--- title: Woman Successfully Pranks Lots of Men With Group Tinder Date description: A woman in New York convinced dozens of men to meet for a Tinder date — at the same time — and then had them compete against one another. canonical: https://time.com/5371870/tinder-group-date/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-08-20T17:10:49.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:54:24.214Z og:title: Many Men Showed Up for One Woman's Massive Tinder Audition og:description: One woman convinced dozens of guys to meet up for a date — at the same time og:url: https://time.com/5371870/tinder-group-date/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blteb54ded2d0bed376/6989381b7cdbac0b24d5db2d/tinder-phone-prank.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: Tinder Co-Founders Sue Former Parent Company For $2 Billion og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Many Men Showed Up for One Woman's Massive Tinder Audition twitter:description: One woman convinced dozens of guys to meet up for a date — at the same time twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blteb54ded2d0bed376/6989381b7cdbac0b24d5db2d/tinder-phone-prank.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Woman Successfully Gets Many Men to Show Up for One Massive Tinder Date > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Aug 20, 2018 5:10 PM UTC  MIAMI, FL - AUGUST 14: In this photo illustration, the dating app Tinder is seen on the screen of an iPhone on August 14, 2018 in Miami, Florida. The co-founders of Tinder and eight other former and current executives of the dating app are suing the service's current owners for at least $2 billion. (Photo illustration by Joe Raedle/Getty Images) MIAMI, FL - AUGUST 14: In this photo illustration, the dating app Tinder is seen on the screen of an iPhone on August 14, 2018 in Miami, Florida. The co-founders of Tinder and eight other former and current executives of the dating app are suing the service's current owners for at least $2 billion. (Photo illustration by Joe Raedle/Getty Images) Joe Raedle—Getty Images  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Aug 20, 2018 5:10 PM UTC [Dating is hard](http://time.com/5356756/dating-apps-mental-health/). New Yorkers know this fact [all too well](http://time.com/5335106/lauv-interview/). So perhaps it should come as no surprise that one woman, who goes by Natasha Aponte on social media, [decided to optimize](http://gothamist.com/2018/08/20/dudes%5Fduped%5Fin%5Ftinder%5Fscam.php) for the best possible dating outcome by inviting a giant group of men to a date all at the same time, thanks to Tinder. Reaching out to a number of her Tinder matches, the woman — who describes herself on Instagram as an actress, model and singer as well as a world traveler — asked the men to meet her at [Union Square](http://www.extracrispy.com/food/4366/kelloggs-will-open-a-nyc-cereal-cafe-five-times-bigger-than-its-times-square-pop-up) over the weekend at a specified time, during which they would encounter each other in front of a stage where there was a DJ setup. But when her eager dates arrived, they found they’d been pranked. “There were hundreds of guys waiting for this DJ, but little did I know they were waiting for her as well,” one unlucky-in-love source explained [to _Gothamist_](http://gothamist.com/2018/08/20/dudes%5Fduped%5Fin%5Ftinder%5Fscam.php). A [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrEuvVcp9kk) shows Aponte herself eventually made it to the stage to explain the parameters of the elusive “date” they had been promised. While some of the potential paramours left, others stuck around for her attempts to narrow down the field, which included sprint races and a live Tinder experience in which she separated men by “swiping” left and right, according to videos taken from the scene of the dating crime. (Well, crime to some.) It remains unclear if she managed to find her true love through this Tinder prank, but many of the spurned wannabe lovers have [taken to social media](https://www.reddit.com/r/nyc/comments/98otw9/anyone%5Felse%5Fget%5Fbamboozled%5Fby%5Fnatasha/) to share their sides of the story. > [](https://twitter.com/bvdhai/status/1031327046432108544) > [](https://twitter.com/bvdhai/status/1031327053507977216) > [](https://twitter.com/bvdhai/status/1031328443303124995) > [](https://twitter.com/ChristRobbins/status/1031556337073901571) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5371870/tinder-group-date/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5371870/tinder-group-date/"},"headline":"Woman Successfully Gets Many Men to Show Up for One Massive Tinder Date","datePublished":"2018-08-20T17:10:49.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:54:24.214Z","description":"The Hunger Games met Tinder in Union Square","url":"https://time.com/5371870/tinder-group-date/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Bizarre","Romance"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blteb54ded2d0bed376/6989381b7cdbac0b24d5db2d/tinder-phone-prank.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blteb54ded2d0bed376/6989381b7cdbac0b24d5db2d/tinder-phone-prank.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Tinder Co-Founders Sue Former Parent Company For $2 Billion","caption":"Tinder Co-Founders Sue Former Parent Company For $2 Billion","creditText":"Joe Raedle—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5371870/tinder-group-date/","name":"Woman Successfully Gets Many Men to Show Up for One Massive Tinder Date"}}]}] ```