Approaching someone to flirt can be stressful, it takes some social skills, suave and smoothness. This is perhaps why some folks prefer to text. However, this extra “comfort” comes at the cost of the least appealing people shooting their shot.
Some folks share screenshots of the worst, most embarrassing and cringy texts they’ve gotten from men in some misguided attempt at flirting. So get comfortable as you scroll through, upvote the worst examples and be sure to share your own thoughts and experiences in the comments below.
#1 I Thought That Was Your Thumb
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#2 “I Want To Show You A Good Time”
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#3 NGVC: "Not Interested In Me? But I'm A Nice Guy! Must Be Racism"
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Unfortunately, there have been guys making unwanted and, frankly, horrible advances for, probably, much of human history. Over a hundred years ago, in Washington D.C. Alice Reighly formed an “anti-flirt club” to help women avoid the attention of men while out in public, mostly by educating younger women on the strategies unscrupulous men would use at the time.
In short, men would offer women walking somewhere to drive them. A Miss Helen Brown stated in 1923, that "Too many motorists are taking advantage of the precedent established during the war by offering to take young lady pedestrians in their cars.” It would appear that some men will get very creative when it comes to obnoxious flirting.
#4 Dug Up An Old Text I Received In 2021
Got takeout one day and went on public transportation with my bag of food. Already had a bad feeling, I knew I should’ve taken the receipt off. Not even sure what he looks like, but this man stole my number off of the ticket on my bag. This happened years ago, but this subreddit inspired me to find this and post it here.
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#5 BF Doordashed Me Food, Dasher Wanted To Text His # Thinking It Was Me LOL
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#6 Men Like This, You Make Me Sick
just this morning - three separate guys on this app told me they were horny/had wood. completely unprovoked. this was the third guy, and as you can probably tell I was annoyed. it felt good typing that last message. finally deleted the app (which tbh I should've done a while ago, don't know why I didn't) but this was the final straw. men like this are truly disgusting.
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Even more well meaning men tend to misinterpret signals all the time, through a lack of understanding context clues, lack of experience or just good old fashioned delusion. As surprising as this might seem, a woman working in a customer-facing job smiling is probably doing it because she has been told she has to.
#7 From A Guy Who I Briefly Dated For 3 Weeks Nearly A Year Ago
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#8 Landlord Keeps Getting Texts Like This From A Tenant
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#9 My Old Neighbor Who I Considered A Friend Sent Me This Last Week
We have barely talked since he moved out but we used to hang out in his apartment sometimes. Officially creeped out.
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Of course, many of the examples here don’t even have that plausible deniability. A delivery driver texting the number attached to the account that ordered some Door Dash is just ridiculous and gives the entire profession a bad name. Enough women have had bad experiences with this to make it more than just some isolated instances.
#10 Aftermath Of Reporting Him To HR… He’s 20 Years Older Than Me Btw
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#11 Guy Called Me This Morning Asking When I Wanted To Hook Up. I Told Him He Had The Wrong Number. I Got This Text Right After
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#12 His Efforts
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#13 My Ex Texted Me At Work Asking For *pics* Thinking I Was Someone Else, And Now I Pray For Whoever Alice Is
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#14 We’ve Been Divorced For 20yrs
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#15 Men, Do Not Do This. Absolutely Insane
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#16 Saw This Guy For A Month 5 Years Ago. This Is The Past 5 Years Summed Up In 2 Photos
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#17 Ngvc: "Just Trying To Be Nice"
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#18 Sorry If I'm Cheesy Lolol
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#19 Forever Feels Like Only A Few Minutes When I’m With Him
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#20 I Didn’t Give Him My Number, He Got It From My Vacuum Rental Receipt
After this interaction I called the rental place and told them what happened. They called back and apparently he was fired. I hope that taught him to never do this creepy stuff ever again! Also, the rental receipt literally had my address on it. Thankfully this was during a move and the paperwork had my old apartment’s address. Still so creepy to think about.
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#21 Flip
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#22 My Childhood Friend Yall
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#23 NGVC: “Me, I’m A Nice Guy. A Gentle, Intellectual Soul…”
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#24 Got This DM From A Guy Who Kept Dm-Ing Me
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#25 Salesperson Texted Me
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#26 So Many Things To Unpack Here
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#27 NGVC: “Girls Like You Are The Reason Guys Don’t Approach Females As Much These Days”
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#28 Strange Tactic On That Last One
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#29 My Co-Worker Texted Me
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#30 Got Notified That I Had A Dm Request On Insta, Never Noticed These Until Today
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#31 I Texted All Of My Contacts: "Happy New Year!"
