Alright, y’all – the dating “trends” are getting out of hand. Let’s count em, shall we?

Ghosting

Orbiting

NATO mode

Gophering

Getting Zombied

Goblintimacy

Winter coating

Pocketing

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.

Via the New York Post:

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!