Put the fish down.

Men on dating sites:
Posting one of the few photos of themselves they have
Posting a photo they have where they're actually happy and feeling a sense of accomplishment
- Only to be ignored by any actual women. Guaranteed to be accosted by bots and time wasting sex workers.
  I don't know how there are any straight men left on dating sites other than the "top 10%," of course.
  
  I dunno either.
  And people wonder why incels are a thing....
- I've never taken a selfie but I do have some fish pics
- Nobody wants to see dead animals on dating sites. I appreciate you have hobbies but you can just list them as an interest.
  
  I wouldn't have though seeing fish would be such a big deal to some. Then again, never used dating sites so wouldn't know
  
  Oh i don't fish. Nice assumption.
  
  I was talking shit about this to a group of friends one day, saying that how the hell do you think that's a good idea and one of them piped up that he had a picture of him with a fish he caught and justified it as "showing them they can provide food". I might as well have a picture of me in the fucking grocery store with a cart full of food with that logic. I asked him to ask some of his matches what they thought about it but I dont think he ever did. Needless to say I don't think that man has actually gotten laid in a decade.

It’s called Plenty of Fish! I thought it was a fishing site?!
- It's got plenty of phishing alright
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Monkey brain say show women fish, man good hunter, women eat good, come back to cave
- A pic where he is playing with kids might actually work in that primitive sort of way.

Living in the Midwest, this is also super common on women's dating profiles. I'd estimate probably more than 1 out of every 10 has a fish
- Yeah I've seen that on Facebook. I don't get it.
  
  When do you have pics taken of you? Especially as a man it can be that you have a very limited selection of pics. Selfies are another matter.

I think someone is really fishing for compliments here.
This smells a little bit fishy.
- I can neither confirm nor deny the rumor that Ryan Gosling's trailer on set always smelled of fish.
- There is no need to be on such a high perch about all this.
- Margot, it sounds like you're a bit jelly of the fish
  
  I'm an actress, not a jellyfish, you silly billy!

The last time I made anything like a profile for tinder was when I made one for PoF back in the before times, in the long-long ago, the year 2007. I didn't have fish pictures, but I did have a picture of me riding a unicycle.
It was more effective than I expected.
- It's called plenty of fish for a reason, you're supposed to post pictures with fish.
- I think I'd enjoy that.

You gotta understand just how few pictures men have of themselves. Most of us aren't randomly taking selfies; a lot of us don't even have pictures of us with our friends.
- I do photography and have thousands of photos, I have like actually 10 of myself, and those were mostly taken by my friend with the intent of putting on dating apps.
  Online dating has evercerated my self confidence though. So I just detest photos of myself ever more.
- The point is the effort. Dating takes effort. If you can't even make the effort to ensure you get a nice pic or two of yourself, how much effort are you going to put into a relationship?
  There are very easy ways to take pics of yourself without it being a selfie nowadays. Phone tripods with Bluetooth remotes exsist for $25 off Amazon.
  "We just don't have pics of ourselves." ...so take some, instead I of just rolling over and saying "oh well."

It is customary among her people that the man bring a leg of a lingta to the first courtship dinner. Make sure it's fresh, as if you had just killed it. Then use the leg to sweep aside everything on the table and declare in a loud voice, "I have brought you this! From this day, I wish to provide food for you and your House! All I ask is to share your company and do honor to your name!"
- It's actually spelt LIngta' but maybe closer to LIngt'a' or to be specific a LIngt'a' Haj'dob mev'obDeSna. Translated to English is roughly 'I am certain that this Lingta leg will feed you'. But Klingons are lazy so it's shortened to LIngta.
- That's what we call an attention getter!

quickly jots down notes, “go fishing… catch fish… show to barbie.” got it, now what? I’m recently single after a long marriage, HOW DO I ATRACT WOMEN?11!?!
- You have women friends? Have them make your dating profile if you want to date online. Seriously. They'll make you sound awesome while telling the truth. Chances are at least one of them is good at taking pictures.
  
