Now Is The Perfect Time To ‘Resurrect’ Your Old Tinder Matches
Trying to hook up or date while under lockdown has its share of roadblocks, and for single people dating apps have never been more necessary.
Last night, I was swiping Tinder and feeling unenthused by my options, when a sudden thought struck me: I have literally hundreds of matches already that I’ve forgotten about, either matches I have never even engaged with or matches where the conversation dropped off long ago.
What if instead of swiping new people, we all spent our time reaching out to old matches during lockdown?
I’ve been off and on Tinder for the last six years — depending on my relationship status — so I have A LOT of matches (at last glance I have over 300). Aside from the few I had convos with that led to an actual date, that’s still hundreds of people who I found interesting enough to right-swipe, but we never got a chance to connect —often just because life got in the way, or someone forgot to reply.
Well, currently we all have more time on our hands than ever, so now is the perfect time to breathe new life into Tinder matches from the past.
It’s time for a resurrection.
Unlike other modern dating lingo like getting ‘ghosted’ (someone you’re seeing just disappears without an explanation) or being ‘zombied’ (the ghost coming back), a resurrection is simply about bringing back old matches from the dead that you may have never spoken to, or if you did, it didn’t go further than exchanging surface-level pleasantries.
Resurrecting is going through matches from months or even years ago — finding people you may have overlooked or simply forgotten about — and giving them a second life, by messaging them out of the blue.
It turns out that I’m not the first to use the term resurrecting as a description for reviving old Tinder matches, in fact it’s been kicked around earlier this year on Twitter.
What’s up with these old tinder matches resurrecting themselves after 2 years?
Is this what we’re doing in 2020?
My freakin profile is hidden RN and these dudes NOW start to hit me up.
Doin me a confuse.
— Cнɛℓƨɛʏ (@chels_bells11) January 30, 2020
why are random tinder men in my snapchat friend list resurrecting themselves from 1972 to send me a snap saying “happy birthday sexy x”
— jade 💞 (@marmajade1) April 5, 2020
Is 2020 the year of the Tinder resurrection?
Just think of all the potential suitors you’ve missed, just because you rarely recall old matches, or you’re too lazy to scroll through a long archive of profiles — profiles of people that were chosen because you clearly saw something in them to begin with.
I decided to celebrate this new era of online dating, by finding a match from March 2019 and spreading the good word:
I can’t believe I didn’t even get a reply?! This resurrecting business is not for the faint-hearted. But that won’t stop me, I’m going to spend the rest of lockdown as restrictions ease diving deep into my old matches and reaching out to anyone who piques my interest. The worst-case scenario is I get ignored or they unmatch, and since in my mind they were already dead to begin with, then it’s really no great loss.
Siri play ‘Bring Me To Life.’