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Hello guys and gals. Me, Mudahar. I'm
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sipping on a good old cup of coffee,
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ladies and gentlemen, right here this
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fine morning. And uh you know, if it's
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one thing I love is coffee. But if it's
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one thing I've learned about women, is
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they really love the tea. No matter who
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you are, they love spilling that tea.
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Now, I never really knew that whole
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idiom until much recently. But the
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reality of it is is this is an
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application that has skyrocketed the
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popularity. Okay, so tea is a dating
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safety tool that protects women. Now, on
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the surface, I thought, you know, this
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is a pretty cool tool. You know, it
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exists. It is what it is. And generally
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speaking, the idea is is you probably
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have used a dating app at some point in
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your life. Uh the last time I ever
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touched a dating app was probably all
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the way back in like college. Some kid
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told me what uh like uh some guy that I
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was going with told me about Tinder and
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how you can just get laid all the time
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through it. And uh I accessed it once
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and I swear to God, I think it's an
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entire bot farm still to this day. Uh,
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now I'm out of the dating pool, all
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right? I'm a happily taken person and
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uh, you know, it's not something that I
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really touch, but I'm sure that a lot of
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younger people probably get their first
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few dates or maybe meet their soulmate
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through an application. But there's a
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lot of shady people on those
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applications. Okay. And T is here to
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help you with dating safety tools. Now,
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what kind of stuff are using T for? I
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guess you can find verified green flag
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men. Okay. So, this is an application
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just for women. Okay. No men are allowed
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in here. No men whatsoever. Only women.
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Now, of course, you can run background
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checks on all of these guys. So, I guess
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if you're looking closely, it might be
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harder to read. You're looking at things
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like convictions, marital statuses, and
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civil court records. Identify potential
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catfish. Verify that he ain't no sex
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offender. Check for a criminal history.
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Now, of course, this application blew
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and skyrocketed to complete popularity.
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Okay, so to give you an idea, this is
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number one on the app store right now.
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Okay, this is pretty big thing. 64.6,000
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ratings, almost five stars. I mean, it
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must be a pretty badass thing. Now, if
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you look closely at it, I almost thought
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this was like a [ __ ] joke app because
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again, this is the actual application.
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Get the tea on your date. Does anyone
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have any tea on Jake? So, if Jake is on
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a dating app and he's not entirely
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there, these women on the application
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are going to talk all the dirty they
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need to about Jake. Now, I tried to see
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if this was verified anywhere. Like,
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does TE do any form of verification on a
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lot of the claims that are made or does
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it just outright spew whatever [ __ ]
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that anybody anybody wants to post? Now,
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I checked into Te's terms of services
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and they said that the contents are
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forformational purposes only. T- dating
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makes no warranty whatsoever that any of
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this information is accurate and does
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not pre-screen content uploaded by users
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or verify the statement of its users.
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Now, this is a big problem. Okay? Now,
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dating is a very personal thing and
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sometimes breakups are tough. You know,
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I've broken up with plenty of women and
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I'm on good terms with women. I've had
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women cheat on me. I have had women
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ghost me. All right? I've had one
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relationship ghost me, one cheat on me.
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One I'm on really good terms with and
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you know, one that I just don't talk to.
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Okay? And that's just, you know, that's
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how relationships work. Okay? Breakups
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can be messy. Breakups can be amicle.
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Breakups are just things you want to
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move past as soon as possible. Now, if
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somebody on this application says that,
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"Oh, no. Does anybody have the tea on
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Jake?" Well, Jake's really good at
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making martinis. His specialtity is a
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roofy colada. Now, of course, at that
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point, you might be like, "Whoa, I
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better watch out for Jake." But if T is
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not doing its job by vetting if that
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information is true, whether by a court
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document or a police report or I don't
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know how they're verifying some of these
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things, you can probably see that
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defamation or sorry in this case liel
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because it's written would be a pretty
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serious issue. So going down over here,
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they say avoid dating red flag men. And
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again, this is why I thought it was a
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joke app because again it's like xoxo
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gossip girl share that tea. And of
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course it's all like here's the red
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flags. It's because he's married. Should
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I date Ethan? Don't date him. Write 68%.
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Date him. He's just busy. Ask him why
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he's Why only lunch. And of course, if
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you look at the reason, my friend saw
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him out with another girl. And uh yeah,
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this is just anonymous unverified [ __ ]
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Now, if you're with somebody, I guess
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you can do set alerts for your man. Want
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a heads up anytime Jake is mentioned in
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your area?
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It's like, you know what it is? It's the
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[ __ ] Shardy for [ __ ] women, dude.
