Bushwick resident Tan Roberts has been using dating apps on and off for about four years. Thanks to her being currently single and looking, she has access to a plentitude of creepy unsolicited messages, which in her case means a lot of great material for OKStupid. What started as a regular open mic night of creepy online dating messages is now is it also a web series.

It all started at The Rookery bar one night when Tan and her friends were jointly lamenting about the dating scene in Bushwick and in NYC in general. “I pulled up the app on my phone and started reading some of the more disturbing, unsolicited messages I had received as if it was poetry,” she told us back in September. The Rookery’s owner Jamie thought it was hysterical and suggested to do a night of open mic of the worst online dating messages.

Needless to say it was a hit. It seemed that everyone in Bushwick has received a horribly disturbing/stupid message on OKCupid, Tinder or Grinder.