It is said that nowadays, under the influence of the epidemic, the social circles around the world are becoming more and more online.
Few people can make strange friends in reality, and it is even more difficult to find true love.
So what if you really want to find your other half?
An older brother who lives in London gave the solution - advertising!
Not a marriage column in the newspaper, but a huge billboard standing on the side of the street that everyone can see.
The man lying in front of the purple curtain pointing to "save me from the arranged marriage" is Muhammad Malik, 29 years old.
There's also a link to a website called "Finding a Wife for Malik" on the billboard.
Just log in to this website and you can find that this brother who seems to be joking is really serious.
He describes himself on the website:
I am a 29 year old Muslim male who lives in London and loves good food.
I haven't found a suitable partner yet.
But it's hard to socialize face-to-face now, so I decided to make friends with billboards.
My ideal partner is a Muslim woman in her 20s who can be struggling to improve her life.
I'm open to any race, but since I have a punjabi family with a lot of things to do (South Asian peoples, mostly religious), it's better to stick to your religion.
In short, personality and belief are the most important.
PS: I am an only child, so I need to take care of Mom and Dad. If you can't accept this, you probably don't have to talk about it.
In addition, he said that although he wrote "save him from the arranged marriage", he actually did not object, but just wanted to find it himself first:
"I'm not against arranged marriages. I think arranged marriages are an important traditional part of Islamic culture.
In fact, there are a lot of studies that show the benefits of arranged marriages.
I just wanted to try it myself first. ”
In fact, Malik once had a girlfriend, and even reached the point of talking about marriage, but after the epidemic hit, his work was impacted, and he could only break up first to get busy with work.
When he had a stable job and decided to start looking for a second relationship, the second wave of the epidemic came...
Malik said that he had looked for objects on the Internet, used dating software, and even used the "power of the seven aunts and eight aunts", but never found a girlfriend.
Eventually, at the suggestion of a friend, he persuaded his family and boarded the billboard.
As a result, after the news report, Malik unexpectedly became popular, and hundreds of women really contacted him and expressed their willingness to associate.
In fact, the use of billboards for marriage is nothing special.
Just a few days ago we said that a mother with cancer in the United States wanted to see her daughter get married before she died, so she rented a display screen in Times Square to play her daughter's marriage advertisement.
In December 2021, a 66-year-old grandfather in Texas, USA, also looked for his wife through a billboard.
(Wanted: Good Woman 50-55 years old Chat/Walk/Support Each Other)
And the first little brother Mark (2020) who was first to marry on the billboard said after seeing Malik's advertisement:
"A lot of people have done this since I made billboards, and I'm sure many more will do it."
If Malik finds his wife through the billboard, I'd love to get a wedding invitation..."
However, for reference, Brother Mark said that his act of playing billboards did not help him find a girlfriend.
His current girlfriend didn't meet through billboards either, but was a former friend.
She also told him,
If she didn't know him, she would never have dated him because of that billboard.
"Because the people in the ads look so desperate..."
Well......
I don't know if Malik can find true love, but in short, these people who can get on the billboard are indeed courageous and commendable...