Finessing the perfect response on a dating app takes time and patience – and for one woman, extreme creativity.
TikTok user Madeline Salazar has shared her unusual method for sparking conversation with the men she matches with on dating apps – by photoshopping herself into their pictures.
Madeline, from San Diego, California, has shared several videos of her extreme commitment, showing her creating the pictures behind the scenes.
‘I didn’t know what to message my Bumble match, so I sent this,’ she explained.
In one picture, she took a photo of a man on a hike with his arms out before inserting herself on his back as though he was giving her a piggy back.
In the video, she showed the painstaking process, which involved posing multiple times to get the angles right.
Using photoshop, she then inserted herself into the picture he has on his profile.
Madeline then send it to David, the man she matched with, writing ‘could be us,’ and waited for his response.
TikTok user Madeline Salazar has shared her unusual method to sparking conversation with the men she matches with on dating apps – by photoshopping herself in their pictures
Although she didn’t receive a reply, Madeline has heard back from other potential suiters after using the same tactic.
In another video, she photoshopped herself onto a picture of a man riding a bike, also altering his clothing so their outfits matched.
After sending it to him, he replied telling her it turned out ‘better than the original.’
‘We’re gonna have to get matching spandex,’ Madeline cheekily replied.
‘I would have this printed and framed on my bedside table for the first time you came over because we’re matching energy in 2025,’ one man joked in the comments.
‘Honestly I’d question everything and think you were actually there,’ someone else laughed.
‘Girl how aren’t you married at this point already,’ laughed someone else.
Someone else questioned how she was finding the men.
Madeline has shared several videos of her dating plights, showing her behind the scenes making of the pictures
‘How do you even find these good guys pics? Most common are the fish ones,’ one user joked.
Her creative approach may not be a bad idea to narrow down potential dates.
Last year, a woman who claimed to have been on more than 1,000 dates in eight years and still hasn’t found the one.
Since hitting 30, Suzan Mutesi said she has been on more than 1,000 dates and used to go on them whenever she did ‘not feel like cooking.’
Her rendezvous were so common she has produced an automatic rejection email thanking her suitor and letting them know ‘it didn’t work out, but it was nice getting to know you.’
She has admitted she ‘expects the best’ from a partner, claiming one ex even gave her an allowance and ensured she had a private car available so she never had to take public transport.
However she said she has had ‘so many’ disastrous dates, including a Romeo who jumped into a lake during a picnic, another who set his kitchen on fire and one man who invited another woman along expecting a threesome.