This Woman Is Illustrating The Awkward Pickup Lines She Receives Online
Project "OK_Cucumber" by Emmie Tsumura
Like most women with online dating profiles, Emmie Tsumura has received plenty of creepy, inappropriate messages.
Tsumura has chronicled the very best (and by best, we mostly mean worst) pickup lines she’s received while dating online in a project called OK_Cucumber.
While most of the drawings highlight the obnoxious and overly aggressive (”Hello what kind of sex do you like”), others illustrate just how vulnerable, earnest and awkward we can be when looking for love online. Sure, there’s a lot of shirtless, hairy guys asking about S&M on dating sites, but sometimes, you’ll come across a dude who just wants someone to watch “Star Wars” with.
At first, the 30-something Toronto-based illustrator would laugh and screenshot the messages for her friends to see. But one day, after receiving a particularly bad one, she sent an illustrated version of the exchange to her friend instead.
Check out the Pick line illustrated in various drawings: