After a grueling 12 months, it’s time for singles to reflect on another year of swiping, ghosting and situationships — and examine the cold hard facts.
Inspired by Spotify, Uber and even Reddit sending customers their yearly “wrapped” reports — a compilation of data showing their activity on the platforms — a viral TikTok trend has seen users compiling some figures of their own: their 2022 dating statistics.
The hashtag #DatingWrapped has 10 million views on TikTok, with singles — the majority of them women — taking viewers through a visual presentation of their dating highs, lows and woes.
“Dating can sometimes feel very isolating, especially in the age of modern dating [with apps],” Alexandria McLean, 27, told The Post. “People are sometimes afraid to talk about their dating lives because it is so personal and they do not want to feel judged, [so it’s nice to know] we are not alone.”
Her video breaking down the nitty gritty details of her year in dating life went viral since she posted it last week, with more than 1.2 million views.
McLean’s presentation details her total number of first dates (21), then slices and dices the data to produce various charts breaking down how she met them (Bumble versus Hinge); what they did on the date (say, dinner or drinks); how many advanced to a second date (or more); who ultimately ended things; and, sigh, the number of failed loves she cried over (that would be one).
“Sometimes dating almost feels like a second job,” the Toronto-based social media manager said .
“I found that I was also having very strange dating experiences.” she added.
While it may have started out as a joke, McLean was surprised by what she learned from the experience.
For instance, nearly one-third of her meetups were coffee and walking dates.
“I don’t know why I went on so many walking dates. I hate walking dates,” she says in the video. “I don’t know why men think I’m a dog. I’m not.”
She also discovered that if she made it past a second date — then she instantly jumped to seeing the guy five or more times.
“If we get past date No. 2, we’re basically married,” she says jokingly in the video.
For New Yorker Samantha Coria, making the presentation was a therapeutic way to work through some of the dating disasters she experienced in 2022.
“There were a few moments where I was like, ‘God, I can’t believe I put myself through that,’” she told The Post with a laugh. “So it was bittersweet — I think mostly humorous — but also little bit of, ‘Man, I do not want to spend another winter alone [in] New York again.’”
Coria, a 33-year-old social media manager, went on 31 first dates in 2022.
“If you think that’s a lot, there is more,” she deadpans in her presentation. She goes onto explain that that figure doesn’t include the three days she spent being catfished by “someone who pretended to be a Polish influencer.”
When it came to breaking down first date activities, there were clear winners — and losers.
One of her favorites was a meet-up over ice cream. “I liked this one,” she says. “More of that in 2023.”
The scariest was a hike: “I got into a stranger’s car and I wasn’t sure I was going to make it back alive — I did.”
Of Coria’s 31 first dates — only one made it past No. 5.
She ultimate ended 20 of the relationships, including a half-dozen who made her feel the “ick” and another six who “liked me too much.”
“I know that sounds pretentious, but it is what it is,” she says in the video.
The recap, Corria told The Post, helped her “to really understand why things ended with people.”
Still, she’s “not sure” why she broke it off with two of the guys.
So Matt and Evan, if you’re reading this “and want to go on a second date,” Corria notes she is “very much available.”