What is the Penny Method? \u201cPsychotic\u201d dating technique explained as it goes viral erikatham\/TikTokA new dating tactic has been shared on TikTok by lifestyle influencer Erika Tham, who claimed that the dating technique is used to gradually reduce the effort put into a relationship. Feeling unlucky in love? Don\u2019t worry, yet another brutal dating trend has gone viral which will leave you questioning whether you want to be in a relationship ever again. A woman in Toronto claims she was told about this being used by straight men when they\u2019re dating women. Calling it \u201cboy math\u201c, TikTok user erikatham says one of her guy friends told her about \u201cThe Penny Method\u201d. She said her friend explained it\u2019s similar to love-bombing. She said: \u201cImagine a girl is a piggy bank. In order to get her interested, obviously at first you have to be feeding her hundred dollar bills. \u201cBut putting in hundred-dollar bills is a lot of work and you don\u2019t always want to be doing that. \u201cSo eventually you reduce it to 90. Now she\u2019s going to feel the decrease in effort, but it\u2019s only 10 percent so if she tries to bring it up, she\u2019s gonna sound crazy at this point.\u201d Erika said the whole thing then gets \u201csick\u201d as her friend told her the next step is to \u201cbump it back up to 95\u201d. \u201cInstead of feeling like she lost five \u2013 which is how she would feel if you went directly from 100 to 95 \u2013 suddenly she feels like she\u2019s gained five. \u201cBut you are still putting in five percent less effort. Basically, you just keep repeating this cycle and weening her off your effort until you get to the point where you\u2019re giving her pennies and suddenly she\u2019s excited to receive a nickel.\u201d The woman said the whole thing makes her \u2018so afraid\u2019 as she warned ladies to \u201cbe safe out there\u201d. TikTokers call Penny Method \u201cpsychotic\u201d and \u201ccrazy\u201d Users commented on the viral video to call the \u2018Penny Method\u2019 \u2018crazy\u2019 as they said it\u2019s \u2018just psychotic to know and do\u2019. Another corrected it\u2019s not \u2018boy math\u2019 but instead \u2018psychopath math\u2019. One wrote: \u201cWhatever happened to genuinely liking someone and wanting to spend time with them without games or lies?\u201d But others joked that people \u201cdefinitely don\u2019t think this much\u201d as one man wrote: \u201cIt\u2019s cute that y\u2019all think we think.\u201d And some users revealed it\u2019s not just straight men using it, as one wrote: \u201cI\u2019m a victim of the penny method but it was a girl that did it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
What is the Penny Method? \u201cPsychotic\u201d dating technique explained as it goes viral erikatham\/TikTokA new dating tactic has been shared on TikTok by lifestyle influencer Erika Tham, who claimed that the dating technique is used to gradually reduce the effort put into a relationship. Feeling unlucky in love? Don\u2019t worry, yet another brutal dating trend […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}