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December 21, 2012
15:16 • 6 months ago
Love at first blight: Let’s say you’re a fun-loving young single person, and you use the internet to help set up dates with men or women of your choosing. You might expect a few awkward dates here or there, garnished lovingly with some spam email. What you probably wouldn’t expect, however, is for such an email (from the service OKCupid) to contain this weird, apocalyptic anti-Obama image. The body text conspicuously didn’t mention it, but rather played up the 2012 doomsday paranoia (“We’re screwed. You should be too!”) — so, um, who exactly put this image together, or green-lit it?

Love at first blight: Let’s say you’re a fun-loving young single person, and you use the internet to help set up dates with men or women of your choosing. You might expect a few awkward dates here or there, garnished lovingly with some spam email. What you probably wouldn’t expect, however, is for such an email (from the service OKCupid) to contain this weird, apocalyptic anti-Obama image. The body text conspicuously didn’t mention it, but rather played up the 2012 doomsday paranoia (“We’re screwed. You should be too!”) — so, um, who exactly put this image together, or green-lit it?

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  1. lettersiarrange reblogged this from shortformblog
  2. emogentcorp reblogged this from note-a-bear
  3. nucowaaaaaaa reblogged this from brooklynmutt and added:
    Anti- Obama? Wow. Someone is taking A) the internet and B) an internet dating site WAY TO FUCKING SERIOUSLY. Pretty sure...
  4. eplphany reblogged this from brooklynmutt
  5. warriorfortheromantic reblogged this from shortformblog and added:
    Who cares why they did...what message they are trying to send? This is amazing.
  6. gardenstorm reblogged this from shortformblog
  7. apocalypsesunshine reblogged this from shortformblog
  8. foamcupsipper reblogged this from brooklynmutt
  9. jadelyn reblogged this from scooterpiebanana
  10. sirsupreme7 reblogged this from brooklynmutt
  11. smoofsite reblogged this from sturmtruppen and added:
    the densest concentration of douche on the planet
  12. a-hopeless-romantics-hope reblogged this from shortformblog and added:
    Brilliant
  13. asfadedasmyjeans reblogged this from scooterpiebanana
  14. spacecowboywhit reblogged this from shortformblog and added:
    was funny when OKCupid sent me...email. I totally missed Obama’s face on they asteroid...
  15. mufb reblogged this from shortformblog and added:
    reblogging for the image lol
  16. scooterpiebanana reblogged this from deliciouskaek and added:
    Oh wow what we miss when we have images in email disabled.
  17. crazy56u reblogged this from totallynotagentphilcoulson
  18. deliciouskaek reblogged this from note-a-bear
  19. mikesridingbikes reblogged this from shortformblog
  20. big-wired reblogged this from note-a-bear and added:
    Huh, I’ll get rid of mine now too… I thought it was a joke image, I didn’t know it was from OKC.
  21. echomoon reblogged this from shortformblog
  22. brianunderstands said: Worst part is that in this scenario, science apparently thought a giant replica of the Constitution would be able to stop an asteroid. Big. Effing. Mistake, science.
  23. note-a-bear reblogged this from brooklynmutt and added:
    Wow, so happy I stooped participating in OKC forever ago.
  24. youngnoblewoman reblogged this from midnightbeliever and added:
    I still have my OKCupid account, but no sign of this email.
  25. brooklynmutt reblogged this from shortformblog
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