There are many dating apps online, but this one is different. His name is "Tea Dating Advice" (let us call it Tea as it appears on the official website and not the app stores), and he managed to catch the eye in the United States, not because of certain technical specifications or features, but because of his misogyny and hostility towards men. Far from all, you can only use the app if you're a woman, and there are very strict rules to make sure of that!

According to data from SensorTower, which specializes in monitoring the performance of applications, "Tea" has become the most downloaded free application in America, and also ranked first in the "Lifestyle" section of the App Store.

The developers of the app themselves confirmed on Instagram that the number of users has reached more than 4 million, pointing out that nearly a million "users" have joined in the past few days alone. But it seems that their boasting about this has backfired, as a result that caused the data of 72,000 women to be leaked, according to many newspapers and media outlets, such as "CNN" and "The New York Times"!

What is the idea of the Tea app? As mentioned above, the Tea app is only available to women, and its idea is that it allows them to publish anonymously about the men they communicate with or date, within a closed community that does not include any males.

The official app page says that the primary goal of this move is to enable women to date safely. To achieve this goal, the app provides its users with 4 main features—features that exist separately by the way, but the app has combined them into one interface.

The first feature is AI image reverse search, where a man's photos are compared to billions of photos on the internet to see if his image is real, AI-generated, or what.

The second advantage is to search by numbers to find out if a man is secretly married, by matching the phone number with public databases in America, searching for accounts associated with the same number on social media platforms, examining the testimonies of other women who have reported this number, etc.

The idea is that when you enter a man's name or phone number, the app automatically checks public databases as well, especially publicly available criminal records, to see if a man has been convicted of domestic violence, registered for sexual offenses, or has a criminal record in general.

The fourth feature is to expose harassers by examining a list known as "Registered Sex Offenders," a well-known list published by local authorities in the United States.

Again, although these services are available via public online tools, Tea offers them in one easy-to-use interface, intended for women only. The app describes itself as having "the largest women's chat room in America," where users share their experiences and tips on dating in complete confidentiality. A man who is found guilty is called a "Red Flag," while reliable men are referred to as a "Green Flag."