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It's It's a gossip site for women. It's
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like LOL Farm for women. It's you know
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what it is? It's just 4chan for the
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girls, for the for the gals.
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Now, I don't know if their own feature
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of following your man might violate
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section five and six of their use of
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their services and their terms. but
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literally reading that you must not use
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the information on the service to
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harass, threaten or intimidate
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individuals. Uh context and intent
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matter as we allow you to post and share
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if it is clear that something was shared
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in order to condemn or draw attention to
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bullying or harassment. And again, is it
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kind of getting into harassment
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territories when you know you have a
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whole network of gaggling people to like
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[ __ ] follow someone and like report
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if they seen them with another woman? I
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mean, it's just a weird thing to do.
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Like imagine if like this was flipped on
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the other way around and it was like,
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"Hey guys, here's a picture of my
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girlfriend. Please remind me and let's
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let's share if she's ever been caught
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with another person out there in the
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world." I mean, it's just overall like
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remove the gender from all of it. Just
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remove everything. It's just a weird
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application to have. I almost feel that
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if a male version of this app existed on
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the app store, it would have been
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removed before I even got a chance to
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research it. But because it's because
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it's like the the the the female version
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of it, it's suddenly like completely
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okay to talk about. It's it's trending
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and charting at number one. It's it's
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wild. Now, of course, I decided to go
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even deeper and look at some other
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screenshots that I found were a little
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bit wild when it came to te. So, I went
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to APK Pure, which pulled a cache of the
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Google Play version of the application.
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And some of the screenshots were even
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funny. Like here's the sex offender
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search option. Criminal record search
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Jeffrey Epstein.
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Imagine matching with Epstein. Dude,
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what the [ __ ] This is why I thought
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it's a joke. And again, phone number
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lookup. Here's the name, married, age,
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address, so you can just pull up like
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the docses on entire individuals. And
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again, this is not new. Obviously, if
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you're scared of an application like T,
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I'm going to kind of like I'm I'm gonna
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I'm just straight up pull it out for
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you. Uh there are at things you can buy
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in this application. For instance, you
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can get a monthly subscription service.
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You can get T premium, T Pro, reverse
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image searches, and criminal record
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checks for eight bucks a poparoon. You
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want a private background check? 20
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bucks, bro. You can order private
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investigators on this [ __ ]
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application. That's crazy. That's
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insane. Now, of course, uh obviously,
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how does a man sign up for this
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application to verify if the claims made
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about him are not true? Uh you can't.
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Okay, so for instance, I decided I'm
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going to fire up the tea app. So, I
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downloaded it, installed it on a cell
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phone, and the thing about this
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application is you can't actually record
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the screen or screenshot stuff. Okay, so
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realistically, everything on T must stay
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on T. And of course, this is a great
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method, but it really is completely
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defeated by the other method, which is
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record your phone screen with another
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phone and then you can do whatever you
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want. So, I was making an account on
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this and I thought it was again, every
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time I use it, I think it's a [ __ ]
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joke app, right? Because I'm signing up
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for an account and it's like, "What's
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your username?" The default is like XOXO
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Gossip Girl. You get to a point where it
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asks you for a selfie and they say that
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they'll delete this file in 24 hours.
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And we'll get right back to that. They
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ask you for a selfie, which, you know,
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if you have a mom or or a wife in this
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case, I'm sure I'm sure everyone's got a
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mom or something. If you don't have a
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mom, I I apologize for whatever reason,
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but uh generally speaking, you can sneak
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your way onto this application. I'm not
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going to say how I snuck onto this
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application, but I did. And
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unfortunately, at the time of filming
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and at the time of really recording and
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researching, a lot of that application
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is completely disabled. So,
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unfortunately, we're stuck in this load
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loop uh for now. Um maybe it'll change
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at some point as I go through with this,
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but yeah, this was generally the
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experience. Now, to give you an idea on
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why this selfie uh was a bad thing, what
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gets really insane about this too is
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immediately right after like this
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morning when I was like waking up to
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read this, I got into overdrive mode
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because apparently the application got
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completely hacked by a few forchers.
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Dude,
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[Laughter]
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make make an app to dox a bunch of dudes
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and some doxing the women instead. Bro,
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what the [ __ ] Driver's licenses and
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face pics. Get in here before they shut
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it down. And of course, they appear to
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show a bunch of these women's driver's
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licenses, which uh is a pretty massive
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privacy risk right over here. Uh I don't
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have to really say that for it to be
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obvious. The T app uploads all user
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verification submissions to a public
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Firebase storage bucket with the prefix
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attachments. So they give a URL. Yes, if
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you send T app your face and drivers
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license, they doxed you publicly. No
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authentication, no nothing. It's a
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public bucket. So yes, this user is in
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fact absolutely right because this is
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not a hack. And for a lot of people that
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were looking into this, they had found
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that yes, by putting in that URL, you
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absolutely could find attachment files.
