Artists create satirical fake Amazon dating app

A group of content creators recently decided to combine online shopping and online dating into a very fake, but very real looking app, Amazon Dating. The creators, Suzy Shinn and Ani Acopian collaborated with an animation company, Thinko, to create the app. The parody app “sells” different people, complete with profiles that look identical to a typical Amazon item page. Each page has ratings, price, Prime shipping and fun facts. And even a downloadable “non-ghosting agreement”. After browsing for potential dates, users can click and “buy” who they like or match with, prompting a fake confirmation message to pop up. According to the creators, the app was designed to poke fun at Amazon’s monopolization of almost every aspect of our lives. However, some people feel uncomfortable with the idea of monetizing humans