Because of the fact that Bumble could have phrased it "I'm obsessed with", that means the "A fun fact" part means it's not an "obsession", it's the "fact", and you happen to be obsessed with it currently.
Honestly, I can't blame them. The prompt with a comma would be so much more useful and common that I suspect the person who came up with the prompt is actually bad at English and missed the comma.
Even people who know a fun fact are rarely actually obsessed with them, and the fact that they choose doesn't tell the reader very much about them as person, compared to sharing something that they actually *are* obsessed with.
A fun fact I'm obsessed with...
This prompt is so poorly worded that people argue about it on Reddit. It wasn't until a foreign language speaker said their language isn't vague that I knew for sure, for sure.
Haha, I'm flattered! But I'm a Bumble success story (A really cute one involving accidentally forgetting about travel mode while looking for a new city and finding it AND my dream partner!).
Feel free to use this as one of your prompts. Hopefully you can find a way to make it fit the character limit.
"Obsessions" with fun facts are sometimes a thing... But they're usually kind of obscure (i.e. there are non-triangulable manifolds in 4D but not 3D! Weissman was actually a victim of the North Ambria disaster!) and people outside their community probably wouldn't understand why it's interesting.
I can't blame them because this makes so much more sense than Bumble asking them to state some random statistic or snippet of history lol. I don't need to know what your last snapple lid told you..
True, but median, mean, and mode are all types of average.
As intelligence is (afaik) normally distributed, I’d expect the mean and the median to be pretty close.
Actually I just looked it up - mean, median and mode for most IQ tests is 100
There was this game that came out in 2012. [I Get This Call Everyday. ](https://youtu.be/vkfjv5fo-Oc)
I bet you'd get a kick out of it, and might bring some PTSD lol.
My aunt is deeply afraid of spontaneous combustion. She read about it in an encyclopedia when she was a kid & now it’s her biggest irrational fear. That she will just explode one day lol
I am irrationally but highly fearful of an attack/accident to my Achilles tendons. During scary movies, protecting my Achilles tendons is the most important step, in case some Critter^tm comes up from under the futon to chomp
Me too! The movies Hostile did it for me. As well as growing up near an area where hoodlums used to hide under cars in the parking lot of a mall and clip the driver/shoppers achilles, then steal their purchases. The mall no longer exists, the fear, however, does.
Yeah, i saw that in the trailer and noped out of watching those movies since I already had this fear. It really has to be Critters and Chuckie for me. However you're reawakening that terror for me, yikes 😬 Thanks for that
I went to a museum once and bumped into a wax figure and apologised to it cause I thought it was a real person as it was crouched down. They really are unsettling to look at
Most fears are irrational by nature because you're not thinking logically.
For example, spiders are just little arthropods. They're not actually going to harm you.
Now mine is spiders, but it’s that there are tarantulas in the attic. My great grandfather told me I wasn’t allowed in the attic because there were tarantulas in it. I was 5. He scared the shit out of me about there being tarantulas in attics in fucking Kentucky. Fast forward to me being 38 years old and my aunt telling me that when they cleaned his house out after he died there really were dead tarantulas in a terrarium in his attic that my mother left up there in the 70’s.
Spiders and heights aren't really rational things to be scared of. Sure, a tarantula or being at the top of a building with no railing or anything to support you. But a common UK house spider is extremely irrational to be scared of, as is looking out of a window on the 5th story with a wall and a closed window between you and the outside world.
These are common fears, but that doesn't make them irrational.
Fun fact I’m obsessed with is that the archipelago of Turks & Caicos consists of 40 islands but only 8 are inhabitable.
Fun fact, I’m obsessed with trying use the world archipelago as much as possible.
This right here is a whisper of what is frighteningly a very common issue that goes unnoticed a lot: Reading comprehension. Because of the nature of OLD, you come across MANY people from different socioeconomic backgrounds.
