These terrible Tinder conversations are spot on.
Music producer Luke Holloway turns awkward and shocking exchanges on popular dating apps into songs on Instagram and TikTok.
In his viral video, he mimics two matches, shouting ridiculous and painful Tinder prose while screenshots of the actual meeting flash on the screen.
Holloway, 39, posted his first post, which the man prefaced with “Do you do cocaine?” — Visit his page @lewky___ in late August.
“I chose this conversation because the idea of ’explosive smoke’ came up on that particular person’s list of what they were looking for in a romantic partner, and that was very interesting to me,” he told The Washington Post.
The video has been viewed more than 2 million times, with fans begging him to create more videos, commenting: “Never stop making these.”
“So I just kept making them, and then about a month after posting on Instagram, all of a sudden, I had like 100,000 new followers. It was crazy,” he said.
One of the most cringe-worthy conversations he has ever made to music, viewed more than 4 million times, is based on a conversation in which a woman revealed to a man who texted her that he was hooking up with both her mother and her friends .
“When she provided their names, he responded, ‘Fuck, this is so embarrassing.’ So what are your plans tonight? “
Holloway’s ditty even earned him castings from Adrian Grenier, Christina Milian, Melissa McCarthy and Matt Bomer ), who hopes to invite famous musicians to play the role of Tinder users, such as a dream collaboration with Ariana Grande and Harry Styles.
He finds Tinder conversations from places like Reddit and the entertainment site Bored Panda, while his followers simply fill his inbox with others.
“It was definitely flooded. It took me hours to get it done,” Holloway said. He used Tinder two weeks ago and is now in a relationship.
“It’s frustrating sometimes, I’m not going to lie. All you read is bad dialogue. Some people get really cruel, so I try to find the ones that don’t hit hard.”
Some messages are simply too restrictive.
“If it’s too public, I tend to stay away,” he said.
Holloway looks for dialogue that’s “really weird but not offensive” — like his most popular song, which has 12 million views and begins with a man asking: “If you’re serious, just say potato ”
The one that caused the most controversy was a tune he composed based on a chat, which changed when the woman asked “What do you do?”
“Things like this are exactly why I don’t do dating apps,” the frustrated man replied. “We don’t even know anything about each other, and you already want the most personal details.”
“People in the comments said they didn’t like being asked the question either, which sparked a debate about whether it was a good or bad question,” said Holloway, who grew up in Indiana and now lives in Indiana. in washington d.c.
“I don’t see any of that happening. … To me, work is an impersonal issue.”