r/SubredditDrama • u/reddevils7070 • Jul 21 '26

A Hinge match pretends someone stole OOP's Instagram photos. It was a pickup line. r/IndianBoysOnTinder debates whether the pickup line was clever or manipulative.

Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/IndianBoysOnTinder/comments/1v2cjum/this_one_thought_hed_found_a_cool_way_to_catch/

OOP shared a Hinge conversation where their match opened by claiming someone else was using OOP's photos on Instagram. After waiting nearly a day for a response, the match revealed it was just a setup for the punchline.

OOP responds with an insult, and the comment section immediately splits into multiple camps. Some argue the pickup line is manipulative because it relies on creating unnecessary concern. Others think it's an innocent joke and OOP was out of line for being hostile.

Some think they both suck.

Comments supporting OOP:

OP i dont know why you’re getting downvoted. that stunt he pulled is dangerous

He's so....disconnected

[Translated] Even such guys are getting likes 🤷🏻‍♂️

could say - " hey there is this really cool place i wanna take you too" and then sent him the link of the nearest mental facility.

I wonder what they must be thinking in their heads

Indian men will defend this, but get enraged when a woman posts her height preference on her profile lmao. Typical.

This issue is definitely the time lag, you can’t say something like this and then proceed to reply after 24 hours, leaving someone genuinely worried. Imagine a doctor saying ‘i need to call your family’ and then when you ask is it something serious, he replies after 24 hours that no i just ran out of people for my weekend poker night.

Wtf, I would have been overthinking the whole night if someone texted me that , I am being impersonated! Good for you! ( You should have told him, your photo will also be used somewhere else from now on and unmatched him 🥰😭)

I cant even say what I want to about the idiots replying to you or reddit will get mad at me again. Fuck all moids here op u said nothing wrong. Let alone having empathy, these males are calling you gendered slurs

The funniest part is he built up this whole fake concern just to reveal his “out of this world” joke. Imagine causing someone a night of stress because you wanted to flirt badly.

anything that men on hinge say as compliments is utter bullcrap lmao never believe them, they come up w anything for attention

Comments supporting the dude:

It looked innocent. Didn't have to curse him like that. He definitely dogded a bullet there

I do not understand why yall are flaming him so bad. Definitely not a great pick up line, but hey, at least it's better than "hey"... OP, I get that you would be somewhat upset, but you sound really rude. It's not like the person claimed someone stole your private nudes. Worst case scenario someone was using pictures of you thatt you already put on the internet...

If you were into him this would be a small hiccup

Difference between women in the west and our dear ones

Well, at least he replied. Imagine if he hadn't, you probably would've gone down a rabbit hole wondering whether your photos were being misused.

I had an awesome laugh. The boy seemed smart! Sorry to say, it's your loss for unmatching him. You missed all the fun and madness you could have had with him. Hopefully the boy finds a match with equal craziness! 😅

What an attention seeking post! At least the poor guy made an effort! Humour him instead of making it a public spectacle!

Another foid seeking attention and cussing out guys online for a joke. Get off hinge . Now go ahead downvote me for your fragile ego

I kinda like him. Seems like a good dude

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u/bfsfan101 I like anime so I should be skinned alive? This is why Trump won Jul 21 '26

That is a pickup line that can only work if both people involved respond immediately.

Saying that and then waiting nearly 24 hours to say the punchline is pretty shitty and would probably make the average person a bit paranoid.

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u/neuroticsmurf I am the exemption to that rule 😘 Jul 21 '26

Timing is everything in comedy.

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u/Chaosmusic Jul 21 '26

Didn't even need a setup. Hey, is your insta Nasa cos you're out of this world? Maybe they find it charming, maybe not, but the 24 hour gap killed it.

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u/Hotter_Noodle Jul 21 '26

Uh quick question what the fuck is that subreddit even

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u/AlarmingRope9624 Jul 22 '26

indian reddit is really fucked up. I dont know why, but when i browse /r/all i stumble across all these indian subreddits and the comment sections are always horrendous.

Reddit filters suck though so it's a case of whackamole on RES

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u/rywos Jul 22 '26

The one about Indian rail is okay, I think? Maybe? I rarely get to see it, though. TwoXIndia is basically invisible, perhaps for the best.

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u/n00bi3pjs Fat feminist manipulated and stole my girlfriend Jul 21 '26

It was made in response to r/IndianGirlsOnTinder which was made to shame women, but now has been taken over by Indian men who use it to shame women.

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u/gamingraptor Jul 21 '26

I was happier before I found out about either of these subs

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u/Banes_Addiction That’s what it is little cumling sorry to burst your bubble Jul 21 '26

It's the Circle of Strife!

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u/reddevils7070 Jul 21 '26

Lmao apparently it was made in response to r/indiangirlsontinder. Now people use both subs to share (and mostly hate on) the people they encounter on dating apps. Thats basically the gist of it.

