Their love lives now Hinge on their living arrangements.
A single gal’s address, regardless of her looks or smarts, is now emerging as the most attractive quality to sleazy guys on dating apps who are on the hunt for free room and board rather than true romance.
It’s the dawn of the short-term stay “hobosexual.”
“Warning girls, they’re using Hinge as Airbnb,” Emily Durham, a lifestyle and career content creator from Toronto, Canada, a 2026 FIFA World Cup host city, cautioned 1.6 million video viewers, virtually blowing the whistle on the rising trend among swipe-happy, cheap, swindling men.
Unveiling their grimy game, Durham explained that a good friend recently matched with a handsome hunk on the popular dating app. After a few flirty exchanges, the heartthrob offered to wine and dine Durham’s chum with a weekend-long date in her neighborhood.
“He was like, ‘The only catch is, I might need to stay over because [I live] far,’” Durham claimed. “And she was like, ‘No. I don’t know you.’ And he was like, ‘Yeah, well I also have a social engagement in your neighborhood…So it might just make sense for me to stay over.’”
Once the unnamed friend rebuffed the request, yet again, the presumed freeloading fella fessed up, “‘Honestly, I’m not looking for anything serious. I’m not looking for anything long-term. I just want to take you out, have a good time and spend the weekend together.’”
The dolt’s thinly veiled intentions nearly sent Durham over the edge.
“They’re using Hinge like Airbnb,” she reiterated in fury, inciting a firestorm of testimonials from women who’ve, too, encountered creeps on the prowl for somewhere to sleep.
“Especially for the World Cup,” wrote a victim of the Hinge hoax, fingering male soccer fans as prime perpetrators.
“I matched with one guy who then sent me a long, meandering voice note saying he was gonna visit NYC for a week but didn’t have a place to stay yet. I just unmatched,” recalled another.
“I live where there is an annual road racing event and it brings people from all around the world,” a separate singleton wrote. “I matched with someone on Hinge about a month before. The first thing he said was, ‘Any chance I can stay at your [house] for the racing?.’ Instantaneous unmatch.”
“When I told a man he couldn’t come over he told me straight up, ‘That’s not what I’m looking for,’” confessed another.
“This is a horror film plot,” groaned an onlooker, lamenting over the devastating state of the dating landscape.
But deceptive dudes trolling for low-cost lodging aren’t solely responsible for the unappealing lay of the land — namely in New York City, where finding love online can come at a high price.
Ladies are also guilty of misusing matchmaking platforms for free manpower rather than the man of their dreams.
Storm Halestrap, 24, based in Brooklyn, previously told The Post that using Hinge to hook unwitting handymen is a win-win for her as well as the dates she hoodwinks into building her furniture.
“I feel like guys need a little job or mission, and then they feel so happy,” said Halestrap of the romance scam known as the “Bob the Builder” trend. “They’re like a golden retriever [dog] — they accomplished something and are happy to help.”
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