I used Tinder as Hillary Clinton and promised to reform people’s night

With the presidential election less that three weeks away I wondered what it would be like to be in Hillary Clinton’s shoes. There was only one way to adequately gauge people’s feelings toward her: Tinder.

Randomly drawing from the collection sexually and romantically desperate or hopeful people in a 20 mile radius made it an easy survey to see who was feeling your girl “Hillz Clinton.”

So began the social experiment to see how well people received her big set of policies.

The creation of your girl ‘Hillz Clinton’

It all started on a Friday evening. First, I set up a “secure” gmail account (fitting I know) in order to create a new Facebook account so I could finally form a running Tinder in no way, shape or form, connected to me.

My Tinder displayed Hillary Clinton in as many forms possible: the dank meme queen, the flirt and the respectable candidate. I wanted to let people know what they were going into. Your girl Hillary Clinton was not about to let anyone make vast assumptions without substantial facts and evidence.

With the help and advice of some friends, “Your Girl Hillz Clinton” was born out of the memes, photos and conscience of the internet and a few college teenagers.

To make this social experiment work I targeted both men and women aged between 18-35 within a 20 mile radius to see what sexy supporters could pick up. I hoped this would target the correct demographic I was looking for.

As we all know Hillary Clinton is doing her best to relate to the youth of America using all forms of social media.

So I hit the ground running, swiping right on as many people possible, the majority of which were male. Once matched I started contacting those interested. As an independent woman Hillary Clinton takes things into her own hands and waits for no man.

I began with a slew of sexually implicit political pickup lines to get things rolling. Besides, the only way to seduce supporters is by saying the words they want to hear.

I got a lot of different responses based solely on people’s candidate preference and political affiliation.

The Hillary supporters

It started off very well, getting matches and chatting up guys. I got a lot of great responses within the first three hours. People who were already Hillary supporters loved it. I attempted to blend political statements with sexual implications to hopefully fuel the flames with my responses. I also wanted to ensure people remembered this was a fake account to mess around with.

Some people played along with the whole thing pretty well by adding their own interpretation.

This entire thing was a learning process since I have never used Tinder nor casually chatted up guys. However, as time passed I found it easier to weave sexual implications into my words.

Those who still #feelthebern

I ran into some trouble when trying to persuade the Bernie Sanders supporters that Hillary Clinton was the woman they needed in their lives. Bernie supporters just believe that Meme Queen Hillary had usurped the original king, a tragic and vicious act to uphold the matriarchy.

Some shared Bernie gifs to express how they felt about Hillary.

In other cases I got some good talks about third party voting and candidacy. Maybe I got too political for a dating app but hey, I have strong convictions for people to think about their actions in politics.

Despite my perception, it was accepted well.

The ones I dare not mention

Then there were the Trump supporters, which were my least favorite. They were either no fun or too angry.

Now I won’t bash all of these people because some of them were just there for a laugh. However, others got heated.

The desperate ones

Then there were those who really wanted something out of this. I flippantly joked the possibility of sexual escapades with Mama Hillz. Maybe me forgetting to add in political jargon in some instances left people wanting more. Some didn’t seem to get I was a fake poser on Tinder for my own kicks and giggles and not a female using Hillary to hit up those who sought fulfillment in both their sex and political lives.

In these cases I had to quickly think of an escape plan: scare them off or shut them down.

Then there was another guy, who began by immediately giving me his number. At first I tried not responding but ended up giving in and responded to the message in hopes that this guy wasn’t actually looking for anything.

However, I was instead given a myriad of uncomfortable gifs. Thanks.

When he asked for a phone number I quickly dropped the number to the democratic political office, a meme and quickly unmatched.

This was all fun and games but I was still surprised at how many people wanted to meet the person behind the account.

After a full Friday evening and entire day Saturday of Tindering it began to get old. I had used about as many pickup lines and sexually implicit politics I could think of and was out of smart comebacks.

Eventually my days as Hillz Clinton came to an end due to my account getting reported, no reason given, except that I violated the terms of service because it wasn’t my personal account. Despite the report, I didn’t shed many tears over my lost matches. I did however miss out on screenshotting some of my personal favorite conversations.

Now that Your Girl Hillz Clinton is retired I can sit back and reflect on why some people get so turned on by the potential next leader of the United States.

Is it just her big set of policies, or perhaps men do love women in power?