Three Six Mafia – Data about "6/6/6 dating" (2024)

A tongue-in-cheek post tried to answer one of the internet’s dumbest and most persistent dating myths: the so-called “6/6/6 rule” that says a man needs six figures, six feet of height, and six inches downstairs to be considered dateable. Instead of treating it like serious science, the writer leans all the way into the joke, crunching public data and even inventing a mock “exclusivity score” to measure just how rare these traits really are. And naturally, the community response was where the real fireworks started.

The loudest reaction was pure delight at the absurdity. One commenter hailed the article’s mock-serious finding that an extra inch of height is worth about $25,000 in salary, while an extra inch elsewhere is somehow worth $128,000, which is the kind of fake dating economics that makes the internet feel alive. Another praised the post as “solid reporting” for calmly citing average penis size like this was a government briefing. Meanwhile, one user suggested it deserves an Ig Nobel Prize — basically the award for research that makes you laugh first and think later.

But not everyone just laughed along. One commenter pushed back that the height math falls apart depending on where you live, noting that six feet is basically average in the Netherlands, which turned the whole thing into a mini global standards debate. And because this is the internet, someone also showed up to ask the most chaotic meta-question of all: why a two-year-old article had suddenly clawed its way back to the top. In other words, the stats were funny, but the comment section was the real romance market.