About

It's a Match! is an exploitable photoshop meme featuring edited screen-captures of match notifications on the dating application Tinder.

Origin

On February 20th, 2014, Redditor justaprettyface posted a picture of a Tinder match screen pairing "Adolf Hitler": with a teenage boy to /r/denmark^[4] (shown below).

Spread

On November 8th, 2014, Instagram user @girlwithnojob posted a Tinder screenshot of a woman matching with "Cheese-Pizza" (shown below, left). Within three years, the post gathered upwards of 13,500 likes. On August 17th, 2015, the @yrbff^[3] Twitter feed posted a photoshopped Tinder screen matching "Me" with a picture of a taco (shown below, right).

On August 30th, the Aeon Targaryen Facebook page posted a match screen featuring Jon Snow and Daenerys Targaryen from Game of Thrones (shown below, left). On September 2nd, 2017, an edited "It's a Match!" screenshot featuring two match sticks was submitted to /r/antimeme^[2] (shown below, right).

Various Examples

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