From dating apps spreading the paradox of choice onto young daters to social media stunting the social skills of generations to come, modern relationships are comically complicated.
As a result, daters trying to navigate what seems like a minefield of one bad experience after another are turning to social media to share their past experiences and dating deal-breakers with the new “date cancelled” trend.
The meme is simple: Users follow a template-like structure, posting “date cancelled” followed by their personal icks and irks collected from past relationships.
While the format has expanded to various social media platforms, most of the users engaging with the trend remain on Threads, taking advantage of the Meta platform’s “invisible ink” feature.
Some were more innocent and comical than others, like one user who shared on Threads: “Date cancelled. She couldn’t miss Grey’s Anatomy. (This happened to me with two different women.)”
Another added: “Date cancelled. I said May the fourth be with you. He said he wasn’t Catholic.”
Others took the meme to jokingly share their highly specific interests.
