Dating Site Dumps 30,000 "Ugly People," Feigns Remorse
Dating Site Dumps 30,000 "Ugly People," Feigns Remorse
Posted 06/21/2011 at 8:26am
| by Paul Lilly
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BeautifulPeople.com is an online dating site where only hotties go to hook-up, or at least that's how it's supposed to be. The self-proclaimed "exclusively beautiful community" is made up of shallow Hals and Haleys who have been voted in by other members while less attractive singles are shown the virtual door. That is, until a virus opened the floodgates letting in 30,000 "less than aesthetically pleasing" people to mingle with the elite.
Greg Hodge, managing director of the superficial dating website, told the U.K.'s Guardian he believes the 'Shrek' virus may have been posted by a disgruntled former employee. It's being called Shrek based on the animated character that attempts to teach kids how looks don't (or shouldn't) matter.
"We have to stick to our founding principles of only accepting beautiful people -- that's what our members have paid for," Hodge said. "We can't just sweep 30,000 ugly people under the carpet."
Hodge told the Guardian he "got suspicious when tens of thousands of new members were accepted over a six-week period, many of whom were no oil painting." Erasing them from the dating site's canvas has so far cost the site's operators more than $112,000 in refunds to 4,500 of the 30,000 who paid $25 a month for membership, though this isn't the first time BeautifulPeople.com has had to remove thousands of members. The site kicked out 5,000 members last year after they appeared to put on weight during the holiday season.
Hodge said he felt "very sorry" for the "unfortunate people who were wrongly admitted to the site and believed, albeit for a short time, that they were beautiful."
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jonathankeller
July 11, 2011 at 1:24pm
Online dating is getting so sleezy. It seems that people are more interested in either eye candy or people with large pocketbooks on those things. I was on Match.com for a few months and the only girls that responded to my inquiries replied with "where would you take me to dinner?" When I said "PF Changs," she replied "LOL, no thanks." And that's about all you can expect from all of the dating sites unless you're ridiculously good looking for drive a Ferrari. My suggestion is to sharpen your social skills and start meeting people in normal, traditional places instead of staring at some pixels on a screen hoping this person could be "the one." It's a joke.
Ghok
June 21, 2011 at 5:33pm
Yeah, I've read this same story a few times before. Everytime they want to be in the news they just say they're purging their database of ugly people in hopes it'll be picked up by enough news outlets. Huge publicity stunt.
Holly Golightly
June 21, 2011 at 10:54am
Man, what a disgusting website for sure. I will never pay money just to possibly be rejected. No thanks! I know I am not ugly, and have no problem finding a date in real life. If you need to log online just find a date, that makes you a total loser... And possibly ugly too.
ChatterboxChuck
June 21, 2011 at 10:26am
I am actually curious to see who these 30,000 people were that were kicked off the site. I mean, seriously, how is it possible that this many "ugly" people could get on even with a virus giving them access? What are the odds that 30,000 ugly people happen to sign up? What are exactly these peoples standards to determine beauty?
theriot72
June 21, 2011 at 10:07am
That picture is just down right scary looking, like a nightmare. Imagine waking up to that the next morning after being blackout drunk!!!!!!!!!!!
Kinetic
June 21, 2011 at 9:58am
What I never understood about that site is that if the members are so beautiful and perfect, how come they need an online dating service to find someone willing to have dinner with them? Whatever it is, I'm sure it isn't because they're all a bunch of narcissistic, uninteresting, self absorbed bottom feeders. No, that couldn't be it.
It remains a mystery...
Wareagle
June 21, 2011 at 9:41am
So how do they check if the picture you upload is really you?
This is what always scares me about online dating.
TreasuresOfGoodness
June 21, 2011 at 9:20am
wow you can be serious. There's an actual site out there that doesn't let less than attractive singles into it's network? Just when I thought I heard or seen it all. Oh well I guess that company is ok with losing $750,000 per month on membership fees. Stupid
http://www.treasuresofgoodness.com
Raswan
June 21, 2011 at 8:57am
That picture is the real gem of this article. Well done. That is one fugly person.
Hg Dragon
June 21, 2011 at 8:47am
Except both this "Shrek virus" and the "Christmas Purge" events were both P.R. stunts.
http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011/06/20/beautifulpeople-dupes-mediashrek-virus-media-stunt/
timmmaaayyy2003
June 21, 2011 at 8:31am
Mr. Hodge proves what my uncle once told me:
"Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly is to the bone!"
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