The Internet has some dark places. For the sake of experimentation, Los Angeles-based writer Alli Reed created one--an OKCupid profile intended to be the worst one in history.
Using a photo of her best friend, who works as a model, Reed created the most disgusting online persona she could imagine and was flooded with more than 150 messages in 24 hours, the Daily Mail reported. She hoped the despicable dating profile would be so bad that no man would send her messages.
Reed detailed the whole experiment in a Cracked column, lamenting her discovery that men will pursue a "mean, spoiled, lazy, racist, manipulative and willfully ignorant" woman as long as she is physically attractive.
With the handle "aaroncarterfan," Reed tried to deter men by displaying gold-digging tendencies, threatening to fake pregnancy and just plain being crazy. None of it worked.
Her fake profile is rife with grammatical errors and features such gems as finishing "I'm really good at" with "convincing people im pregnat (sic) lol" and "the first things people usually notice about me" with "Prolly (sic) the first thing they notice is the drink Im throwing in there (sic) face LOL."
When men started inundating her with messages, Reed tried three tactics to get them to stop: being "unforgivably awful," showing that she would ruin their lives and talking complete nonsense.
"I was going to make AaronCarterFan come across as so abhorrent that not even the kinds of dudes who comment on YouPorn videos would respond to her," Reed wrote in her column.
In reply to a man who messaged her, Reed said she was pretending to be a 14-year-old on Facebook and mocking her sister's friends because "LMAOOOOO bullying is fun."
The man responded with, "Lol your so funny. hahaha. you a sexy devil lol :) so dose ur sis know about it? Any plans for the weekend? Btw what's ur number so we can text?"
Reed went on to exchange completely inane and nonsensical messages with men who still wanted to meet up with her.
Despite her discouraging findings, Reed offered some positivity at the end of her column.
"But rather than follow these results into the darkness, I'll stay optimistic and instead offer an impassioned plea," Reed wrote. "Men of the world: You are better than this. I know many of you would never message AaronCarterFan, but many of you would, and a whole bunch of you did. You're better than that."
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