Vanity Dating Site expels 5,000 members for getting too CHUBBY!
The Guardian’s Sam Jones has lapped up an “unashamedly naked and upfront PR stunt” by dating website “BeautifulPeople.com” who’s founder Robert Hintze has expelled 5,000 members after festive weight gain.
The swashbuckling founder (pictured) is claiming that “chubby members” who have got ‘too fat’ for its books needed to be exiled democratically after letting themselves go over the festive period and becoming “a direct threat to our business model”. Apparently it had been “forced” to act by “gluttonous members” in the US, UK and Canada who had revealed the scale of their yuletide overindulgence in pictures they posted online since Christmas.
So please tell me if I’m not getting this right… BeautifulPeople.com is a online community that has no possible way of ensuring the photo you have submitted is in any way genuine, and it has got a problem with members who are unnecessarily updating their stored photo profiles with new photos of them looking “chubby”?
Doesn’t really add up to me…. can anyone else explain why a member of such a vanity community would do this?
January 24, 2010 at 2:24 pm
You know what i used this site for around 3 months and got messages however i have to say there’s nothing beautiful about the members using the site – there really isnt! To add to this the auther is correct, theres no validation on photos either – how do you know they even exist??????? They are great at PR, sales and marketing and thats about it.
If your really looking to date hot guys or girls – there’s only one site that does it for me – http://www.singlehotandloaded.co.uk also they do have something similar to twitter and how that confirms its celebs – profile and photo verification so you know the members are real – honest i love it!