Man named Campbell thought he was being mocked by dating app match with Soup
The world of online dating can be a brutal place, with some people spending hours attempting to craft the best profile to snag a love connection - agonising over photos and coming up with cheesy one-liners to catch attention.
However, the last thing you'd expect is for the dating sites to play tricks on you like this bewildered bachelor did when an app suggested who his 'most compatible' match was. A Hinge user named Campbell George, who shares his name with the iconic Campbell Soup Company, feared the app was mocking him after he had a notification that told him his top match was a woman named SOUP.
Sharing his ordeal online, people were telling him it was 'meant to be' (Kennedy News/@rodeoman)The 26-year-old from New York, US, says the first notification he spotted was a 'most compatible' suggestion with a woman called 'Soup' which he couldn't resist sharing on twitter. As such many people have since proclaimed that the pair are meant to be together.
In his tweet, Campbell writes: 'What, am I a joke to you?' where it went viral racking up nearly 22,000 likes, comments, and re-tweets and getting the attention of Soup, who had deleted the app.
Hinge notifies users every day with a 'most compatible' and Campbell claims he got a 'kick' out of seeing who his most compatibles were and this one definitely was delicious. The matches are based on everything the app 'knows' about a person from their religious views to whether they want kids, to try to create a perfect pairing for the user.
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Campbell's notification read: 'Most compatible: Campbell & Soup, we think you should meet'.
Making the content writer laugh, and figuring he had nothing to lose, Campbell pulled the trigger and 'liked' Soup's profile, sending the potential match a message. He wrote: "Would you believe it if Hinge recommended us as a match, like are they joking?"
Later that evening Soup messaged back: "Their algorithms most certainly picks up on keywords."
The pair were both amused by the match (Kennedy News/@rodeoman)
Campbell isn't sure the two are meant to be (Kennedy News/@rodeoman)Speaking about the hilarious match, Campbell said: "When I saw the Hinge compatibility, I just got a huge kick out of it. It was clear that their algorithm was a bit too smart for their own good.
"Usually they match people up when they like similar things but a pairing like this was delicious you might say.
"At first I thought it was a joke and then I realised it wasn't. I think it was just an oversight or overcalculation on their part [Hinge]. I reached out mostly for the name.
"She's very cute but we haven't chatted a lot since then so I don't know if there is a spark but we both found it very funny."
Campbell claims one of Soup's friends had seen his tweet and sent it to her, which made her redownload Hinge to reply to his message.
He continued: "She said it was an excuse to reactivate her Hinge account as she hadn't been on it for a while. I'm unsure if we'll meet up. Usually on Hinge most people you match with don't go past the three or four message stage. There's a big pool with a lot of fish.
"I'd be fascinated to see them pull a similar rabbit out the hat as there aren't many words that match as uniquely with Campbell as Soup does. I've never heard of the name Soup before, it's got to be a nickname.
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"I think we matched as a bit of a laugh between us and I don't see if going anywhere really."
And this isn't the first time people have connected his name to the popular soup brand.
Campbell added: "It's the first thing lots of people think of when they hear my name [Campbell Soup] and it's an indignity I've endured for years. In fact I can usually tell how well I'm going to get on with someone if that's the first thing they mention.
"If Campbell Soup is their first point of reference with my name, then I doubt the conversation is going to go much further. Hinge could do better [with their matching]."
Since sharing the post on Twitter, people have been quick to share their thoughts on the pairing.
One Twitter user said: "Your algorithm is both broken and working perfectly."
A second jokes: "Best ship name ever, it's meant to be!"
And a third commented: "This is so good."
Hinge declined to comment.
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