Online Dating At Its Hilarious Worst

Let's take a journey to the lighter side of online dating.

Dating sites can be surprisingly serious places. Everyone is stressed about picking the right photo, answering the right questions, figuring out how to get their profiles noticed, weeding out the princes from the frogs from the axe murderers...it's enough to make you a complete basket case.

We all know the best way to get through stressful situations: laugh at them.

And that's just what many people are doing.

Take Antidates, an Instagram account that celebrates the best of the worst of online dating. The tagline is "Actual responses to dating ads. They never had a chance." Antidates is not for the faint of heart - prepare yourself for lots of gratuitous ab shots, faux gangster poses, sexually explicit conversations, and the occasional mime - but it's definitely good for a giggle.

There's also A(n)nals of Online Dating, which offers the following mission statement: "Online dating is the worst. Submit the horrific messages you get, and we will collectively laugh at them." Points are assigned based on "lack of basic spelling and punctuation skills; bad sexual innuendo; reliance on cliche; terrible taste in books, music or movies; use of twelve-year-old-girl text-slang; and creep factor." The higher the total point value, the more comically awful the message. Where else are you going to find the phrase "poop ice cream?"

(Please don't answer that.)

On the Tumblr front, there's It's Not Ok, OkCupid. The theme is the same: share the funniest, worst messages you've received on OkCupid so everyone else can enjoy them for the entertainment factor. It includes gems like "Wishing you were older and fatter, then I think we could last" and offers of "discrete pleasure" in the park. That last one might be a turn on for math nerds, but probably not for anyone else.

Online Dating Is Terrifying brings joy in the form of misogynist come-ons like "No woman can be super hot and keep a decent job at the same time," people who list their favorite movies as porn and Disney films, and tests on important subjects like "Finding out if you can survive if you have sex with me."

On Why They're Single, the name speaks for itself. Upload funny emails, awkward photos, and scraping-the-bottom-of-the-barrel profiles from the dating underworld.

And there's plenty more where that came from. ItsNotAMatch.com, ABadCaseOfTheDates.com, BadOnlineDates.com, WorstOnlineDate.com, BuzzFeed's "26 Completely Unexplainable Dating Site Pictures"...the list is endless.

Sure, it's not so nice to make fun of others, but at least it boosts our confidence in an area that many of us lack it. Besides, when you get right down to it, who's really a suave online dater anyway?