Quarantine Cutie

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About

Quarantine Cutie refers to a viral video in which a New York man asked out a woman who lived across the street from him while they were both practicing social distancing amidst the Coronavirus outbreak.

Origin

On March 22nd, 2020, TikTok user Jeremy Cohen posted a video titled "How to Date A Quarantine Cutie."^[1] In the video, he sees a woman dancing on the roof across the street from him. After waving, he sends over a drone with his phone number attached and the two begin talking. The TikTok has been viewed over 5.4 million times.

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How to date while being quarantined (part 1) ##becreative ##lovestory ##viral ##wholesome ##wishmeluck ##xyzbca ##fyp ##drone ##nyc ##newyorkcity ##MoodBoost
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Over the following week, he posted two more updates, eventually going on a "dinner date" with the woman across the street and going on a walk with her while he was in a plastic bubble. His tweet compiling the whole story,^[2] published March 29th, 2020, gained over 75,000 retweets and 192,000 likes (shown below).

Here is part 1, 2, and 3 of “Quarantine Cutie” all in one tweet pic.twitter.com/L9pnEV4oZM
— Jeremy Cohen (@jerm_cohen) March 29, 2020

Spread

The first two of Cohen's videos sparked media attention. They were covered by TIME^[3] and Mashable.^[4] The videos also gained over 108,000 points in /r/nextfuckinglevel.^[5] The videos also sparked myriad reactions on Twitter, with some finding them ingenious while others found them irritating. User @_chismosa_^[6] tweeted, "This guy sent a girl a drone to slide into her DMs during the pandemic and you still haven’t gotten a text back. Think about it," gaining over 920 retweets and 3,100 likes (shown below, left). User @i_izzzzz^[7] joked, "This was grown in a lab to be the thing I hate most in the world," gaining over 1,000 likes (shown below, right).