Tinder recently launched its GIFs feature, allowing users of the dating app to not have to worry about talking to each other with actual words anymore, instead engaging in oblique interaction via moving images. Suffice to say it’s gone down very well.
So now the app has released a list of the top 20 most popular GIFs that its users are sending out in order to woo one another, also revealing that the use of GIFs such as these typically leads to conversations that between matches that are twice as lengthier, along with the info Tinder using utilizing GIFs are 30% more likely to receive a response.
With that in mind, feel free to mercilessly pummel your Tinder matches with the following 20 GIFs that have proven to be the most popular on the app:
Nothing says “I’m uncompromisingly friendly, almost to a fault” like a GIF of intensely sycophantic talk show host Jimmy Fallon making a tired pun.
Let your potential date know that you’re the kind of person who routinely posts BuzzFeed lists pertaining to “Being a ’90s Kid” with a Saved By The Bell GIF.
“Wanna come back to mine and eat a ton of carbohydrates before you become so overwhelmingly bloated that you begin to fear you might physically explode during sex?”
The girl sending you this wants you to know she’s a purveyor of the three B’s: Beauty, Beyonce fan and Being unable to successfully communicate with another human outside of sending them memes and GIFs.
“I’m utilizing catchphrases from a show that hasn’t been relevant in popular culture since the early 2000’s in order to find someone who will help prevent me from dying alone. This is my lowest point. Kill me.”
If you’re lucky, your relationship with the individual sending you this GIF will blossom into Emma Stone’s career – great at first, shit in the middle, then you’ll both move on to better things. F*** you, The Amazing Spider-Man 2.
A Zooey Deschanel GIF, which means that there’s at least one Damien Rice album in her apartment.
Let her know you’re a bit like a polar bear; cute, strong, and with a penchant for murdering seals.
“I’m the kinda guy who will turn up to your house uninvited and may rifle through your underwear drawer when you’re in the bathroom. Wanna exchange numbers?”
“I like my women how I like my Ryan Gosling movies – pretty, but with no dialogue whatsoever.”
Show her how much of a damn millennial you are by literally refusing to simply type the word “yes,” opting to post a GIF of Amy Schumer saying it instead.
Send her a GIF from Rihanna’s ‘Bitch Better Have My Money’ to subtly inform her that you’re cheap and she’ll have to foot the bill.
A handy way of indicating that your potential suitor should swipe left until their fingers bleed is a reference to anything on the E! network.
This GIF kills two birds with one stone by both letting your Tinder match know that you’re a good time and that you also use alcohol as a coping mechanism.
Because you too could end up like Brangelina, except without the legion of children adopted from third-world countries.
By using this GIF either she’s letting you know that she’s an adult woman who’s into Justin Bieber, which is bad, or you’re letting her know that you’re an adult man who’s into Justin Bieber, which is borderline criminal.
Judging from some of the people you encounter on Tinder, many would definitely count this GIF this as getting to first base.
You’re using GIFs on an online dating app yet they’re of pop culture references from the ’90s. You’re, like, so complex, man.
The perfect GIF for when you’re not content with simply rejecting someone, but you want to make them feel like shit afterwards, too.
For when you’re that uncomfortable with introductions that you get a literal bear to do them for you.
