I had a friend who was really ugly (so bad he couldn’t even lie about to himself), but he was surprisingly charming and charismatic when chatting. He had zero charisma in real life, but through texts when he didn’t have to actually speak to someone he excelled.

He pulled off something similar when we were teenagers, he picked a random good looking guy from Google images and used as his profile pic. He actually managed to get nudes from a few girls, but they all ghosted him when he sent some back.