Dating Apps are GOOD

[@HiddenInTheReeds]

Yotam being straight up about his life makes me realize that we are all living the same experiences. I just recently tried using dating apps again and have gone through all of these storylines myself.

[@FUNexplosion32]

So tru

[@Yassinius]

I love how you're standing outside a waffle house at night without your shoes on.

[@LukieLuke5]

Smart because nobody can steal them.

[@randomness4272]

@@LukieLuke5 is that from anthing? its very funny

[@user-vi4xy1jw7e]

Sounds about right for Waffle House

[@thorobliterator1934]

1:42 did yotam green screen himself... in front of a green screen? This is next level cinematography

[@Flymehomegiantswan]

dating apps are an existential nightmare and i want to headbutt a speeding charter bus every time a match leaves me on read indefinitely instead of just unmatching

[@Flounderboy15]

I will continue not doing things AND fearing rejection, thank you very much.

[@_bug56]

just show a girl some of yotam's cartoons and you'll be sure to win her over!

[@magoomba]

Whenever I talk to strangers, I ruminate so hard on the conversation it makes me want to stop existing. So you're doing great.

[@Ellieescent]

When I was just 21, I went out with a guy I met on OkCupid who was a few years older than me and lived in the same area as my parents (who I was visiting for the summer). We sat down to dinner at a nice restaurant and started getting to know each other, but the moment he said "I own my own home", I knew we were at two different places in our lives. He was a good dude though, paid for dinner and I'm pretty sure he went for a handshake at the end of the night. A few weeks later, I was picking up mail at my parent's PO box, and some significantly older guy was staring at me intensely. I thought he was mad I was leaving my dog in the car while I was picking up the mail or something. When I came back outside, he was still there, and started chatting me up. He asked if I was on OkCupid, and then said he had seen my profile recently and that we should go out sometime. That was when I knew it was time to delete my profile.

[@WillyD]

I switched to my creating account to point out something: I have been following your work since I was 13. I am now 30. I moved from my home country of Puerto Rico to Austin as a single man hoping to find career work in animation or drawing or idk something You are living my life. Except you document it and make content out of it. You inspire me. I pointed out I switched to my creating account because I hope to find a discipline you have to upload content more frequently. I have so much content I just don't sit down to edit. I hope I can change that. I love you Yotam!!!

[@nostalgicpie]

You got this, dude!

[@ELHOMIE_LA]

I do like this format of video, wouldn't mind seeing some more of this 😏

[@JREG]

so tru!!

[@TerraLumaG]

Why did no one see this

[@opallennoch655]

Yotam, you're always so raw and genuine about stuff. It's very appreciated in this modern era. Thanks for being a weird parasocial crush

[@TehOlsenator]

After 10+ years of watching, this is your new format. Keep it up Yotam

[@boltvanderhuge8711]

Wow the special effects are really good in this you can't even tell that you're missing a foot from the tattoo attempt

[@wondersuave]

"You better be careful because I'm garnering-... grooming an army that'll...." Idk why that made me laugh so much 😂

[@SMELLE]

I typically dislike using dating apps because of the pressure it adds to the situation of meeting a new person, (theres an immediate expectation of romantic interest as opposed to developing a relationship more naturally with someone you know) but I still try sometimes anyway since I'm not really going out and meeting new people otherwise. My latest experience was going out with this guy a couple times and having him be way too forward with me. The first date we went bowling and he kept going in for the hug every time I rolled my ball. He even did the typical "wheres my hug" thing after the date was over, he probably hugged me about 10 times throughout the date and it was very awkward. Even after this weird experience, I understand that first dates can be weird and I've been trying to push myself to at least try out second dates even if the first one wasn't perfect, so I ended up going on a second date with this guy. We started out by getting Mexican food at a food truck. While he was ordering our food, the woman working there asked him if he wanted any hot sauce, to which he responded with "No thanks, I think we'll be saving the spicy stuff for later" while giving me a seductive side eye. Beyond my own control, my entire face contorted into an intense grimace and I think I audibly wretched. It was so embarrassing, especially in front of the other lady. What made it worse was this was only the beginning of the date. We went for a walk in the park after that and I spent my time realizing we don't really share the same interests so it was over after that.