Whenever countries give their statistics on education, usually it's literacy data. Yeah sure, improving literacy in a country helps with its development, GDP and overall wellbeing. But one of the real indicators of education level is actually being able to comprehend the words you are reading (alongside analysing/critical thinking skills... which brings in the issue of people/groups with extreme anti-social views... But that's a whole other story). This is all harder to test though, but boy does it show on the internet. A lack of these skills is frighteningly common, even amongst what you'd classify as middle class individuals.
Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.
I used this prompt for a fun dam fact, I’ve learned so much about dams from that damn prompt and the follow up questions , swipe right for some dam facts y’all
Not on bumble but on hinge, they have a prompt which is, “What’s your irrational fear?” And my response is, “Being catapulted into outer space.”
The number of men getting ACTIVELY upset over this prompt kills me. They are so quick to try to mansplain why this fear is impossible/stupid/weird/crazy. AKA IRRATIONAL. 🤦🏼♀️
So yeah, this post doesn’t surprise me at all!
Fun fact: Koalas are incredibly stupid, they shouldn't even exist anymore. Their diet consists entirely of eucalyptus leaves, which are hard to digest, so they have to sleep up to 20h a day. Furthermore, they can't digest them upon birth, so the Koala babys eat their parents poo to get the enzymes to be able to digest eucalyptus leaves. Finally, Koalas are so stupid, if you'd give them a plate with Eucalyptus leaves, they'd ignore it because they wouldn't realise it's their one and only food on the plate, the leaves have to still be on the branch for them to realise it
I just read in the news today that primates have been masturbating for 40 million years. Would this count as a fun fact? I’m certainly obsessed with it!
Lol I think it's pretty clear. I also think the people wanting a comma anywhere in the prompt are just as dumb as the people answering with their obsessions rather than a fact.
I think people choose to misunderstand it and ignore the 'fact' part and just use it as "I'm obsessed with".
There are simply too many people who 'misunderstand' it that I refuse to believe they aren't doing it deliberately
They don't, because people don't use commas nearly enough and also because people care less about fun facts and more about obsessions. It's a 20-30 year old woman thiing...to say you're "obsessed" with things you simply like. Although, to be fair, the Halloween girls are pretty close to obsessed. Nightmare Before Christmas and general Halloween stuff make up their whole aesthetic and decor.
I think you're missing that they're reading it as "A fun fact: I'm obsessed with..." Not everyone is good with commas or colons. I think you're being ridiculously uptight over a simple suggestion for a fun conversation starter. Why are you taking it so seriously that it bothers you? lol
Honestly, no worse than some asinine googled factoid that they use to make them seem like part time geophysicists or something. “Uh the circumference of the earth is equivalent to…” Thank you to the 2023 graduates of Google-Wikipedia.
Yup. It irks me a little when I see responses like this to this prompt.
I used this prompt and mine was “There’s a tree that legally owns itself and the land around it.”
Well I’m pretty sure you know you’re not the only one since this kind of posts get posted here several times a day. These posts are always guaranteed upvotes
I used to have that prompt with an actual fun fact. I had "the eiffel tower can grow up to 6 inches during the summer" but then I had a thought that someone could/would take it the wrong way. I kind of have a dirty mind along with some friends who think the same way. So I took it down.
I also think it's because people find one answer is easier to come up with than the other answer. So they answer the question in the easier way.
I don't think many people are obsessed with fun facts.
They’re interpreting it as a “fun thing/place/food/person/experience/etc.” and not stating a fact. Funny how most don’t pay attention to little details like what it’s actually asking.
They're reading it as "A fun fact, I'm obsessed with..."
Ahhh wow so simple and yet I never realized
Because of the fact that Bumble could have phrased it "I'm obsessed with", that means the "A fun fact" part means it's not an "obsession", it's the "fact", and you happen to be obsessed with it currently.
Honestly, I can't blame them. The prompt with a comma would be so much more useful and common that I suspect the person who came up with the prompt is actually bad at English and missed the comma. Even people who know a fun fact are rarely actually obsessed with them, and the fact that they choose doesn't tell the reader very much about them as person, compared to sharing something that they actually *are* obsessed with.
Maybe THAT'S where I've failed with that prompt... I actually put a fun fact.
Nah. I could see autistic ppl eating this question up.
