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Paperclipping Is the Latest Dating Trend That You Need to Know

By now, nearly everyone knows about ghosting — the practice of basically saying “byeeeeeeeee” to someone you may have signaled interest in dating, but without ever actually saying anything to them (how rude!). At least according to at least one love expert, there's an even more annoying trend in dating — paperclipping.

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According to Samantha Rothenberg, artist and creative mind behind the notion of “paperclipping,” (courtesy Clippy, the paperclip in earlier versions of Microsoft Word) is feeling the pain of being harassed by Clippy over and over and over again. In Rothenberg’s cartoons, his faux-cheerful wire smile and huge anime-style eyes at once comforting and creepy, “pop up for no reason at all” and don’t want you to forget they exist.

To hear the illustrator tell it, her own brief dating experience with a particularly flaky fellow served as motivation to bring Clippy back to life in 2019, the iconic character now reincarnated as an emblem for needy yet distant people in today's high-tech dating pool.

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“I dated a guy briefly, though he'd continue to text me randomly weeks and months after it fizzled,” Rothenberg told NBC News. “Sometimes I'd answer with a monosyllabic response, and sometimes I'd just ignore him. He eventually took the hint and I never heard from him again.”

Perhaps even worse than ghosting — and certainly more aggravating — paperclipping relies on the emotional boomerang effect to do maximum damage to one's emotions. Sort of like the older term “emotional vampire,” those who engage in so-called paperclipping do so because of their own damaged selves, their own insecurities, feeding their own sense of validation by tapping others regardless of how that person might feel about the contact.

The bottom line? It might be best to completely avoid people who attempt to dart in and out of your life without paying lip service to your own emotional, physical, and romantic needs. As useless and annoying as Clippy was, those bad boys and girls who now adopt his namesake as Paperclippers could be even more harmful to your mental health and sense of well-being.

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