Bye Felipe is an Instagram account set up by Alexandra Tweten that shares experiences of abuse on dating platforms.

Bye Felipe began after a friend of Tweten's posting a screenshot of a hostile message from OkCupid on Facebook. Tweten had recently had a similar experience and she decided to compile women's experiences of harassment on dating profiles online, and looking at the stories she says,

"one comes to the conclusion that women can't win if they are not interested in certain men. Under their logic, we are supposed to entertain any man who is interested in conversation or a date just because we exist on a dating site. Which is completely ridiculous."

She started the account with the purposes of

"A) Commiserating with other women (you can't be a woman online and not get creepy messages from men);

B) Letting men know what it's like to be a woman online (it's not all cupcakes and rainbows!); and

C) To expose the problematic entitlement some men feel they need to exert over women in general."

She describes how people ask her what the solution to this sense of entitlement is, and she says she struggles to answer:

"This is just a symptom of a larger problem. Censoring these messages may help in the short term, but the messages featured on Bye Felipe are like an immortalized version of the catcalls and threats women receive on the the street every day, just walking around and existing. Until we change the cultural atmosphere, women will continue to receive these hurtful messages online and in real life."