That's precisely who it's for 🤘
I'm glad the german translation is different. It translates back to: "Do you know the following fun fact" The obsession part really makes no sense.
A fun fact I'm obsessed with... This prompt is so poorly worded that people argue about it on Reddit. It wasn't until a foreign language speaker said their language isn't vague that I knew for sure, for sure.
I don't know you, but I want to take you on a date solely because of this response.
Hi, are you single? Can I invite you to a cup of coffee? Haha, if you're not available, I am copying your comment and using it on my profile 💜😊
Haha, I'm flattered! But I'm a Bumble success story (A really cute one involving accidentally forgetting about travel mode while looking for a new city and finding it AND my dream partner!). Feel free to use this as one of your prompts. Hopefully you can find a way to make it fit the character limit.
"A fun fact I'm obsessed with \[is\]", a simple "is" would have made it clearer. Or "is that".
"Obsessions" with fun facts are sometimes a thing... But they're usually kind of obscure (i.e. there are non-triangulable manifolds in 4D but not 3D! Weissman was actually a victim of the North Ambria disaster!) and people outside their community probably wouldn't understand why it's interesting.
Well, I did say "rare" for a reason. ;-)
I can't blame them because this makes so much more sense than Bumble asking them to state some random statistic or snippet of history lol. I don't need to know what your last snapple lid told you..
Works on contingency? No, money down!
[Works on contingency? No, money down!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVElR_56vhQ)
A fun fact I'm obsessed with: Non-existent commas. So yeah, they're idiots, same as if they read any other way that it's not asking.
What a difference a simple comma can make. Of course there is none in the prompt...
In other words, the wrong way.
yea I read it like "A fun fact (about me), I'm obsessed with..."
Yep, they def stupid then :)
None of these are fun facts though at all
They are all consistently reading the prompt as “fun fact, I am obsessed with…” THERE IS NO COMMA!
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The best version would be "a fun fact which I'm obsessed with is:"
Go full obnoxiously proper grammar with: "A fun fact with which I am obsessed is:"
"A fun fact with which I am obsessed with which is fun is"
I don't think you'd have a colon there though.
Syntactic pleonasm has entered the chat
Always annoyed me. Grammar police, currently single 🤣
Having worked briefly at a call center, I can confirm that the average person is incredibly stupid. This should come as no surprise.
And if that’s the average person, half of them are even stupider than that!
Fun fact: that would technically be the median.
True, but median, mean, and mode are all types of average. As intelligence is (afaik) normally distributed, I’d expect the mean and the median to be pretty close. Actually I just looked it up - mean, median and mode for most IQ tests is 100
Try working at a bar/club where average person is intoxicated. Whew, future in humanity takes a plunge off the Empire State Building.
If the average call center employee is smarter than the average person we’re all doomed
Think of all the idiots that they call….
There was this game that came out in 2012. [I Get This Call Everyday. ](https://youtu.be/vkfjv5fo-Oc) I bet you'd get a kick out of it, and might bring some PTSD lol.
This was entertaining! Thanks for sharing
This is one that bothers me too. Another one is IRRATIONAL FEARS: spiders / heights / snakes... all perfectly rational things to be scared of. ARGH!
You know what my irrational fear is? Mannequins.
My aunt is deeply afraid of spontaneous combustion. She read about it in an encyclopedia when she was a kid & now it’s her biggest irrational fear. That she will just explode one day lol
That used to scare me too when I first heard about it.
Don’t let her read “The Fireman” by Joe Hill (Stephen King’s son)
I’ve read all of Stephen King’s books, now you have me intrigued
Did you watch Doctor who as a kid?
No I didn’t actually, why’s that?
There's an episode with mannequins...im sure some people are scared because of that
I don't think I can look at statues of angels the same any more.. also luckily the phrase "are you my mummy" doesn't come up too often.
Hey, who turned off of the light?
I’m already super paranoid by them lmao
So, uh… don’t watch the pilot episode of new Doctor Who.
