Here We Go Again: What is “Hoodfishing”?
Alright, y’all – the dating “trends” are getting out of hand. Let’s count em, shall we?
What’s next??? Well – turns out, it’s “hoodfishing”. WTH? Apparently, it’s when you tell someone you live one place, when you really live farther away. The term was coined by a TikToker in a now-viral video.
New York-adjacent singles are claiming to be Big Apple residents on their dating profiles — a sneaky trend dubbed “hoodfishing.”
“Every few conversations on [a dating] app, there’s a woman who is like … ‘Oh, I live in Westchester,’ or ‘I live on Long Island,’” even though their profiles said they are located in the city, griped comedian Jared Fried in a viral TikTok video.
If it take three trains or a “red eye” flight to get to the date, you know someone’s hoodfishing — a cousin to catfishing, in which someone makes a fake online persona to lure in romantic interests, he noted.
“Our first date would have different stakes,” Fried said. “You’re sitting there the whole time like ‘Well, if I make the 11:42 train…’”
“Date the suburban guys. There’s a nice guy in your town who tucks his polo into his underwear that is ready to go out with you,” he urged.
The motivation to lie is “obvious,” said hoodfishers — it casts a wider net and gets you more dates.
Check out the LOL video below!
@wizardofha Stop hoodfishing!! #single #dating #relationships ? original sound – Jared Freid
