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 This reminds me of the ‘love is blind’ experiment from OkCupid a decade ago. On Valentines day they turned off all photos and let people match and find potential partners based on text alone. 

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jul/29/okcupid-experiment-human-beings-dating#:~:text=The%20first%20experiment%20Rudder%20describes,responded%20to%2044%25%20more%20often.

Users hated it, use of the app went down, but better relationships came out of it. ;-D