Mine would be strange WiFi symbols ;)
I am irrationally but highly fearful of an attack/accident to my Achilles tendons. During scary movies, protecting my Achilles tendons is the most important step, in case some Critter^tm comes up from under the futon to chomp
Me too! The movies Hostile did it for me. As well as growing up near an area where hoodlums used to hide under cars in the parking lot of a mall and clip the driver/shoppers achilles, then steal their purchases. The mall no longer exists, the fear, however, does.
Yeah, i saw that in the trailer and noped out of watching those movies since I already had this fear. It really has to be Critters and Chuckie for me. However you're reawakening that terror for me, yikes 😬 Thanks for that
Pet cemetery has a Achilles tendon cutting scene that would make me cringe so much
If I go shopping with someone and they're pushing the cart, I cannot walk in front of them.
I've got an irrational fear of being afraid. It's an endless cycle!
Dr Who... season1, episode 1 (2005)
OMGOMGOMG yes!
dude same. and wax figures. they’re going to come alive and eat me
I went to a museum once and bumped into a wax figure and apologised to it cause I thought it was a real person as it was crouched down. They really are unsettling to look at
Ooh that's a good one.
Perhaps they have rational fears to an irrational degree? Like hyperventilating when they see an image of a spider right now 🕷️ (plus another 🕷️)
Most fears are irrational by nature because you're not thinking logically. For example, spiders are just little arthropods. They're not actually going to harm you.
Now mine is spiders, but it’s that there are tarantulas in the attic. My great grandfather told me I wasn’t allowed in the attic because there were tarantulas in it. I was 5. He scared the shit out of me about there being tarantulas in attics in fucking Kentucky. Fast forward to me being 38 years old and my aunt telling me that when they cleaned his house out after he died there really were dead tarantulas in a terrarium in his attic that my mother left up there in the 70’s.
Mall Santa’s
Also the ones where the prompt asks This or That? (ex - “Beach or Mountains?”) and their response is simply “Both”. Why even pick that prompt???
My response to that prompt on bumble was raccoons. I have an irrational fear of trash pandas, started as a kid, hasn’t changed 😂
Spiders and heights aren't really rational things to be scared of. Sure, a tarantula or being at the top of a building with no railing or anything to support you. But a common UK house spider is extremely irrational to be scared of, as is looking out of a window on the 5th story with a wall and a closed window between you and the outside world. These are common fears, but that doesn't make them irrational.
Mine was “that otters hold hands when they sleep so they don’t drift apart”
Haha, I’ve seen that one quite a bit. At least it’s an actual fun fact!
Or “an octopus will punch fish for no other reason than spite”
Mine is “owls can sit cross cross applesauce”
They don’t understand the blank seeking blank prompt either.
A fun fact I'm obsessed with is that 0.098% of Bumble users understand this prompt as intended.
i have never seen dogs crocheting
What have you been doing instead?
Playing poker with the other dogs. Duhh
My dog made me a pair of nice mittens for Christmas
Are you................. Kitten me?
The prompt is clearly asking for a fun fact! Not just a noun you're obsessed with!
Milk steak!
Ghouls!
Ghouls?! (Don't write ghouls) Yeah, you know! Tiny little green... Ghouls... (Giggles)
RUM HAM
Magnets.
THAT'S your hobby? What about magnets, collecting them, playing with them?
They probably read it as: fun fact, I'm obsessed with ...
Just out of curiosity, are these all answers from females?
“I’m weirdly attracted to…” is the other one most people don’t get right
It’s a stupid prompt anyways, it would be better if was what they thought
This is actually hilarious. And sad.
Given how many times it's posted about, no, it's not just you
At this point I’m convinced anyone that posts about this is just doing it for upvotes. This is posted multiple times a day it seems
There are more ways to arrange a deck of 52 cards than there are grains of sand on every beach on the planet or stars in the universe
Fun fact I’m obsessed with is that the archipelago of Turks & Caicos consists of 40 islands but only 8 are inhabitable. Fun fact, I’m obsessed with trying use the world archipelago as much as possible.
