October 02, 2015
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Dennis Reynolds of "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" argues that he's "a five-star man" with a woman he met through the Tinder-inspired dating app "Buncher."
As critics and the public discuss the potential calamities of the upcoming Peeple app, revealed this week as a Yelp-style rating service for human beings, it turns out that our beloved local sitcom "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" predicted something like this would come to pass in an episode earlier this year.
In the Season 10 episode "The Gang Group Dates," Dennis Reynolds gets a bit reckless with a fictional dating app called "Buncher," evidently inspired by Tinder. When Dee exploits the app as a way to give men bad grades in bed, Dennis counters by organizing disastrous group dates in which he attempts to secure five-star ratings en masse.
A YouTube user quickly issued the world another warning it needs about Peeple: a collection of Dennis' deranged rants at the women he meets through "Buncher."
(h/t Uproxx)
Opposition to the app continues to mount. A change.org petition to ban its November launch has already gathered more than 4,300 signatures out of a goal of 5,000.
The petition argues that the app, which won't allow opt-outs once individuals sign-up or add others, is "potentially dangerous to people's personal privacy and opens them up to bullying and harassment." Those who have signed it are calling for Apple and Google to keep it out of their respective app stores.
