone responded to him and it’s not clear what they said, but they were probably accusing him of purchasing OnlyFans material and (presumably) making fun of him for purchasing a blue check on X. He said:

But wait! That wasn’t the “this you?” THIS was the “this you?”

Not only was he a paying patron of OnlyFans, but he allegedly spent $2000 on porn from the precise woman whose opinion he invalidated on the basis that she had OnlyFans in her bio. I mean, this is just too perfect.

However, to his credit (just trying to be fair and balanced) he is refuting the screenshot, saying it’s doctored and accusing her of defamation. For legal reasons, I’m not taking a side either way.

It couldn’t get better than that, could it? Wrong. It actually can. And it involves Menswear Guy.

Predator vs. Menswear Guy

Have you ever been in an argument with someone on Twitter, and went to their profile in hopes that they had some damning information in their bio? Perhaps something that made them look unhinged? Or maybe you were problematically hoping they were ugly? And then their profile photo is their cute pet or child with “husband and father” in their bio and you feel like kind of an asshole?

Well, that happened to Menswear Guy the other day (note: never piss off Menswear Guy.) Except he struck gold that most Twitter arguers never will—his opponent was a convicted pedophile.

So yeah, Menswear Guy did some major hacker/sleuther work (ie: Googling the guy’s username and then Googling his name which was prominently featured on his Substack) to prove he was, in fact, a convicted pedophile. My take:

Yam Tits

A Twitter mutual of mine randomly became fascinated with the origin of the resist lib nickname for Donald Trump, “Yam Tits.”

They were able to track the origins of the term to at least 2020 (you can see the full saga in this thread.)

They narrowed the search by date and tracked down the first potential use of Yam Tits to come from a now-suspended account, sassychick1979. However, because the account was suspended, we didn’t see sassychick79 actually saying Yam Tits.

They eventually tracked down the current username of the woman who previously went by sassychick1979, who has apparently been suspended from X seven times. Queen!

Anyway:

Other Happenings/Funny Tweets

• Deepseek refuses to identify Taiwan as an independent country:

• I don’t really know why I saved this one, I just really liked it.

• This tweet, which is very true, per my Substack.

• And last but not least, this reaction to the plane crash by Many Such Takes frequent contributor, Joey Mannarino. (Fun lore drop: he was briefly misidentified as Luigi Mangione as part of a prank.)

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