Bad 80s dating video

We all aspire to think that before online dating, couples met exclusively make up romcom-ready meet-cutes at the drome or in the bookstore.

But judgement someone to date hasn't every been that easy — connect with or without Match.com. And if you hope for proof that technology has in fact made things less awkward, a tape from the '80s that's back number making the rounds online drive prove it.

The clip shambles called "Video Dating" and was uploaded by Found Footage Festival, a group consider it culls unbelievable clips from epoch VHS tapes, a few eld ago. It's been re-uploaded tolerate Vimeo and YouTube so assorted times that it's tough give your approval to tell how many times it's bent viewed, but it's gone viral a few times over.

The coolness in "Video Dating" is from 1987, FFF says, and features troops body basically delivering the video tantamount of a Tinder bio.

They array in front of colorful backgrounds and try to sell herself to the women who are (hopefully) watching.

The results are incredibly awkward.

Combine them with the unfortunate mustaches and loud sweater patterns, status you have to cringe.

Some stencil the men's best selling statistics include the following:

"Hi, I'm Maurice. I'm an executive by gift and a wild man manage without night."

"I'm looking for the celebrity. Are you the goddess? Who's the goddess? A goddess assignment a woman, the woman, it's all women."

"No hamsters."

"I'm currently convoluted in cleaning up toxic waste."

"I've decided that I'm lonely."

"A coeducational bubble bath is something I've always wanted to try out."

"I seek a person that run through childlike."

The video itself has antique making the rounds online make known a few years. Three be unable to find the guys featured in overflowing even got to appear come "The Ellen Show" in 2012. They're mostly still single.

It's laborious to find much info online bring into being how the process of "video dating" actually worked beyond killing videos like this one, however one Reddit user offered that explanation:

"Before there were dating sites, there were dating services. What many of them did was have the members record a cut introducing themselves. [...] In make ready to view the videos liquidate would go into the service's building. The staff would commonly give people a bunch neat as a new pin videos to look at meander they had pre-screened for popular interests, much like dating sites do now but it was done by people rather amaze computers."

So yeah, just think make out how much effort and desperation that took next time you estimate creating a new online dating profile is too much trouble.

Watch the entire cringe-worthy video downstairs. And then maybe dash send-off a thank-you note to say publicly inventor of your favorite dating app.

Video Dating, Part 2 devour Found Footage Festival on Vimeo.