[@LazyPillow]

that is so funny i am terribly sorry

[@SMELLE]

@@LazyPillow You're right though, it was uncomfortable at the time, but at least I can laugh about how ridiculous it was lol

[@leonguide93]

Depends if by natural relationship forming you mean, more of a slow pace but still, dating, or making an acquaintance with no romantic interest involved at all and later deciding if you want to start dating with that person Because dating apps, for most people, serve exactly the purpose of finding dates. Everybody have their own pace of developing relationships of course,, but those apps also provide most desirable convenience of knowing what the other person you've matched with wants and making your wants known Some apps are focused more on friendships. Or they let you choose to put a tag of "looking for friends" in your bio. And also just writing out that you are looking for more of a slow burn platonic friendship first is also always an option. It's best for both you and your matches to know that. Of course there will be people completely disregarding everything in your bio, but that just comes with dating in general. And men usually expect those casual matches to be fwbs, I imagine. In the end, dating apps are still just a tool. Used by a giant mass of people that sometimes form certain trends and customs of using them, sure. But with matches that are genuinely interested in you as a person, your experience will be as good as the cards you lay out on the table.

[@fistwizard2552]

love you Yotam. You keep the lights on in that creative part of my soul.

[@clocked2002]

Man your old animations gave me so much nostalgia, I'm so nice to see you're still uploading cool content after all these years :')

[@Faheyhey]

You're one of my favorite creators, so don't take it lightly when I say this might be the best thing you've ever made I loved it man

[@nckv]

Bumble's green circle is the biggest hit patriarchy ever received

[@Daorf]

Green screening himself onto a green screen is why Yotam's comedy has stayed relevant for like twenty years.

[@cartoongrump]

Always love your talky live action videos, you speak about the most mundane things in the funniest way. Keep it up 😎😎😎 and maybe an idea, in another one of these types of videos maybe you could do it alongside a friend, online or IRL it doesn’t matter but could be a fun way to mix it up

[@gushingblood]

You are quiet charismatic on the mic, I like this format of video! This alongside your animations is 👌 you are a very silly goofy guy

[@samkadam9260]

My gf and i had to break up and the day after i hooked up with a girl on tinder. The next week we went to a small concert and i fainted and lost my front tooth. She hasnt spoken to me since

[@Puppykerry]

I like these little snippets of your life. It makes me, and many others, feel less anxious about doing things alone :)

[@TheKrigeron]

Hey this great. Best content you've made. If you integrate more animation and up the thumbnail game it could fit into the storytime youtuber mold but with your unique experiences.

[@LazyPillow]

i am the worse at thumbnails and titles its humiliating

[@derpaderp9824]

These are so good, keep doing these Yotam!!

[@michaeljagdharry]

I love you so much dude. Your energy and presence are my spirit animal

[@aarondoesitagain]

Yotam this is so real and I love you sharing I do hope you advertise your KZbinr clout because it's genuinely interesting and worth bragging about. You're a legend man 💪 Even if you don't mention your status, you're a talented artist songwriter comedian. I hope you own it

[@magpieteacozy7385]

I love you Yotam. Been a fan for many years. Fave vid is of your cat Boulnik (im sure that’s spelled wrong) with balloons tied to her on the roof. Been in the cult for years

[@NeemaFahimy]

i love this style of video dude keep it up!

[@dyladino]

11:40 " yes of course ive been looking at you youre my loved one i love you" Thats the dream

[@14dgamez]

Bro i love these vids 😂 great story telling and graphics make it so funny lol

[@Funk-Fox]

thank u yotam sounds like u had some fun, glad 2 hear it

[@SociopathicDomo]

another great video Yotam. Keep em coming!

[@jeysmoothies]

I really like this video. It made me laugh and the way you told the stories was good.

[@Franjolos]

Amazing vid Yotam ❤️❤️❤️

[@Boufjee]

Love every second of this one :D on point jokes and editting (like i love how u just showed a page of a storyboard, it did its job), casual but heartfelt monologues, an animated character AND kinda breaking the 4th wall there at the end? 👏🏼👏🏼 Such a modern and refreshing way to do stand up comedy (also without you having to face a physical crowd lol, win win)! Keep up the good job Yotam~ 💪🏼(Òo Ó💪🏼 )

[@LazyPillow]

thats actually a comic i drew at the time, i dont really storyboard these greenscreen vids. and thankyou!

[@SuperPowerButton]

I'm also in that boat of appreciating the way that apps let the ladies express interest so that I don't have to cold approach like a weirdo. But as a brown in the south, it super sucks

[@Alec_Reaper]

I love that sims sound effect @ 2:32

[@algumaccoisa]

Imagine you are going to eat waffles in the night and you find a man whit a microphone and without his shoes talking about how good dating apps are whit you

[@BurtKocain]

I hate dating apps because it's so easy to be non-committal. There's always someone else just a swipe away.

