Vegan spam presumably, but spam nonetheless. The e-mail began, “people don’t use Hippie Dates for long.” Perhaps because they got lit up and forgot they joined, I don’t know.

It looks like CulturalAppropriationDates.com to me.

To everyone their own thing, I suppose. God only knows what a hippie lifestyle is or looks like in 2020 but the photos don’t really jump out at you. They didn’t even pique my curiosity. Bad jokes, yes. Curiosity not a bit.

I’m trying to keep an open mind. My efforts aren’t exactly having a result. It’s funny though that I feel some degree of guilt making fun of this. After all, it’s none of my business what people want to present themselves as or how. Is it any more ridiculous that the avatar I’ve created for public consumption in The Simulation? Probably not.