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#32 I Never Replied
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#33 My Friend Got This Text From Her Former Co-Worker
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#34 I Haven't Talked To This Man In 6 Years. I Don't Know How He Got My Number
I got a text from this number on valentines day saying "i'm probably the last guy you want to hear from but happy valentines day" and i assumed it was a bot so i deleted it.
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#35 I Am Still Cringing
Some of the most disappointing creepy texts I've received. Was talking to this guy on tinder for several weeks and we were really hitting it off. I genuinely looked forward to talking to him every day. We moved to text messages and this happened. I had to cut communication after this.
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#36 Guy Wants To Dox Me Because I Stopped Talking To Him, Knew Him For An Hour
There's a lot more strange messages, these are the highlights. While I truly think he is a disturbed individual who needs help, trolling is my favorite response.
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#37 NGVC: “Fruit Of My Lions”
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#38 "You Met A Genuine Guy”
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#39 I Don't Think Dude Is Stable
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#40 This Creep In My Zoom Class Tried To Convince Me To Get Pregnant
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#41 I'm A Recovering Anorexic
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#42 I Was Homeless 4 Years Ago, Just Got This Today
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#43 Random Dude I Went To High School With Tries To Hit Me Up On Fb. Also He's Married
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#44 Looking For A Room To Rent As A Young Female. Ad Has Been Up For An Hour
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#45 My Instagram Dm’s
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#46 A Fairly Disturbing Pm
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#47 Update From My Recent Post, I Reported Him As U Guys Suggested He Didn’t Like It
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#48 My First Year Of Uni Is Not Going Well, Wtf Is Wrong With People
my male friend gave this known creep my snap, I’m thinking of cutting him off because wtf? The creep made an alt account too so I can’t prove it was him, what do I do? I’m feeling unsafe.
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#49 Kids These Days
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#50 Just Take A Compliment
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#51 NGVC: “I’m An Awesome Guy You Would Be Lucky To Have Me”
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#52 Nothing Has Ever Turned Me On Less Than This Pile Of Word Vomit
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#53 A Person Respectfully Hit On My GF Through Instagram
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#54 Random Text One Of My Friends Got
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#55 Well That Took A Unexpected Turn
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#56 When I Was Going Through A Bad Break Up I Tried Using A Hotline/Anxiety App With "Professional Listeners". He Then Tried To Hit On Me
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#57 Received This From A Client The Other Day. Pretty Sure He Thought He Had My Employees Personal Cell Number
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#58 This Was A Mature Response
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#59 NGVC: “Maybe A Nice Good Guy Is In There Waiting Talking To Himself For Months” (In Inbox)
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#60 My Friend Sent Me These Screenshots
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#61 Sad Dm Cringe
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#62 Unpredictable Wild Card
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#63 GF Got Texted Today By This Guy
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#64 He’s Trying. Alexa Play, “The Gambler” By Kenny Rodgers
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#65 Do I Know You?
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#66 Damn Oh Uh
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#67 NGVC: “We Tried The Nice Guy Approach That Clearly Didn’t Work”
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#68 NGVC: "I Feel Super Played... i Guess Nice Guys Absolutely Finish Last!"
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#69 “Do You Have Any Idea How Many Women Want To Sleep With Me?”
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#70 NGVC: “A Good Guy With A Good Heart”
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#71 Is It Just Me Or That's Creepy? Met A Guy Online And Iam Still Confused Over Wth That Means Also Who Talks Like That
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#72 2 Years Later Some Random Guy I Met On A Dating App Tried Casually Hitting Me Up? Don’t Do This. He Sent The “Wyd” 15 Minutes After I Didn’t Reply To The Photo
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#73 NGVC: " I Hope One Day Women Stop Leaving Nice Guys Like Me On Seen Or Opened"
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#74 Am I Overeating Or Is He Comparing Me To A Kid
I've asked a few people about this and they all said i was miss interpreting it btw the dude is like 40 something. The last bit got cut off but it says children.
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