[@viliussmproductions]

I love this latest episode of News show

[@Sarathechimera]

love you yotam

[@asakasoring]

Met my now husband 8 years ago on plenty of fish. I’ve had horrible experiences with meeting guys up until I met him. People lied about their age, used 10+ year old photos in their profile, just some weird things like that

[@satanscaturday]

Great content Yotam, very nice

[@wespapes2054]

I've been using dating apps for a while and I don't have a whole lotta luck with them. Maybe I should green screen myself into cooler places

[@ShiaShnaky]

i find it so uncanny to see you make references to the old internet, nudges on msn and such. Because when you were like 15 or whatever making hot potato on albino blacksheep, i was literally like 13yo nudging people on msn, changing my msn name to my mood and logging in and out to get peoples attention. idk where i was going with this but you're kept in that same part of my brain/nostalgia and I kind of forgot you still exist as a person, so seeing you just do these nostalgia pings is just uncanny

[@flashmozzg]

Damn. I can so relate. Except the part of actually talking to someone.

[@cool_sword]

Who else remembers when the Women Community had their annual meeting and established a rule that all Women had to talk about how much they liked pizza in their app profiles

[@MCCanaryVideos]

honestly I think liking pizza is just a human trait I think that "not liking pizza" would be more bespoke to a personality trait than liking it I- I'd want to know why

[@Turglayfopa]

you were brave for telling off the ambulance ambulances can be scary, the way they siren through the street with their loud sound and bright lights

[@columbia4798]

always here for you (tam)

[@Julia-bt9tv]

omg Yotam you have to come to Toronto, you throw a rock you hit a weed shop

[@Julia-bt9tv]

also, amazing outlook I need to do this

[@traltixx]

superb lighting!

[@LazyPillow]

i noticed my pupils disappearing, then remembered it takes like 3 hours to export .mov version with transparent background and decided i dont always need to have pupils

[@mac203782]

Sick, I love these videos!

[@Quminki]

I love genuine and real you are

[@mccthibbit]

My Hinge account just gave me the boot for 24hrs for login errors and it's making me think about whether or not I should actually start going out in my area to see what's out there, maybe shake things up.

[@sweetpea644]

Yotam, I am honored to be growing up with you :)

[@licka]

That ending was gold.

[@josephhoward9631]

Using dating apps in rural areas blows major ass. You just see the same girls over and over again, the same ones that either rejected you or ignored your messages. "What's that OKCupid? I have a 92% match with honeybunny23? Wow, I should let her know that even though I messaged her 3 months ago and she never replied!" Thank god I moved to the city.

[@bokchoiman]

These are the girls that get ran through the most

[@bigrathole]

This was great dude

[@sunset33533]

The book "The Dating App Confessions" by Logan Tindell has some good stories about the apps

[@silvernug]

Thank you for all the grooming, my coat is very shiny now.

[@kaiju96]

man my ex gf and i were totally into and bonded over yotams stuff for years. We referred to eachother as "limbless loves" and wanted to bone him so bad. Listened to his breakup album a lot when i broke it off and awkwardly sent her the songs being like "this is us, this it how it feels to break up with you" which is a STUPID thing for an ex to do??? Id say yotam was a pretty big part of my lesbo experience

[@Spurgte]

But you have an arm So you aren't limbless

[@oldoutlet6946]

I prefer online dating rather than trying to ask someone out irl. Mainly because there's more chance of a shared intent to get to know someone on a site specifically for finding others as opposed to asking someone at a bar who may or may not already be dating or just isn't interested. If I could give simple online dating advice, it's this: -Be content with being single before you start looking. Desperation isn't attractive. -Never pay to use a dating app/site. They prey on desperation and try to rush you to pay. Find clever loopholes to get people on those sites to talk to you via email or other. -Know the difference between dating sites and hookup sites. -Do your research on which sites have the most activity and are more reliable. -Don't be afraid to talk to multiple people at the same time until you find someone you start to truly click with. This is a decent method of weeding out the ghosters without dedicating too much time or attention to them. But don't lead anyone on if you found someone already. -Take things slow. Best results come from the people who are willing to not rush and just form a friendship first. It's not friend-zoning if the shared intent to try dating later is still there. It's thanks to learning these the hard way that helped me get my gf whom I've been with for over 2 years now.

[@xavierchen2545]

Sending love from Sweden! 🇸🇪

[@xcl]

i am also a human with human feelings

[@grimslepers]

these videos make me want to go to tel aviv and start a friend group

[@meganjohnson2439]

*When your parasocial crush encourages parasocial attention* I would you rate as 5 meowmeowbeanz 👉👈

[@alb1reo]

I love women I love talking about girl topics with females like being on your period and what not

[@carrieelaine729]

This is the greatest video EVERRR!!! 🥰

[@eliotguerin192]

I always tell girls I meet that I was a king on Newgrounds 20 years ago and then they never speak to me again. I’m just like Yotam

[@jasmine-ruff-puff9951]

I've never used dating apps but I'm thinking about joining. It's scary though 😭

[@hellosabrinachaney]

ayo if you want a lady who can have a wonderful kind of day, where we can learn to work and play, and get along with each other, then come say HEY!!!! at me plz. is this how online dating works, idk

[@maggiescarlet]

Great bio tbh!