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And users in this situation did go out
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of their way to write entire Python
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scripts to effectively scrape this page.
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And now there's like a torrent floating
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around. There's just an entire batch of
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images floating around of these women's
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faces, possibly their actual personally
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identifiable information. So yes, uh
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again, uh unfortunately I don't have any
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footage to show you to verify this on
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this video right now, but you know, I'm
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not going to just ask you to take my
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word for it. There's a group of
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journalists at 404 media that have also
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confirmed this as well through their
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research. So it's kind of safe to say
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that maybe things aren't entirely
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perfect in the land of tea. So again,
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this is a pretty massive security issue.
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All right, obviously it goes
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understated. So there's just a lot of
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doxing going. This whole app is a
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[ __ ] GDPR nightmare, which is one of
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the reasons why I think it's only in the
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United States as of now. If this was an
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issue in like Europe or Canada, where
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privacy laws, at least in Europe, are a
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lot more strict, this would absolutely
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put the developers of this application
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in the [ __ ] crosshairs. You know,
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there's like a word called irony that I
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think applies really well in this
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situation, too, right? Like, let's be
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completely honest here. Like, this is
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just some of the goofiest [ __ ] that you
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can read. the application that is doxing
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and is designed to basically talk [ __ ]
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about people that can't respond back
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just ended up doxing the people that
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were mostly interested. Now, obviously,
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if you go to the user base for like the
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tea app, I think some of the user
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reviews pretty much show me the kind of
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insane nut jobs that have started using
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this kind of an application. Okay, so
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I'll read you some of these reviews.
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Chai Nikki writes, "Okay, so boom, I
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try. First off, I swear to God, I don't
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know what's up with all these emojis
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fitting in. I love the idea of tea. It's
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basically Yelp for X's. You get to see
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what people say about the person you're
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thinking about matching with. And
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listen, that's a game changer for the
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girls who are done wasting time on
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smooth talking liabilities. What's it
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giving? Real feedback from real people.
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So again, what they want is new features
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like a video post, like a one minute
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clip max. Imagine being able to watch a
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quick little 60-second clip of the
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culprit in action. Woo! Receipts. the
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tea would be piping hot. I honestly feel
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like everyone involved in this
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application doesn't realize how creepy
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this is. Especially if you kind of
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reverse the roles, right? Like imagine
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if you know tonight I vibe coded an
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application called coffee or or beer or
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something and inside the application it
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was like all right boys, let's just talk
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all the hottest [ __ ] we want about the
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girls in our like what if the app was
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called body count for instance, right?
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Like you know just think of all the
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crazy ideas. this would be treated
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absolutely terribly. And and again, the
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concept is not terrible. Like I said
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when I started this video off, I don't
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think the idea of like dating safety is
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bad. You know, there's a lot of fraud
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that happens. You know, don't forget
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that a lady literally fell for a bunch
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of AI generated Brad Pitt images and
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ended up siphoning the [ __ ] out of her
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money because she thought Brad Pitt
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loved her and he had like crazy super
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[ __ ] butt cancer the entire time. So,
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there is scams that happen. There are
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actual bad people. There are date
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rapists that exist on these
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applications. There are some real bad
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apples. There are some cheaters. There
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are some disgusting types of dudes out
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there. And the thing is, I'm totally
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fine with applications made for safety
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of of these women at the at the end of
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the day. Because again, when you're
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going out on a date with some guy you
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met through an application, you know,
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sometimes it can be a great experience.
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Sometimes it can be a forgettable
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evening. And sometimes, God forbid, it
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can be an evening where, you know, you
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never forget it for all the wrong
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reasons. And that's why having an
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application like this does make sense on
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paper. But the fact that TE dropped this
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without any form of factchecking,
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without any form of verification into
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claims being made is such a defamation
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or liel ma minefield that I'm surprised
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it's actually going I don't think this
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app might survive too long. Okay, to be
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honest with you, I think a lot of the
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stuff that they're pulling and sharing
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around might be a data privacy nightmare
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just given by the fact that the women
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who were signing up for this application
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had a lot of their identities just
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completely leaked and downloaded for the
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world to grab. Not because even te was
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hacked. It's literally because they just
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did not put any effort into
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configurating their like, you know,
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buckets so that like all the information
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people were posting that was supposed to
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be deleted after, you know, 24 hours
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apparently. uh just still existed,
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persisted, people downloaded and ran
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with it. So, it's a wild situation to
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just completely witness. And again, an
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application like this, like I said,
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makes sense. I don't mind seeing dating
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safety. I think it's super cool to see.