  Thanks. The comment was for comedic effect, but when I’m ready to date I’ll use this advice.
- HOW DO I ATRACT WOMEN?11!?!
  Excessive amounts of Axe or Old Spice. Those ads would never lie about their efficiency!
  
  This is the helpful advice I was looking for! Heh
  20 years later…. Why am I still single?!?1 I followed expert advice from Lenny!!!
- Talk to them. Just put a picture of yourself smiling nicely on your dating app and listen. Be a good dude.
  
  You effectively can't just talk to women on dating sites. Thanks to how matching works, you have to successfully sell yourself with pictures to get your profile read, and successfully sell yourself with words in the profile before you can actually talk with anyone.
  Back before matching was a thing, it wasn't much better. You could talk but you'd usually be ignored because the woman's inbox would be filled with too much crap for her to go through it all.
  
  Just put a picture of yourself smiling nicely on your dating app
  About that ... https://healthland.time.com/2011/05/27/advice-for-online-daters-if-youre-a-guy-dont-smile/

I know a fair amount of girls from Minnesota and Oregon who would like that because they're into fishing themselves. They grew up fishing with their fathers.

YOOOO LOOK AT DIS BARBIE! I found these fishes inside the car

well if it would work for me it should work for women, right?

do fishkeeping
is science and more interesting
- Highly agree. I love fishkeeping, so finding a dude that likes it too would be great... as long as they semi-understand what they're talking about. No tropical fish without heaters, or tanks that aren't properly cycled for example...

Bears love men who fish, they're trying to attract bears.

You want fish? Common, pick a fish.

I don’t know. I really like those fish selfies.

Wouldn't it be more realistic if Barbie was also Ken? Since most catfishs are dudes going for dudes?
Or is the meme referring to something else?
- Yes, the meme is referring to something else.
  For some reason, cishet american men on dating apps love to put a picture of themselves holding up a fish they caught while fishing as one of their dating profile pics.
  Nobody really knows why that’s supposed to attract a potential dating partner, but it’s really common.
  
  Nobody really knows why that’s supposed to attract a potential dating partner, but it’s really common
  Back when I did online dating I wrote about playing computer games, not because I expected that to be attractive to the average woman (of course it isn't) but because I was hoping to meet one of the rare women who shared my interest.
  A friend of mine managed to marry a woman who agreed to have their honeymoon be a week-long canoe trip through the wilderness in Maine, complete with living off of the fish they caught. It can happen!
  
  I can see it working to filter out incompatible partners.
  Attraction.. maybe for someone looking for a certain kind of partner.
  
  I can speak to this as a southerner, a lot of us were/are reluctant to take selfies, but something we have in spades are post hunting/fishing photos showing our catch. Also it's something a lot of us were raised to appreciate and surely women from our area appreciate it too (some do)
  
  As someone who does not use dating apps, it seems to me that a lot of men who are not city dwellers get lots of joy out of fishing. It seems rather insulting to demean someone for showing one of their favorite activities to potential mates. To those who would do that, I would ask why not simply move on quietly?
  Now that I think of it, those men are dodging bullets like Neo. Smart guys. If I ever decide to put myself out there, I'm putting up pictures of myself at a campground with a fishing rod and bicycle in the background. That should weed out any women who expect four star resorts, expensive restaurants, and expensive toys for their mere presence.
  
  I don't
  I'm just unattractive.
  Like oh hey, I have a house and a job and a really cute kid and here's one where I'm wearing a winter coat in 109F weather to show I'm funny
  honestly I realize that dating apps are pretty much a scam.
  Actually, they're so much of a scam I'm sitting here with my AI assistant and webstorm and thinking about how I'd make a more legitimate dating website and it would just end up making me money by selling useless services to desperate singles too busy to meet other people
  
  Ah
  I'd guess it should send a "see how I can provide for food even without using money" kind of way?
  But yeah it's stupid
  
  We just don't have a lot of photos of ourselves, I'd imagine even less selection if you only count recent photos since that's probably what you would want to put on a dating profile.