Rylie McBride had only one fear of going to “Provo’s Most Regigable.”
Unfortunately, the fear was true at 24 years old.
“I remember telling my friend before I started filming: “The worst thing that could happen is that no one will happen, and it will probably be the most devastating thing in the world,” says McBride. “But hopefully it won’t happen.” And I jinxed myself. ”
After the camera stopped rolling, it didn’t go away. Since McBride appeared on the show, which was released on July 18th, her rejection has taken its own online life. The clip has been shown 1.7 million times on Tiktok, 5.4 million times on Instagram and 97.7 million times on X, which prompted a fierce debate.
Much of social media supports McBride and opposes men. Some have argued that they are talking about the bigger issues about modern dating and the obstacles that young people find love.
McBride says he has no malicious intentions about his time on the show and appreciates the kind words he’s got from strangers since he went viral. The main point of how she sees it, is that rejection is part of life and you can’t hold you back.
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“I was honestly very kind to strangers reach out to me, just to the extent it had, and said, “Hey, you’re going to find someone. That’s fine because they’re not standing up.
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“Provo’s Most Eligible” follows a similar setup to Netflix’s “Love Is Blind.” Single men and women, separated by curtains, introduce themselves, decide whether they want to be paired before they see each other, and then date from there.
In the first episode, we see a man and a woman alternately introducing themselves. If someone on the other side is interested in matching, they are standing up. If multiple people are standing, others can ask them questions and make decisions.
McBride remembers that when it was time for women to start introducing, no one wanted to go first.
“It really doesn’t show this…but the pause for people who don’t want to happen has become longer. It’s the first person, do you know what I mean?” she says. “I’m just a Goger. That’s my personality. I’m someone who does so much. And I just say, ‘Well, I’ll be just the first person. That’s fine for me.’ In hindsight… I just don’t think going first is the right option. ”
During the episode, McBride gives him a short pitch about himself and talks about his love for skiing, scuba diving and the themed parties. She also shares her excitement about her upcoming trip to Australia and says she wants to date someone who can go on an adventure.
Her introductions elicited “AWW” from women and cricket from men. I smiled and laughed through her introduction.
Many commenters didn’t want to match McBride. “It was sad to see. And no one has heard that he’ll be excited about life for a long time. “Riley dodged a lot of bullets here,” a commenter for Tiktok wrote. “I’m 100% sure that all of them were threatened by how adventurous and perhaps independent she was,” another wrote.
However, McBride elicits her rejection for more simple reasons. She says that most people will want to wait and see who else was in the group of nine women before making a decision. As a result, anyone who went first was detained as a disadvantage.
McBride doesn’t even take the laughs of men into his mind, and believes their reactions have more to do with the nerves that they’ve been filmed than her.
“A lot of people are giving hatred to the people behind you who are laughing,” says McBride. “They then told me about it. They texted me that they weren’t laughing at me, and when I saw it, I didn’t think they were laughing at my reaction.”
Does the rejection of the virus reveal anything about modern dating?
People discussed online when the moment was deeper about what modern dating did as the clip went more viral. Some have argued that it shows hypocrisy of men who have struggled to find women so far, but complain about their struggle to pass on a driven independent woman like McBride.
“The “moment of male loneliness” is given to self,” tech journalist and commentator Taylor Lorenz wrote X: “Some men insist they want to date a ‘valuable’ woman, but when they meet one, they reject her and wonder why they are still single,” another wrote.
McBride doesn’t have grumble against men because he doesn’t want to match her. In her view, she didn’t fit what they were looking for – that’s fine.
“I feel rejection is a part of life,” she says. “Not everyone likes who you are or what you’re doing. That’s fine.”
Since the show, McBride says she is still single. A lot of people are slipping into her DMs, but there are no locals for her. She also started graduate school and didn’t have much time to go on a date.
She urges people to put themselves out of her own way, and hopes that she remembers that it’s always better to take a chance than to think, “What if?”
“I would rather put myself there, rather than try it at all,” McBride said.
