Being single is hard, but it’s even harder when you’re doing background checks on the men you’re still in the talking stage with via Instagram. Usually you can find some valuable info or pictures to show your friends by looking at someone’s profile, but yesterday I was faced with the unthinkable when I went to check a guy’s tagged photos – I found out that he was a photographer.
I’m not sure how I’m going to keep dating after this.
Every picture in Tyler’s tagged photos were all grainy photos of different strangers, with no actual picture of him in sight. There were also way too many professionally taken pictures of half-naked girls, which made me wonder if they all matched with him on Tinder too. No, wait, yeah, they definitely did.
I believe that everyone should be in at least one of their tagged photos on Instagram. Is that too much to ask for? According to Tyler’s page, I guess it really is.
Without seeing any real tagged pictures of him, how am I supposed to know what he looks like from other people’s perspectives, which is all that actually matters?
Not only am I suffering from this dilemma personally, but I’m also panicked about the larger issue at hand. Who’s going to tell photographers that not everyone who looks them up on IG wants to look at their portfolio; some of us just want to see what they look like from a different angle than the only one they have on their main feed, which is always below the chin to make their jawline look bigger.
I still have no idea how tall you are, Tyler!
This whole experience has led me to delete Tinder for good, and Instagram too. At this rate, it looks like I’m going to be single forever, and I’m fine with that now.
Maybe I can still go on the date to get a couple of good photos out of it. But then I’ll be directly contributing to the problem at hand when I eventually post the picture and tag him in it as well. I guess you really can’t win in this modern dating world.
After this horrifying experience, I’ll make sure to never talk to a photographer romantically again. It’s just all way too stressful. Unless he’s, like, really good at it or something.
