Subconsciously? Dude, I have an application process.
I need a picture comparison as an example
I went to a reddit meetup in the early 2010s and…this is gonna sound like bullshit but it’s true…I was shocked at the average attractiveness in the room. Like there were no bombshells but almost everyone was above average. Only one or two that were conventionally unattractive… So I guess no mods were there (badum tsss)
I went to one of the mod meetups they did right before COVID.
There were some attractive mother fuckers there. Also the founder of bread stapled to trees, who was simultaneously one of the oddest and nicest people I’ve ever met.
But yeah, there were a bunch of good looking people. Most of the /r/NFL mod crew were there and all of them were standard jocks. There were enough attractive strangers that it damn near turned into a reddit mod orgy (which is probably why I haven’t heard of another mod meet up with unlimited booze)
I went to one of those and it was a lot of fun. I was surprised at how well some of those folks connected so quickly (groups of them were immediately playing board games and hanging out). I wish I had half the confidence those people have.
Online apps where you can see pictures of people (eg dating sites) sort exactly the same.
I remember when I first met my D&D group in person (we all originally met in TF2) and none of them looked how I imagined them to look based on their voices. lol
Was fun tho; we almost got kicked out the hotel for being too loud which is funny cuz we were literally just playing D&D all night. Imaging the neighbors that complained being like “I didn’t get a wink of sleep last night because these fucking D&D nerds.”
Lol, I’m sure D&D nerds have to be so low on the list of things a hotel worries about showing up.
If you’re a piece of shit, sure.
