I won't say the name of the YouTuber for the reason of giving them their due privacy, I feel that it is the most respectful thing I can do considering I already feel bad about posting this online -- I just wanted to share this with an audience who might understand how much of a fumble this feels to me.
Also, the fact that I've only realised this today, I hope, makes this count as a post under TIFU.
So, a few weeks (perhaps a month) ago I was scrolling on Bumble, filtering through potential matches (as one does), and I came across a profile that, seemingly, belonged to a sort-of notable British commentary YouTuber I have seen the videos of, and watch kind of frequently.
Going through his profile, the first thing I noted was that he acknowledged that he was a YouTuber, and had set his profile name as his actual name, not his YouTube alias. The details are sort of fuzzy, mostly because I didn't think much of it at the time. I did take some screenshots, but I think I deleted them for reasons that will become apparent later. I'll go off of what I can remember. There was at least one picture of him presumably 'behind the scenes' of filming one of his YouTube videos -- being a photo of him in front of a green screen, another seemed to be a promotional picture from an advertisement, and I think that there was one of him and his cat.
Assuming that this was someone pretending to be said YouTuber (we're all pretty aware of catfishes and fake profiles on the internet, especially of notable people), and kind of (then naively) hoping that it actually was him, I swiped right on his profile, and we matched! I was kind of surprised seeing that, if this actually was this YouTuber, he was attracted to me -- however, I let the initial adrenaline subside and boiled it down to being a fake account since at the time I was of the impression that he had a girlfriend. I thought this because she would often appear in his videos (but only by voice). I was going to message the account regardless, but lost track of time and our match timer clocked out before I could remember to do so.
When I'd realised what had happened, I didn't feel too bad, but was glad I had the screenshots, so that I could forward them to the YouTuber should I ever feel like telling him that he was being impersonated on Bumble.
Fast forward to today, and I just so happened to find one of his smaller channels where he posts clips/segments of his twitch (?) streams. As I'm watching he clarifies to his audience about his breakup with his girlfriend and how he gave her their (once jointly owned) cats. This shocked me.
Now I genuinely think I matched with him, but fumbled my chance. What's even worse is that I deleted the screenshots of his profile, and I don't even remember doing it so that sucks.
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TL;DR -- Matched with (fumbled!) a YouTuber on Bumble and never messaged him, thinking this was a fake account. Found out today, from one of his smaller channels (where he posts his streams), that he recently broke up with his girlfriend, and the timing matches up.