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#WasteHisTime2016^[1] is a Twitter hashtag used by single women on Twitter to share various tips on honeypotting, or the act of using sex appeal to meet one's end goal, their dates, as well as pick up art techniques like negging and ghosting. Since its emergence in early January 2016, the hashtag has caught on, particularly among women on Black Twitter, while some male users have expressed their disapproval for the malicious nature of the tweets.

Origin

The earliest use of the hashtag can be found on several tweets from January 6th, 2016, when several female users started posting ways to "waste the time" of men. The same day, a thread reporting the hashtag was created by user madness on the sport and hip-hop forum The Coli.^[2]

Spread

In the following days, the emerging hashtag was picked up by several sites, like Vibe^[3] and Distractify.^[4] On January 7th, 2016, Complex ran a video report on the hashtag, which gained nearly 90,000 views in ten days. The next day, Redditor Shemarw1 submitted a post to /r/OutOfTheLoop asking for the hashtag.^[5] On January 10th, YouTuber ALONZO LERONE uploaded a video of him reading to tweets with the hashtag, gaining over 190,000 in a week. A second part of the video was released on January 15th, gaining nearly 100,000 views in less than two days.

#WasteHerTime2016

In countering the original hashtag, several Twitter users decided to make a counter hashtag portraying situations where men trick women or make waste their time.^[6]

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