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Student sues matchmaking app for allegedly stealing her likeness for an ad<\/h1>\n
The ad campaign also reportedly geotargeted men in her dormitory.<\/div>\n
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A 19-year-old University of Tennessee freshman is suing the makers of a social matchmaking app after the company allegedly lifted a video from her TikTok<\/a> page and used it \u2014 without her knowledge or consent \u2014 in an advertisement suggesting she was looking for casual sexual encounters. The company then supposedly targeted that ad at men living in her own dormitory.<\/p>\n

Kaelyn Lunglhofer filed the lawsuit<\/a> on April 28 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee against Quantum Communications Development Limited, a British Virgin Islands-based company, and its Chinese affiliates. The defendants own and operate a social media and messaging app called Meete. Per the lawsuit, Meete claims to have 17 million users worldwide<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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According to the complaint<\/a>, Lunglhofer posted a video to her public TikTok account on May 31, 2025 \u2014 the day of her high school graduation \u2014 showing off an orange outfit from her bedroom while music played in the background. Defendants allegedly pulled a 10-second clip from that video and used it as the backdrop for a Meete advertisement that ran on social media platforms like Snapchat.<\/p>\n

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The ad, per the complaint, featured female narration stating, “Are you looking for a friend with benefits? This app shows you women around you who are looking for some fun. You can video chat with them.” Lunglhofer’s face was on screen, and the Meete logo was prominently displayed.<\/p>\n

According to the suit, Meete allegedly used geolocation technology to serve the ad specifically to male users within the Knoxville, Tennessee area. This includes men living on other floors of her on-campus dormitory building. Lunglhofer found out about the ad because one of the male residents in her dorm alerted her to it, she said in an interview with local ABC affiliate, WKRN<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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