At least half of single people say they definitely wouldn’t date someone with different politics than theirs right now. Which has led to a whole new type of insanity.
The newest dating term is WOKEFISHING. That's where someone pretends to care about social and progressive issues to get dates on dating apps.
The word of the day is “wokefishing,” coined today by Serena Smith, who defined the practice as “when people masquerade as holding progressive political views to ensnare potential partners,” in an article for Vice.
The name, like “dogfishing” before it, is a play on “catfishing,” one of the OG toxic online dating trends used to describe the practice of pretending to be someone else on the internet.
“Wokefishing is on the rise as app-daters with less-than-progressive political views realize those views may be hurting their romantic potential. But rather than, I don’t know, reflecting on why that might be and considering altering some of those views, these wokefish have decided to simply lie about their politics on the internet instead.”
But wokefish can’t hide forever, and their true colors seem to have a way of inevitably slipping out.