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Level Up Your Goblin Game: Profile Tips from an MVG
To make sure everyone has a great experience in the Goblins Universe, every profile is hand-approved by our team and community. Right...

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Bad Social Profiles Are Self-Sabotage
To ensure all Goblins have a good experience, we hand-approve everyone's profiles because we're only as good as the collective Goblins on...

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Step Aside, Fish Pics: Bug Pics Are the New Dating App Turn-Off
Fish pics were famously the most hated type of photo on dating apps, with Tinder even joking about officially banning them . ...

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Potato Chip Theory: Why Dating Is Broken
I spend a lot of time reflecting on my comedically bad dating track record. While it’s provided no shortage of entertaining stories, I...

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Blood Magic, Scheduled Pooping, and Other Reasons I Built a Dating App
My dating track record has always felt supernaturally bad—like, “friends perk up at brunch when they hear I’m back on the apps because...

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Be the profile you wish to see on the apps
Early on in the Goblins journey, I took on the role of profile gatekeeper—partly to avoid surprises (read: d*ck pics) but also as quality...

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Why your dating profile sucks... and how to fix it
Having reviewed hundreds of thousands of dating app profiles over the last decade both personally and professionally, I’ve identified why...

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The (Magic) Anti-Cool Dating Profile
OkCupid appears to be self-destructing and as someone who LOVED the personality-first, questions-heavy profiles, this makes me super,...

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