Hoping to find love before the imminent collapse of humanity, 54-year-old New Yorker Jenny signed up for Awake Dating—a conspiracy theory dating site—after a string of bad dates. “I met one guy on Tinder,” she tells me, “but ended up helping him realize he might be gay.”
“I really do want to meet my soulmate and—you may think this is crazy—but I think I need to meditate on it,” she adds. “I need to take this desire into a more spiritual realm. Then it might happen and hopefully we can live out the next ten years before the global extinction together.”
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Awake Dating caters exclusively to conspiracy theory-loving singletons, but don’t call them that. Most prefer to describe themselves as “truthers” or the “awake” because of the negative connotation around tinfoil-hatted conspiracy theorists in popular culture.
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