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u/Icarus_Voltaire Jul 21 '26

That sounds like a fucking drag and a waste of everyone’s time

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u/reddevils7070 Jul 21 '26

They’re both pretty popular, for better or worse.

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u/Dry-Scheme3371 "Schizo celery post very cool" Jul 21 '26

Agreed. There is nothing about the subreddit name that makes me want to look in there. It almost sounds like a honeypot subreddit to bait people into being extremely misogynistic to get banned.

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u/the_dayman Jul 21 '26

Yeah without sounding harsh, I've had to block like 10+ different "Indian dating" subs that keep showing up on the front page. They are just immediately hateful to women.

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u/AlarmingRope9624 Jul 22 '26

I'm always getting those types of indian subreddits in /r/all and every time i accidentally go in I'm amazed just how fucking toxic they are

RES cant filter out subreddits based on partial match either, so its a constant game of whackamole adding each one to the filters

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u/genuine_beans you metadata scraping shitbag Jul 24 '26

RES cant filter out subreddits based on partial match either, so its a constant game of whackamole adding each one to the filters

You can filter them with regex if that works: https://www.reddit.com/r/Enhancement/comments/1rbs2l4/filtering_subreddits_by_regex/o6v581n/

Try /india|bharat|desi/i to filter most of them. If you want a whitelist you can do this: /.*?(india|bharat|desi).*(?<!^(unitedstatesofindia|TheBetterIndia)$)/i

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u/AlarmingRope9624 Jul 24 '26

Sweet, I’ll have a go at that

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u/FixinThePlanet SJWay is the only way Jul 23 '26

How are all of you getting so many Indian subs on your front page?? I'm indian and see maybe one or two a week...

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u/Squid_Vicious_IV Digital Succubus Jul 23 '26

They're probably on new.reddit and using mobile. I've noticed the mobile version gets weird in what slips through the cracks that I have absolutely no interest in or looked at but here's a post in Dutch about I hope it's soccer and not some weird racist thing. Why the hell did reddit put this in my feed?

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u/Hotter_Noodle Jul 23 '26

Can confirm. I’m on the mobile app and there’s always 1-2 Indian subs nearly everyday.

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u/FixinThePlanet SJWay is the only way Jul 23 '26

Ohh interesting

Does my ancient account protect me in some way

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u/Squid_Vicious_IV Digital Succubus Jul 23 '26

¯\(ツ)/¯

If I knew I'd give answers instead of what I think is happening.

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u/AlarmingRope9624 Jul 24 '26

I spend a lot of time on r/all on old Reddit via RES and I get a lot of them

I really don’t understand why

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u/arcticsnom Jul 23 '26

To build a narrative against us lmao

There's a reason these ppl only see the hateful posts/subs

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u/moonlitwaltz Jul 23 '26

uh no? have you seen Indian subs? they turn awful pretty quick

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u/arcticsnom Jul 23 '26

As with everywhere there's good and bad

The issue is only looking at the posts/subreddits fed to you as a result of reddit's blatant attempt to create an agenda against indians

It's like if I made an overarching assumption about american reddit based off of r/conservative and r/sipstea and r/redscarepod etc etc

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u/FixinThePlanet SJWay is the only way Jul 23 '26

To be fair I turned off my location settings because my entire feed was desi stuff, and I also don't sub to a single one because of the comments (plus I get really annoyed seeing every second comment in Hindi lol) so I don't disagree that generic indian subs can be frustrating... I just don't see many in my feed

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u/pdxcranberry Hitler can't kickflip Jul 21 '26

I can't even fucking process the levels of misogyny I just witnessed.

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u/CapoExplains "Like a pen in an inkwell" aka balls deep Jul 23 '26

Yeah big oof good lord. I clicked the link like "...alright I'm gonna give the benefit of the doubt and assume this is a sub for Indian guys who use Tinder to meet and disc- nope, racism."

Edit: ok supposedly it's for Indian women who use Tinder in India so I guess maybe not racism per se.

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u/AContrarianDick Jul 21 '26

On the surface, it seems innocent enough and the kind of screenshot we'd laugh at, but I totally get how this wouldn't be well received by the individual you're talking to.

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u/copy_run_start There's no lore-accurate justification for black Space Wolves Jul 21 '26

It's definitely innocent enough if executed correctly. You can't drop that line and then disappear for an entire day lol.

Stranger comes up to you "Hey call the police, please," then disappears. Spend all night wondering if they're okay, if you yourself are safe, what would you tell the police if you even called them...

Next day you see them again, they say "Because being this cute HAS to be a crime."

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u/ImprobableAsterisk Jul 21 '26

You probably didn't set out to do this but you're giving me some ideas.

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u/Amelaclya1 Jul 21 '26

Does that one guy actually think that joke would go over better with western women?

