Ali starts his wife quest, making progress towards finding a wife (2021)
project history · status: running · last event: milestone (2021-12-24) · owner: Ali
Parts: Ali promises a video on dating apps (2021)
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-01-06 | launched | Item two on Ali's 2021 bucket list is making progress towards finding a wife, his "wife quest", because, as everyone says, relationships are the most important area of life. | My PRODUCTIVE Bucket List (2021) 00:06:32 |
| 2021-01-06 | milestone | As the first action of his wife quest, Ali has already time-blocked the coming Sunday morning (10 January 2021) to go on a date, in theory. | My PRODUCTIVE Bucket List (2021) 00:08:42 |
| 2021-01-20 | milestone | Before filming, Ali changes into a blue shirt and jeans, trying to dress less like a teenager and more like a man in his twenties, in pursuit of his 2021 goal of finding a wife. | A RIDICULOUSLY Productive Day in my Life 00:03:33 |
| 2021-02-04 (happened 2021-02-03) | milestone | On 3 February 2021 Ali went on a Zoom date with someone he met online who watched his videos; if they marry, he says, that too will be down to his blog. | How Writing Online Made me a Millionaire 00:12:09 |
| 2021-02-18 (said on 2021-02-14, implied) | milestone | Asked on a Zoom call by friends from medical school how his quest to find a wife is going, Ali says his chances of marrying in 2021 are like the Pope converting to Islam. (playful) | My INSANELY PRODUCTIVE Valentine's Day 00:03:06 |
| 2021-03-28 | milestone | On the couch Ali sometimes checks his matches on the dating app Hinge, and he shows his profile, which opens with his million-subscriber plaque. | My Favourite iPhone Apps 00:06:40 |
| 2021-07-18 | looked back | Elizabeth explains Ali's marriage inbox: he announced on his channel and every other social platform that he was looking to get married and that anyone interested could email him. | Answering Uncomfortable Questions With My Personal Assistant 00:19:41 |
| 2021-08-08 | milestone | Ali has been on a few dates with a girl he quite likes and is anxious about whether she likes him back. | Dating, Regrets and Boxing - 2 Million Subscriber Q&A 00:25:00 |
| 2021-11-09 | milestone | After taking the quiz in How to Not Die Alone, Ali found he is definitely a maximizer, and sees being too much of one as why he has been struggling with his love life. | This Book Changed my Love Life 00:06:55 |
| 2021-12-24 | milestone | Ali is no longer using dating apps. | How Much Money I Spend as a YouTuber (2021) 00:08:37 |
Dates are upload dates, which set the order. Where the speaker gives a different recording date in the video, it is added as "said on YYYY-MM-DD, implied" (derived from the date said in the video).
What is said about it
11 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2021-01-06 · My PRODUCTIVE Bucket List (2021) — Ali says now is as good a time as any to start taking dating and relationships more seriously. — 00:06:53
- 2021-01-06 · My PRODUCTIVE Bucket List (2021) — recommendation: Ali's habit for his wife quest is committing to at least one date a week, or at least a weekly calendar slot for one, such as Saturday night or Sunday brunch, with no work, meetings or filming allowed. — 00:07:50
- 2021-01-06 · My PRODUCTIVE Bucket List (2021) — Ali: With dating difficult during lockdown, Ali has been toying with the idea of Zoom dates, though he is not sure about them. (hedged) — 00:07:50
- 2021-01-06 · My PRODUCTIVE Bucket List (2021) — Ali has been vaguely wondering about hiring a dating coach for a while; he is not sure how it would help, but even Roger Federer has a tennis coach. (hedged) — 00:08:19
- 2021-01-06 · My PRODUCTIVE Bucket List (2021) — Ali would be two out of ten surprised to make no progress on dating, imagining he will say he is too busy, it is lockdown, or he is only 26 or 27 and can worry about love at 30. (hedged) — 00:08:42
- 2021-01-20 · A RIDICULOUSLY Productive Day in my Life — Ali drives his car Hermione to Anglia Orthodontics, which provided his Invisalign aligners to improve his smile on the way to finding a wife; the orthodontist Dr Francis Scriven shaves some enamel off his teeth, and the treatment is a third of the way through. — 00:04:03
- 2021-03-21 · Relationships, Annoying Habits and More - Q&A with my Housemate — Sheen: Asked who will marry first, Sheen says Ali wants to marry and have children sooner than she does, since he is the one on a wife quest. — 00:10:18
- 2021-07-18 · Answering Uncomfortable Questions With My Personal Assistant — Ali says the marriage email address is still open and people can still apply. (playful) — 00:20:10
- 2021-07-18 · Answering Uncomfortable Questions With My Personal Assistant — Ali says he never said he would respond to people who wrote to the marriage inbox. — 00:20:34
- 2021-07-18 · Answering Uncomfortable Questions With My Personal Assistant — Elizabeth says the marriage inbox set false expectations: Ali did not make clear what would happen, and some women took it very seriously and sent videos of themselves. — 00:20:34
- 2021-07-18 · Answering Uncomfortable Questions With My Personal Assistant — recommendation: Elizabeth does not think social media is the way to find a wife: it is not impossible, but for the collateral damage it causes it is not an efficient way. — 00:22:26