Online Dating’s Latest Innovation

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Haliey Welch on an episode of Talk Tuah

Screenshot via Talk Tuah with Haliey Welch/YouTube

Haliey Welch, a now-embattled young gal who went viral after describing her method to get a male aroused (“Hawk Tuah”), capitalized on her virality first by starting a podcast named Talk Tuah. She quickly became somewhat of an off-brand Alex Cooper, host of the popular podcast Call Her Daddy, though maybe that’s too generous a categorization — Welch’s is a style of “yap” that is completely unburdened by shame or introspection or intellectual pursuit.

But Welch’s biggest impact so far could come from her experimentation in the dating app industry. Welch recently launched an AI-powered dating service, an app called Pookie Tools (“Pookie” is the internet star’s nickname for her own boyfriend). The app is designed to help you find your “forever Pookie” through helpful features such as an AI dating coach (to offer “24/7 dating advice”), a Flirt Meter (to determine “are they flirting?”), a Text Responder (to help “rizz up your texts”), and more.

Haley Strack

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Haley Strack

Haley Strack is a former staff writer at National Review.

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