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OkCupid and Photoroom help daters erase their exes and find new matches for summer
62% of single women want to erase an ex from a photo
As the weather warms, people’s dating lives are heating up. This year, daters on OkCupid have already sent more than 100 million first messages — and almost seven in 10 of people on our app are looking for a long-lasting relationship.
Whether singles are preparing to dive into something casual or more serious, they’re looking through some of their favorite photos to add to their dating profiles — and unfortunately sometimes an ex appears in one of the best shots. So OkCupid is partnering with Photoroom, the world’s most popular AI photo-editor, to enable the hottest new dating trend for summer: ex-terminating, or the act of removing an ex from an otherwise cute pic.
About 6 in 10 (55%) Gen Z daters have photos where they want to erase a former partner. That’s why OkCupid and Photoroom have created a tool that lets singles erase their exes from their best selfies for good.
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To find out daters’ unfiltered views about what photos they want on dating apps, OkCupid added brand-new matching questions, which were answered more than 250,000 times.
Most singles, it turns out, want to paint over unwanted parts of their past: some half of Gen Z (54%) and Millennial (50%) singles say they have a good photo of themselves that needs their ex erased. As for why: 43% say they don’t want to see an ex; 41% want to get over the breakup; and 16%want to use the photo on a dating app profile.
When it comes to their profile pics, the majority of OkCupid daters (58%) prefer an individual photo or selfie, 37% opt for a photo of them doing something they love and only 5% go for photos with family or friends.
When it comes to what photos they want to see from a match on a dating profile, almost 7 in 10 daters (67%) prefer individual photos, 17% want to see you doing a hobby or on vacation, 10% enjoy seeing you with animals, and 6% love photos with family or friends.
It’s time to erase your ex and now it’s easier than ever to move on with the help of Photoroom and OkCupid.
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Got a special someone you’d like to erase from your selfies? To erase an ex from your photo, simply upload your chosen image to Photoroom’s Ex-Terminator, paint over your no-good ex, and Photoroom will do the rest.
Download OkCupid to find a date (that you won’t have to edit out of a photo!) now.
OkCupid and Photoroom help daters erase their exes and find new matches for summer was originally published in OkCupid Dating Blog on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.
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