Dating in the Metaverse
<p>Itwas not the first time on a virtual reality (VR) dating app for a girl who goes by the screen name Twitchin and whose name is Naomi in real life (IRL). About five years earlier, she had met and married a Danish man in VR. But because that relationship had a “very, very messy ending,“ three months after its resolution, Twitchin, 34, a kind of influencer in the VR chat ecosystem who hails from Texas, thought she should join a VR-dating app called <a href="https://www.nevermet.io/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Nevermet</a>. She wanted both to make friends and to lock down her name before anyone misappropriated it. To hear her tell it, she had no romantic aspirations whatsoever.</p>
<p>One day, Twitchin, who identifies as a pink snow leopard in VR (a snow leopard because this animal speaks to her and pink because her mother died of breast cancer) stumbled upon the profile of a red panda that was kind of “cute and dorky.“</p>
<p>“I took a read at his profile and saw nothing that interested me and was about to hit the skip, but then I remembered that I’m not using the app to find a match but friends I can hang out with, so I liked his profile.” That same day, Twitchin got a notification that Ethereal, the cute red panda, liked her back. Twitchin and Ethereal, a 35-year old man called Erick in real life who lives in northwest Washington, started hanging out in VR. They went to virtual cafe worlds, parties, golfing worlds, cinemas, and many, many more places.</p>
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