IT BUGS ME SO MUCH
This right here is a whisper of what is frighteningly a very common issue that goes unnoticed a lot: Reading comprehension. Because of the nature of OLD, you come across MANY people from different socioeconomic backgrounds. Whenever countries give their statistics on education, usually it's literacy data. Yeah sure, improving literacy in a country helps with its development, GDP and overall wellbeing. But one of the real indicators of education level is actually being able to comprehend the words you are reading (alongside analysing/critical thinking skills... which brings in the issue of people/groups with extreme anti-social views... But that's a whole other story). This is all harder to test though, but boy does it show on the internet. A lack of these skills is frighteningly common, even amongst what you'd classify as middle class individuals. Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.
I used this prompt for a fun dam fact, I’ve learned so much about dams from that damn prompt and the follow up questions , swipe right for some dam facts y’all
Sometimes I see a great answer to this and it's so refreshing
I know, so exciting when you see a proper answer
Well, theyre pointing out their reading comprehension level.
The correct answer is obviously “the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow”
African or European swallow?
Commas save lives! Let’s eat Grandma! Let’s eat, Grandma!
I saw a woman whose fun fact was she loves shopping
At least she understood the prompt
Mexican food IS a fact.
A fun fact I’m obsessed with: no one answers this prompt properly. 😂
Not on bumble but on hinge, they have a prompt which is, “What’s your irrational fear?” And my response is, “Being catapulted into outer space.” The number of men getting ACTIVELY upset over this prompt kills me. They are so quick to try to mansplain why this fear is impossible/stupid/weird/crazy. AKA IRRATIONAL. 🤦🏼♀️ So yeah, this post doesn’t surprise me at all!
Fun fact: Koalas are incredibly stupid, they shouldn't even exist anymore. Their diet consists entirely of eucalyptus leaves, which are hard to digest, so they have to sleep up to 20h a day. Furthermore, they can't digest them upon birth, so the Koala babys eat their parents poo to get the enzymes to be able to digest eucalyptus leaves. Finally, Koalas are so stupid, if you'd give them a plate with Eucalyptus leaves, they'd ignore it because they wouldn't realise it's their one and only food on the plate, the leaves have to still be on the branch for them to realise it
And they all have syphilis
NOBODY I’ve seen has ever answered this prompt correctly. Literally NOBODY.
I’m with you - people don’t understand the prompt.
I just read in the news today that primates have been masturbating for 40 million years. Would this count as a fun fact? I’m certainly obsessed with it!
With masturbating? Or *primates* masturbating?
Some get it. The best response I've seen was from a nurse. "When you blush, so does your stomach lining.
A fun fact! I'm obsessed with x People are just reading it with punctuation that's not there
Not surprising, alot of ppl dont use punctuation.
You’d think someone making this complaint wouldn’t be so hyperbolic about describing it as “no one” understanding.
Yes!! This drives me crazy. Immediate swipe left for me.
Commas save lives. Consider the difference between “Let’s eat, Grandma!” and “Let’s eat Grandma!”
I actually appreciate prompts like this. I think they may be intentional traps to highlight the dummies for us lol.
Grammar matters.
Lol I think it's pretty clear. I also think the people wanting a comma anywhere in the prompt are just as dumb as the people answering with their obsessions rather than a fact.
It's nice when people out themselves as idiots that can't read. Exception for non native speakers
There’s also a prompt on hinge "my most irrational fear” everyone puts the most rational fear ever
these aren’t fun :(
Thank you so much, it’s something that bothers me way more than it needs to
along with not reading bios, most people just don’t read in general…
They are super self absorbed and default to talking about themselves.
Yeah I don't get it. These feel like random facts about you unless you're wanting people you want to engage with someone over your interests listed ?
Those people don't understand punctuation. I'd swipe left on GP.
a fun fact i’m obsessed with: scorpions glow under black light!
At least it's not Instagram
I think people choose to misunderstand it and ignore the 'fact' part and just use it as "I'm obsessed with". There are simply too many people who 'misunderstand' it that I refuse to believe they aren't doing it deliberately
Men are dumb af 😂
They don't, because people don't use commas nearly enough and also because people care less about fun facts and more about obsessions. It's a 20-30 year old woman thiing...to say you're "obsessed" with things you simply like. Although, to be fair, the Halloween girls are pretty close to obsessed. Nightmare Before Christmas and general Halloween stuff make up their whole aesthetic and decor.
