Thin-Slicing the Unintentional Head Chopper-Offers

Here’s the guy in question:

He posted these pics exactly like this on his Hinge profile. His other pics show his face clearly, so he’s not trying to hide his identity. We tossed around a few ideas to explain this in the Facebook group, but the only one that makes sense is that he simply doesn’t know how to upload his pics.

I’m calling this a Block-to-Burn, which might seem harsh, and that’s why it’s in my new “AITA: Burned Haystack Edition” section of this publication.

But hear me out, because I’m not just being mean. I’m applying the analytical tactic called “thin-slicing,” which has been proven highly accurate when properly employed. If you’re not familiar with the term, please read this piece and then come back here . . .

So I’m going to thin-slice this, and I’m going to do it two ways:

Thin slice #1: He’s truly incapable of uploading pics. That’s kinda weird for a man of his age in 2025. He’s not 80 years old. So that alone bothers me because it makes me wonder what else he can’t figure out.

Thin slice #2 (this is the more meaningful one): There are 2 possibilities here; either he uploaded these and never checked to see what they looked like, or he DID check to see what they looked like and realized what he’d done and just decided to leave it.

That’s enough reason for me to not date him. He’s a careless person, and I don’t want to be partnered with a careless person. Think about what that looks like down the road (this is precisely the point of thin-slicing; it allows you to accurately extrapolate a thin slice of experience across space and time to draw larger conclusions).

Anyway, this is what I think it would look like:

Let’s imagine that I end up partnered with this guy and we at some point own a house together and we have to paint the living room. I would tape everything off and paint super carefully and clean up all my drips and wash all my brushes and lay them out to dry, and THIS GUY would slap some paint around in big globs and let it drip all over the place and be like “good enough.”

I don’t want to deal with that because I feel like it would be the case with everything all the time and I’d have to do all the work and be the only adult.

AITA? Please discuss. 😬