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What Is Duolicious And How Does It Work? All About The '4chan Dating App'
In early May, news of so-called "4chan dating app" Duolicious started spreading on TikTok and X, with many users singing up and trying it out. What sets Duolicious apart from other apps, is it safe to use, and why do some call it "femcel dating app"? Find everything there's to know about the dating website in our brief explainer.
What Is Duolicious?
Duolicious is a personality-based dating app and website which matches users together based on their interests, personality and views. The website was launched in July 2023 but only recently gained popularity outside of the 4chan userbase after a TikTok video, with users on other platforms now trying it out.
Is Duolicious A 4chan App?
While Duolicious is not officially affiliated with 4chan in any way, but it was created by a 4chan user with the imageboard's audience in mind.
The website was launched in July 2023 by an anonymous 4chan user who has since taken on the nickname Duodaddy, and it was initially advertised as an "experimental matchmaking algorithm" for users of 4chan's /soc/ ("social") board.
While the website was initially a hobby project, eventually Duodaddy started advertising the site on 4chan, with Duolicious reaching over 5,000 active users by February 2024.
The site remained almost exclusively used by 4chan audience until a mobile version of it was launched in late April 2024. Soon after that, the site was discovered by TikTok user @rapshout1, who made a video about it.
How to Use Duolicious?
To use either the website version of Duolicious) or the Android app), you need to log in with your email and then answer a series of questions that will let the app estimate your personality traits.
Once you've completed the process, the app will suggest matches with users who gave very similar answers to the questions you were asked. The closer your answers, the higher the match percentage will be.
Additionally, the app allows to use search filters, filtering users by gender, orientation, age, height, smoking and drinking habits, etc..
Duolicious does not have a "like" system one might see on Tinder and other apps; instead, users can start a conversation with anyone by messaging them.
Still a little confused? Watch the videos on how Duolicious works below.
Is Duolicious Safe To Use?
While we cannot confirm that Duolicious is 100 percent safe to use, during our research we found no indication that the creator of the app is using collected data in a malicious way. You can read Duolicious' Privacy Policy online.
If you're worried about your anonymity and don't want to use a real email account, the creator of the app suggested signing up with a fake email ending with @example.com. Your one-time-password will be 000000.
Why Is Duolicious Being Called A 'Femcel Dating App'?
Duolicious being called a "femcel" app stems primarily from 4chan's reputation for attracting a certain type of asocial audience that includes incels and femcels. So far, screenshots of Duolicious accounts shared online support the idea that the Duolicious might be popular with aggressively non-normie female audience.
Don't know who femcels are? Learn about the phenomenon in the entry on our site.
For the full history of Duolicious, be sure to check out Know Your Meme's encyclopedia entry for more information.