Woolworths Dude Is Close To Meeting Up With Stranger He Snapped; Should We Be Concerned?

Uh oh.

Once upon a time, in the ancient pre-internet age, there was such a thing as “Missed Connections”, in which hopeless romantics could post newspaper announcements in the hopes of finding a stranger with whom they had shared a tender moment.

The equivalent today, apparently, is to take photos of strangers without their knowledge, posting the pics online, and asking punters to identify them publicly.

It is this dystopian hellscape where the #HopeForBrok story takes place.

This week, some factions of the web became enchanted by the campaign of Blake Mitchell Nichols, who posted a plea on Facebook for friends to identify a young woman who’d been surreptitiously snapped in a Woolworths by his buddy, Brok Nielsen.

Even Woolworths and some news outlets jumped on the #HopeForBrok bandwagon, hoping to reunite Nielsen with his true love – a true love he’d never even spoken with.

It was all very upsetting and sets a bad standard for produce-adjacent courtship. Thankfully, many on Twitter and Facebook watching on, aghast, called out the #HopeForBrok campaign for its creepiness. (Conducting a Twitter search for "Woolworths" and "Stalker" results in plentiful evidence.)

Nonetheless, Nicholls has posted an update to Facebook saying a friend of the woman in question has met with Brok to ensure he isn’t actually skeezy. He was apparently given the all-clear.

If the two of them are indeed good people and they make a love connection, we wish them all the best. But everyone else in Australia, going about your grocery shopping, please don’t do as Brok does.

Photo: Facebook.