Dating apps can be terrible if you like to consider yourself a human with feelings.

So when a match initiates a chat in an offensive or bizarre way, dating apps start to disgustingly descend beyond their intrinsic level of horribleness.

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Here is a collection of particularly awful first messages that sorely mistaken people thought would help them find true love (or at least love for one night).

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