Duolicious / 4chan Dating App

About

Duolicious is a dating app and website on which matches are based on users' personality traits. The site offers users a series of questions about their personality, political alignment and habits, matching users who have similar traits and views. Developed by an anonymous 4chan /soc/ user and initially advertised on the imageboard, the site is sometimes referred to as the 4chan Dating App.

History

On July 21st, 2023, an anonymous 4chan user, later posting as "duodaddy," posted a link to Duolicious^[1] in a /soc/^[2] thread, initially advertising it as an "experimental matchmaking algorithm" for /soc/ users (post shown below).

The project gained initial traction on the /soc/^[3] board, gaining nearly 300 users as of September 17th, 2023, and over 1,000 users as of October 17th, 2023.^[4] In the thread, the developer confirmed that they were the only person working on the project and that it was open-source.^[5]

On January 23rd, 2024, the official Duolicious Discord server for was launched.^[6][7] On April 27th, the Duolicious Dating App launched on mobile for Android.^[8] The app achieved initial popularity outside of 4chan in late April 2024 following a TikTok video about it.

Features

Duolicious is a dating app and website in which matches are based on gathered personality data. Upon joining the app, the user is prompted to answer questions about their personality, views and habits, with the app then matching the user with others based on their answers.^[9]

Users are free to open conversations with others by messaging them.

Highlights

On April 27th, 2024, TikTok^[10] user @rapshout1 posted a video about the app that gained over 377,000 views and 42,700 likes in two weeks (shown below).

On April 28th, TikToker @rapshout1 posted two more TikTok^[11][12] videos reviewing the app.

The videos drew attention to the app outside of 4chan and were followed by more posts about it in the following weeks. Notably, on May 4th, 2024, the X^[13] / Twitter meme account @ShitpostRock made a post about Duolicious that received over 1,200 reposts and 16,000 likes in three days (shown below, left). On May 5th, X^[14] user @DiamondEyesFox made another post, referring to the app as a "femcel dating app," which received over 1,000 reposts and 3,000 likes in two days (shown below, right).

On 4chan and other social media, Duolicious has been often referred to simply as the "4chan dating app."

Traffic

As of February 7th, 2024, Duolicious had over 5,400 active members.^[15] As of May 7th, 2024, the app had over 16,300 active members.^[2]

Various Examples

Search Interest

External References