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tranquilsea's avatar

What do you think of the website beautifulpeople.com?

Asked by tranquilsea (17775points) June 20th, 2011

BeautifulPeople.com

*Connect with beautiful men and women in your local area and from around the world
*Chat live with other beautiful men and women
*Make an intimate connection
*Meet REAL beautiful people who actually look in real life as they do online
*Attend exclusive parties and events
*Be ‘discovered’
*Be part of the largest most exclusively beautiful community in the world
*Browse beautiful profiles of men and women without sifting through all the riff raff
*Vote on existing members: A dating site where existing members hold the key to the door.

They have been in the news for kicking 30,000 ugly people off their website. At Christmas they kicked off 500 members because they gained too much weight over the holidays.

I burst out laughing as I read the above article.

In my experience the people who think of themselves as being beautiful are also the most vain and largely a pain in the ass to date.

What do you think?

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24 Answers

TexasDude's avatar

I think it’s stupid.

However, their website, their rules. *shrugs

BarnacleBill's avatar

It’s funny that their landing page images are so heavily photoshopped. You can’t even get on to look at the pictures without being voted attractive enough to be on there? Lame.

TexasDude's avatar

Here are the founders of the website.

Here they are without the benefit of photoshop.

They look like huge douchebags.

DeanV's avatar

If I wanted to meet a tool, I’m sure it would be the first place to check.

DarlingRhadamanthus's avatar

@Fiddle_Playing_Creole_Bastard…Mr FPCB….You’re a heck of a lot more “beautiful” than those two “legends in their own minds.”

no need to send a check, this is a freebie, lol

bob_'s avatar

I think it’s good. Let the vain date each other.

_zen_'s avatar

It’s clever. It’s like fluther, but for dating. Exclusive, i.e. with certain rules.

MyNewtBoobs's avatar

I’m with @bob_ – let them date each other, and then they don’t inflict their vanity on the rest of us.

aprilsimnel's avatar

How do those douchenozzles even qualify to be on their own site? They aren’t even cute!

sarahtalkpretty's avatar

I think it’s kind of funny. I’m sure some self-proclaimed beautiful people are irate at being rejected and I think that’s kind of funny too.

TexasDude's avatar

@aprilsimnel oh come on now, you can’t tell me you wouldn’t get with this. ;-P

bob_'s avatar

@Fiddle_Playing_Creole_Bastard Dude, is that guy’s face melting?

aprilsimnel's avatar

@Fiddle_Playing_Creole_Bastard, he can call me when he looks like this. Or this. Hell, or even this.

TexasDude's avatar

@bob_ clearly he has stepped out of a Salvador Dali painting.

@aprilsimnel lolololol that’s a call you probably won’t be receiving.

ucme's avatar

The prick in @Fiddle_Playing_Creole_Bastard pic looks like Hellboy after a night on the piss!
I think they should rename said website, shallowemptyheadedbuttfucks.com sounds about right :¬)

Plucky's avatar

I think it’s incredibly obnoxious and vain. I agree that the founders, especially the face melt guy, are not beautiful in the least possible way (except for the beautiful money they’re making from all these vanity obsessed superficial ignoramuses). I wonder what makes their members “beautiful” enough to get that honoured privilege. Maybe it should be called PutOutOrGetOut.com.

Any ways, let them have their little website. Sooner or later they’ll end up voting one another out and there’ll be no one left but the face melt guy.

By the way, that Asian woman on their homepage (that was linked in the question) has something creepy going on with her crotch ..just sayin’.

Jellie's avatar

There’s a place for everyone and this is simply a site for peolpe who only want to date peolpe who look a certain way. It’s douchey but remember we do the same thing when we chose to date people (ie go for looks) and the webiste is just doing it over the internetz. Same difference.

Bellatrix's avatar

It seems very shallow to me. Even if they would accept me and they wouldn’t, I wouldn’t want to be part of such a website. I look for a lot more in those I interact with than just their looks. I understand we are all attracted by looks to a point, but there has to be a lot more than that to keep me interested and I am not sure I would find someone who felt looks were so important they need to join a website to weed out those less perfect specimens would be someone I would want to interact with.

LuckyGuy's avatar

They all deserve each other.

Hypocrisy_Central's avatar

Jumping Jehoshaphat, it is a logical inevitable part of humanity. Be they self-prescribed hunks in their own mind when people meet it is always pie in the beginning. Put people in a room with pie on the table and tell them they can chose any they wanted, most will go to the pie that looks the plumpest, has the flakiest looking crust and the best color. They are not going to gravitate to the pie that looks overcooked, kind of flat, and with a hard crust. Like people you never know what you really have until you cut into it. The ”good-looking” pie might not have enough filling and it might not be sweet or very chewy. Same with people, the homely looking parson may have a beautiful golden sole but if no one gets past the crust they are greatly out of luck. Even on sites that don’t exclude or use unscientific methods as this site do, those who are more scientifically attractive will get more hits on their profile.

Before anyone even tried to combat it with ”I know so and so who is married and they don’t look like Hollywood or some hunk”, if it is someone you know and have constant, or frequent enough meetings with them to learn what is under the crust and in the filling, what developed happened over time. You don’t have that at a club, a bar, a concert, etc. In those instances, it is all pie; the better-looking ones grab the eye.

I think the site is rather insulting to many and disingenuous but I see it as quite logical of an extreme most humans have whether or not they want to believe or admit it.

roundsquare's avatar

People value different things. Let them do what they want.

It is pretty funny though. That splash page is horrible… I didn’t know beautiful people all worked at the circus.

tranquilsea's avatar

I thought this question was deleted because it was a duplicate. Hmmm.

linguaphile's avatar

Very. Scary.

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