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Tinder Height Filter refers to a viral debate surrounding the dating app Tinder testing a "height preference" filter for its users to specify their preferences. The experimental feature was introduced in late May 2025 and sparked a backlash amid concerns that the feature could limit profile visibility for a large percentage of men on the app, as well as igniting a debate over some women on dating apps overly concerning themselves with the height of their matches.

Origin

Various memes and jokes about Tinder introducing a height filter were shared online before the experimental feature was introduced in 2025.

For example, on October 11th, 2023, X^[1] user @soren_iverson posted a humorous mockup of the feature, with their post gaining over 470 reposts and 12,000 likes in two years.

On May 29th, Redditor Extra_Barracudaaaa made a post in the /r/Tinder^[2] subreddit in which they reported that the app has added a height filter, apparently as an experimental feature. The post garnered over 11,000 upvotes in the subreddit in four days (shown below).

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On May 30th, 2025, the X^[3] account @IncelsCo posted a screenshot of the /r/Tinder post from Redditor Extra_Barracudaaaa, garnering over 220,000 views, 280 reposts and 3,500 likes in three days.

Later that day, the X^[4][5] news accounts @AFpost and @Dexerto both tweeted about the test feature. The posts garnered over 49.9 million views and 8.5 million views, respectively, in a similar timeframe.

Starting on May 31st, multiple posts critical of the feature went viral on X. For example, that day, X^[6] user @HarmlessYardDog wrote, "Is there a weight filter for men?" The post (shown below) gained over 8.4 million views, 5,000 reposts and 131,000 likes in three days, with multiple less notable posts making the same argument being shared on X^[7][8] in the following days.

Also on May 31st, 2025, X^[9] user @uncledoomer wrote about a perceived shift in gender relations that occurred circa 2015 and compared the supposed rift between men and women to the war between India and Pakistan. The post (shown below) garnered over 460 reposts and 9,800 likes in three days.

As the viral debate around the feature continued to spark discourse online, other users wrote that a strong preference for tall men exhibited by some women was ungenuine and misguided.

For example, on May 31st, X^[10] user @enemycharlie made a post that received over 32.9 million views, 19,000 reposts and 367,000 likes in three days (shown below).

In early June 2025, numerous media outlets, such as the New York Post^[11] and Vice,^[12] also began reporting on Tinder's new filter and the responses to it.

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