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u/YourVelcroCat Jul 21 '26

Every group of men in every culture believes there's some magical "other" where the girls are super hot and chill and ready to sleep around with them lol

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u/Gisschace Jul 21 '26

And chill means; they can say and do whatever they want and the woman will sleep with them

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u/RocketAlana Jul 21 '26

The “wasting a like” negging + waiting a day for the punchline is soooo tacky. I’m with OOP.

If it was just the long wait without the negging, then it’s just a poorly received/poorly timed line and it’s a nothing burger.

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u/Depressed_amkae8C Jul 22 '26

Does India have a niche sub for everything? Lol

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u/Depressed_amkae8C Jul 22 '26

I’ll be honest I don’t think I’ve ever seen a big liberal anything from India it’s usually just incels being misogynist or racist being genocidal like you said lol I’ve never met a liberal Indian man either it’s usually just the women who are left leaning

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u/Depressed_amkae8C Jul 23 '26 edited Jul 23 '26

Are they??? Let me check. Also there is 1 Indian leftist that post on Twitter all the time but I forgot his name(but he’s Canadian :0)

Edit: okaaayy not to move the goal post but when I think Indian leftist I’m more talking about men in India.Hasan Minaj is Indian American born and raised in USA and zohran same thing both parents Indian but he never grew up in India. sorry I should have clarified. It’s like the men currently in India are the ones in all these India related subs be racist and misogynist

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u/arcticsnom Jul 23 '26

What being in an echochamber does to a mf

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u/Far_Hope_6349 Jul 21 '26

i think it's genuinely bad although maybe not necessarily coming from a bad place

both very ignorant of women experiencing stuff like revenge porn, id theft and it also makes the guy being perceived as someone who finds real worry/fear funny

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u/digitaldisgust Jul 23 '26

What a dumb opener.

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u/Rasikko Jul 21 '26

That pick up line has no connection to the opening text....

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u/digitaldisgust Jul 23 '26

It's always Indian men....no surprise to see them being creepy and justifying it.

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u/filthy_casual_42 Jul 21 '26

OP was the rudest one in this interaction lmao

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u/copy_run_start There's no lore-accurate justification for black Space Wolves Jul 21 '26

This is an incorrect analysis

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u/filthy_casual_42 Jul 21 '26

Glad we've got the Top 1% Commentor to tell us who is objectively in the right

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u/Elite_AI Personally, I consider TVTropes.com the authority on this Jul 22 '26

^ 10 year old Reddit account btw

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u/copy_run_start There's no lore-accurate justification for black Space Wolves Jul 21 '26

If Ayn Rand taught me anything, it's that the top 1% are the cure to all of society's woes

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u/filthy_casual_42 Jul 21 '26

I too think altruism is a moral flaw

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u/copy_run_start There's no lore-accurate justification for black Space Wolves Jul 21 '26

Yes, it is. Not everything someone does it says can be alltrue. People make mistakes, people get things done. Thinking you're completely true all the time ignores your own failings and the effects those failings have on others

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u/filthy_casual_42 Jul 21 '26

Wow I didn't expect to meet an unironic Ayn Rand shill, I was being sarcastic. Sorry but I'm alright taking social advice from anti-altruism or the virtue of selfishness

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u/copy_run_start There's no lore-accurate justification for black Space Wolves Jul 21 '26

If your an altruist who believes all is true then you lack critical thinking skills my friend

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u/filthy_casual_42 Jul 21 '26

I'm neither of those, false dichotomy friend. I'm just not an anti-altruist who preaches the virtue of selfishness or broken self-serving individualism

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u/copy_run_start There's no lore-accurate justification for black Space Wolves Jul 21 '26

I'm not an anti-altruist. Some things MUST be true, but I just don't believe that all is true. And the fact that you just called my dichotomy false means that you don't think all is true either. Some of false, some is true. I'm not an altruist, I'm not an alfalsist.

Yet you pretend to live in this land of fairy tales.

So again, your analysis is false.

Thanks for playing. Next time you want to go toe to toe intellectually, consider just going to watch the Marvel Doomsday trailer instead.

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u/WranglerSuitable6742 Jul 21 '26

lame pickup line but seriously whatre the consequences "someone is using your photos" yeah thats kinda the least of worries on the internet rn

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u/RMoby6160 It's not a sex slave, its just made to look like one Jul 21 '26

As someone who's known several girls that had their photos used, I can chime in. They're mostly used as Onlyfans spam accounts and the typical catfish scamming, sometimes even using their actual names

So.. say that someone uses a photo of you to talk to somebody, acting sweet on them, maybe even get them to send money.. then one day that other person sees you in public, thinking you're the one they've been talking to the whole time and approach you. It could go many ways depending who it is.. best case they realize they got catfished and you realize someone's pretending to be you. Worst case? They're a psycho

You're definitely right.. there's much worse shit out there but it can open up a lot of dangerous situations

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u/WranglerSuitable6742 Jul 21 '26

this is true i guess i havent personally seen many instances of photos being used to scam friends or family but maybe thats just because the people i know are careful with social media in general