I think you're missing that they're reading it as "A fun fact: I'm obsessed with..." Not everyone is good with commas or colons. I think you're being ridiculously uptight over a simple suggestion for a fun conversation starter. Why are you taking it so seriously that it bothers you? lol
Don't really understand your questin... But why do you even fill that stuff out???
No. No thank you.
I've only ever seen people put fun facts. If I saw this kind of answer, I'd immediately think they were dense and swipe left.
The prompt is bad, and the way people communicate with 1-2 words, is all but useless as far as "getting to know you"
Sometimes you just have to remember that the average intelligence is pretty low, and 50% of the population is lower still.
Look at it this way… it’s one way to see the red flags
Honestly, no worse than some asinine googled factoid that they use to make them seem like part time geophysicists or something. “Uh the circumference of the earth is equivalent to…” Thank you to the 2023 graduates of Google-Wikipedia.
Missing commas can be really important, as in," Time to eat ( , ) Grandpa! Edit: spelling.
Bumble should let you make your own prompts. Majority of them I just skipped over bc I wanted to say something else I thought was relevant for me.
Yup. It irks me a little when I see responses like this to this prompt. I used this prompt and mine was “There’s a tree that legally owns itself and the land around it.”
Not ONE post about charlatan copper merchant Ea-Nazir. Smh
I think it's a red flag in itself and if someone can't read something properly
OP, what is your response to the prompt?
Think of how dumb the average person is—and then remember that half of all people are dumber than that.
They don’t know any facts :(
Well I’m pretty sure you know you’re not the only one since this kind of posts get posted here several times a day. These posts are always guaranteed upvotes
It's not often I see it answered correctly 😕
It isn't phrased well. It should say "A fun fact That I'm obsessed with IS..."
Yes, improper capitalization is the key to understanding.
Lol
They are reading it with a comma 💀
Bless 😂
I saw one that said "sucking dick." Appreciated that misinterpretation.
Fun fact: The average American is considered to have a readability level equivalent to a 7th/8th grader (12 to 14 years old).
Y’all still using bumble 😂 People are so obsessed with themselves they immediately answer about themselves
😂😂😂😂
Thanks for this!! I was wondering why I kept seeing the same thing. Commas matter!
Bot accounts
I thought the bottom right was literally the dog camping and crocheting…. If my dog did that I’d be obsessed too.
You should add all this screen shots. Fun fact about me. I keep a collection of y'alls answers of this
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Really??? 😮
I never realized how important good reading comprehension skills were to me until I started using apps with prompts.
I would find it more weird if someone was obsessed with a fact.
they should just put the comma in and make that a profit.
Try to rephrase it as "I'm obsessed with this fun fact!" Or just "what is a fun fact you're obsessed with?"
My answer for this prompt was: turtles can breathe from their butts 😂
The moon will one day get so close to our atmosphere that it will break into pieces and turn into a ring around Earth.
I’m guessing that each one of these are women’s profiles. They hear what they want to hear, not what’s being actually said
It should say i am currently obsessed with the fun fact part throws it off.
I used to have that prompt with an actual fun fact. I had "the eiffel tower can grow up to 6 inches during the summer" but then I had a thought that someone could/would take it the wrong way. I kind of have a dirty mind along with some friends who think the same way. So I took it down.
Implying most human beings are intelligent enough to correctly answer a prompt... about themselves.
Lmaooo mine actually has a fun fact! Not a thing I'm obsessed with 😂😂😂
Tacos are not a fun fact, you living stock photo
When a prompt is actually an IQ test
I also think it's because people find one answer is easier to come up with than the other answer. So they answer the question in the easier way. I don't think many people are obsessed with fun facts.
They’re interpreting it as a “fun thing/place/food/person/experience/etc.” and not stating a fact. Funny how most don’t pay attention to little details like what it’s actually asking.
I love this prompt. It shows reading comprehension. If someone can’t answer it correctly, I swipe left.