[@Shiralkian]

Fun fact that nobody asked for: I made a Tinder account once and filled the profile with photos taken from unflattering angles, with very ugly expressions and silly hairstyles (think 3 ponytails in random spots). It got reported, reviewed by Tinder mods, and then unfrozen because it didn't actually break any TOS. So now you now, folks! Being ugly isn't a bannable offense on Tinder! (And you might be wondering: Well maybe you got reported for being MEAN on DMS! But the meanest thing I did was ask a guy if he didn't get spaggetti tangled in his tongue piercing when he ate them. As an opener. He never replied back...)

[@Teauma]

Fully support the try-your-shot-then-accept-rejection-with-grace so the what-if doesn't keep living in your head

[@TaccoToast]

I'll fight for you, Mr. Perel

[@iamjogun]

I was in the online dating pool for about 6 months before organically meeting my now fiancée in person. What a shitty six months lol, so glad that my fiancée and I worked out.

[@Zedrinbot]

he's just like me fr fr

[@TheWhitePianoKeyProductions]

I also feel like no one reads bio's and friends even told me my bio was way to long and you just gotta have one witty sentence. Also typical bio: Love wine, like to travel, open minded. 70% of the people have these 3

[@Cynthiahe1]

You should see what it's like being on those apps and swiping through men 😬 Love the vid Yotam

[@maggiescarlet]

Yes Yotam you should get Grindr, it would make great content for us, your loyal cult

[@BlueKazuki]

Making friends organically as an adult is hard. Hard to make anything other than surface level acquaintances online. I feel ya. Or at least I think I do and I'm a big parasocial cultist.

[@tradtke101]

The only thing I've found that works is the ancient Greek concept of Xenia, which would involve the ritual exchange of gifts back-and-forth to create and strengthen friendships/alliances. So if New Acquaintance happens to mention in passing that they are moving, I'll be like "I've got a pickup truck if you need some help." It's a pretty aggressive move and they'll usually be like "oh nah thanks though". But then the day before the move when they realize how deeply fucked they are, they might text you and be like "hey actually could you come by for an hour or two to help with the couches?" And of course you wind up spending like 4-6 hours sweating your dick off. But at the end of it, you have one of two outcomes: A. New Acquaintance is now upgraded to Friendship Prospect. B. New Acquaintance is a sociopath. How do you test? Well, now you ask for a (smaller) favor in return. Make it something easy, but not trivial. Ask them to watch your dog for the night or pick you up at the airport. If they make BS excuses or flake on you, they are a Sociopath. Your wager of several hours of labor didn't pay off. Cut your losses and forget them. If they agree and come through on the favor, you now have a AAA Friendship Prospect that you can easily upgrade to Friend just by inviting them to activities. This process legitimately works. And is basically how strangers from different tribes became friends/allies for a lot of human civilization.

[@CapnSquiggles]

Yeah, I'll fight fight for you, Yotam. Lets beat up a chef!

[@coconutwater99]

I’ll fight for you yotam you are my favorite guy

[@RobertThomsonDev]

This was so freaking funny

[@ArtezzGaming]

you are my beautiful spirit animal

[@vincentxie3090]

I'm only 14 and once I got older I used dating apps I will always be in addicted to that site

[@meatscarf9118]

i love you yotam ever since you were a lil boy but like at the same time i was a lil boy ya know?

[@YungGoo92]

I love these

[@janaer.845]

im so glad you don’t kill women for not saying yes to a date 👍🏻

[@shardar1924]

the feminist part almost killed me man, keep up with this, its genuinely funny

[@T038EE]

love ya bro

[@wep6433]

More please, good video

[@Le0xo]

Lmao I can picture u doing standup

[@danielj3010]

This is one your best videos.

[@TulipsToKiss]

ngl ding dong ditching an ambulance and then sitting down to 2 family sized ZTs sounds like a decent date lol open w that on your next tinder match or message or w/e it's called

[@Dustbyte20]

I've flopped between thre.... four apps and haven't had much luck. Doesn't help I'm unfamiliar with the area dispite living in this state for five years now. I had a couple promising ones, but it went dead.

[@VikingSteeez]

Probably my favorite series on KZbin. Keep it up. Also I'd die for you. or pay you $5 per month; whichever works better for you.

[@nicholasharvey5628]

that ending was tops

[@ALittleSourCream]

i'll fight for you yotam

[@vincentxie3090]

I also wanna know are dating apps only if you're in a relationship or it could be something else