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I just think at the end of the day, all
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right, because they're not doing any
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form of verification and there really is
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no way for any of the other parties to,
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you know, who are being kind of defamed
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in a way, you know, if the information
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posted is completely false about them to
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at least offer some sort of rebuttal.
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And I'm sure there's ways for you to
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reach out to te and tell them to take
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down a post if you provide them like
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actual information. But again, it's just
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a headache that somebody has to go
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through. Now, if you're really worried
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about something like uh tea for
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instance, right? Remember this is a
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phenomenon that's going on gone on for a
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long time. There used to be a website
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called the dirty where you could just
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post anybody that you wanted and
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basically talk all the [ __ ] you ever
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needed about them. And it was a website
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that isn't accessible anymore. But to
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give you a quick idea from
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reputation.ca,
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it devolved into a site to shame and
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insult people, primarily women in this
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case. Whether or not there is any truth
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to the situation, the dirty would allow
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anyone who would post a name and shame
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rundown of their supposed experiences.
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There's very little or nothing in the
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way of verification and posts are
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typically laden with misogynistic
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language and insulting implications. So
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again, this is a huge problem that
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occurred even back then, right? Like
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this is not a new situation when the
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internet was introduced and people were
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allowed to post whatever the [ __ ] they
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wanted. Yeah, things like tea have
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always persisted. And again, the fact
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that you can just post anything you want
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about somebody and have a platform for
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it. You know, what they've basically
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done is not new. It's literally a gossip
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forum for for women, exclusively women
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in this situation. Now, what TE is doing
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is in a way not so much different than
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like a criminal records check or like a,
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you know, background search on somebody,
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which anybody can do right now. Anybody
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can do. And all it really needs in some
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cases is uh $64, which isn't all that
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much in the grand scheme of things,
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especially when you're trying to get the
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background on people that you're with.
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As long as you have a first, last name,
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uh you know, phone number, whatever. As
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long as you have enough information for
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these guys to work with, you can
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basically have your own private
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investigator sicked on anybody. And
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that's effectively kind of a rough
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version of what some of the paid options
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on TE allows you to do. Now, I think in
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the end of all this, it's an incredibly
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good-intentioned application. And when I
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was looking at the person making it, it
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was actually kind of a heartwarming
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reason why they made it. Apparently, the
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guy Sean Cook is a dude that ended up
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finding like his mom talking to somebody
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with a criminal record search. And uh
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yeah, he wanted to provide exper he
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wanted to provide protection to a lot of
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women that were actually going onto
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these platforms and uh you know talking
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to people that they had really no idea
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of, right? Because sometimes you could
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be talking to somebody randomly on an
00:17:23
entire like, you know, platform and you
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don't know if they're like, you know,
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convicted of like a domestic battery or
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something, right? Like, you know, this
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guy's an actual registered wife beater.
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I don't know who the [ __ ] this is. Maybe
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I should know this before I get into a
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relationship. So, it's a really
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altruistic reason why they made it.
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Unfortunately, because there is no
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verification and no standards on
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verification as even said by their own
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terms, it is an incredibly messy
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application. So, it is a truly
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altruistic app. It's just an incredibly
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messy way of doing it. What they've done
00:17:53
is not new, nothing new. It's basically
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just a gossip forum that is exclusively
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for women. And in some cases, I feel
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like if anybody's going out of their way
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to post something about a guy, uh the
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red flags, I it's a lot like going to
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Yelp. I feel like most people review
00:18:08
things if they're very negatively
00:18:10
impacted. Okay. So sometimes a jolted ex
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could come completely defame you, say
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some of the most outlandish [ __ ] And uh
00:18:16
there really isn't any way for you to I
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guess rectify that cuz I don't think
00:18:20
most women are going to go on and just
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immediately write like green flags out
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of the kindness of their heart as I
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wouldn't expect guys to as well. Like I
00:18:27
said, reviewing anything positively
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usually isn't something that people
00:18:31
spend their time doing as much as they
00:18:33
take reviewing something negatively. And
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that's just basic human psychology right
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there. So yeah, the tea dating
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application. I'm glad that I'm a married
00:18:42
man at this point because godamn
00:18:45
the dating world be wild. You know, I do
00:18:47
miss the days back then when you just
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dated people that you met through
00:18:50
hobbies or work or whatever. Still
00:18:52
happens to this day. But this overall
00:18:54
reliance on like dating applications.
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It's just such a dystopian world that
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exists and um I'm just glad I'm past it.
00:19:02
Okay, simple as that. Uh but yeah, wild
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