It's no secret that in addition to serious harassment, smaller forms of casual sexism run rampant on dating sites and online communities. Oh, and IRL, too.

Now, thanks to two clever grad students in New York, anyone who hasn't had the joy of experiencing casual sexism firsthand has the opportunity to do so by engaging with d.Bot: A sleazy chat-bot that learned all of its creepy ways from real, crowd-sourced comments women have received both online and IRL.

D.Bot opens most conversations with, "Aren't you going to say hi?" and goes on to say things like, "You look like you smell good," "What nationality are you?" and "Someone as pretty as you should be more confident." If you ignore it for a few minutes, d.Bot "gets mad" and starts being meaner and employing guilt trips and put-downs -- an experience that will feel disturbingly familiar to many of users.

D.Bot was designed by 29-year-old Joanna Chin and 32-year-old Bryan Collinsworth, who are both graduate students at the New School. Chin explained on her website, "D.BOT is a chatbot that simulates conversing with an unenlightened male...The project is intended to address in a light-hearted, humorous way, the pervasiveness of gender stereotypes and the ease with which disrespectful and patronizing comments find their way into everyday conversation."

"We were particularly interested in how to create a user experience where someone is engaging with a computer that's actually being really annoying and trying to get them to not want to use it, but they still want to interact somehow," Chin told MTV News.

"There's a lot of really interesting work being done right now regarding how online dating is changing the way we look at love and relationships today," Chin continued, "And we were also interested in looking at differences in experience by gender in that context."

"I think we're at this interesting point in social relations right now," Collinsworth told MTV News. "We're seeing protests on college campuses where some people are pointing out that they're facing little, accumulating challenges every day -- micro-aggressions is the term that some people use -- and then other people who are responding, 'What do you mean, this is no big deal, why can't you take a joke?'"

"I think in terms of gender and race issues, we're at a different point now than we were a generation ago when people were overtly racist or sexist," Collinsworth continued. "Now, the challenge is more often getting people who don't think they're racist or sexist to understand when the things they say and do still come across as insensitive, or accumulatively come across in a way that betrays their internal biases that they don't even think about."

When asked how users have responded to the app, Collinsworth said, "For men who generally consider themselves sympathetic, enlightened, post-feminist men, the reaction is often, 'Can it really be this bad for women?' and the response from women who use it is, 'Yes, it really is,' or even to say that if anything, [d.Bot] is in some ways more tame than many of the real interactions they've had."

Chin said she thinks the app has been resonating in part because of its subtlety.

"It's starting a conversation from a point that's a little bit more open," she explained. "It's not right off the bat accusatory or criticizing or in your face...through humor, it actually helps information flow more easily between people who have experienced [these sorts of micro-aggressions] and people who are skeptical about their existence."

The app also invites users to "feed d.Bot" with our own "douchey things that guys have said to you." Chin recently told Mashable that submitting her own examples of things guys have said to her online or in bars has been comforting and that she hopes people will continue to use the bot as a cathartic, humorous outlet for sharing their own troubling encounters (Similar to the joys of collective ranting through @byefelipe and @tindernightmares on Instagram).

"We've been seeing more and more discussion about this topic and about sexual harassment and Tinder and modern dating, so being able to add to that conversation has felt great," Chin told MTV News. Chin also said she plans to continue to explore these themes in her thesis -- a mobile game that will allow users to walk through the various stages of modern dating, from meeting at a party, to flirting, texting and crafting conversations around consent.

Collinsworth told MTV News that the responses to d.Bot have been overwhelmingly positive.

"Taking something that's usually a kind of mundane or annoying aspect of the internet -- " he said, "In this case, chat-bots -- and doing something that's very technologically simple, but culturally critical with it has been really fun."