Jun 26, 2016·4 min read

On the gay hook-up app Grindr guys like to use emojis in their profile headers to let you quickly know what they’re into when you’re scanning through profiles. There are a bunch of emojis with meanings that range from sexy acts to body parts and as you can imagine it’s sometimes hard to keep up.

Fortunately I’m here explain what the most popular emojis mean so the next time a faceless torso profile let’s you know you have a “cute pic” you can just look at the emoji in his header to see what his deal is. Although, I’m still not sure how he can see your profile picture when he has no face. Maybe that’s why he is also “looking for head?”

When you see a peach emoji he is subtlety letting you know that he has a real and functioning butt. This is always a good thing to clarify because otherwise there is a possibility that he may turn out to be a butt-less ken doll and everyone knows dates with ken dolls never work because they are terrible conversationists.

Googly eyes means he is “looking”. Although I don’t really know what he is looking for. He should probably just check the lost and found or hire a private eye.

This is exactly what you think it means, he is really into eggplant-parms. I suggest taking him to an authentic Italian restaurant like the Olive Garden. Unlimited soup, salad, and breadsticks?! He will be molto impressed. After, you might even get a special bread stick in bed. HAY YO!

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Ignore this. He is mainly letting the Domino’s Grindr profile know that he wants to order a pizza.

The wind blowing face emoji is his way of letting you know that he really likes the 3 little pigs as a bed time story. So if you are planning to stay the night, bring a copy to lull him to sleep. Also make sure it has pictures. A picture book will make you seem fun and artistic. After one 3rd grade librarian style read, he’ll totally be blowing your house down.

Wow Delicious! You may see this followed but the question “Eat Cake?” To which you might obviously reply “YASSSS”. What kind of question is that anyway? Who doesn’t like cake?! I hope it’s cheesecake.

The water drops emoji is a wild card so be very alert when you see it followed by the text “need to be sucked”. When you see these two things together it means he was probably bitten my a very venomous snake and needs the poison sucked out immediately. Thank God you caught his plea for help while you were on grindr during your friend’s one-man show. You’re a saint.

Get ready to dim the lights and have some fun in the dark! This guy is into shadow puppets, especially shadow puppet swans. When you two combine forces you’ll make a total of four swans and then you can have them all make out. Foursome anyone?!

The maple leaf emoji is him expressing his love for the fall season. Real talk: it’s probably his favorite season. He is definitely going to want a fall wedding which is so cliche. I want mine to be in a barn like Britana and Blurt’s joint wedding on glee. Wait, what am I doing on Grindr? I need to be on Farmers Only.

I hope you are all caught up on The Muppets because this guy is a huge Miss Piggy fan. Expect her to be the main conversation topic on your date/hook-up. Why shouldn’t she be? Miss Piggy is a QUEEN. He might also like the 3 little pigs as a bed time story.

Up until now dating apps, not to be confused with online dating websites, have had a male heavy demographic—that is, until Tinder came along. Tinder is the latest in a slew of location based hook-up partner finding apps that use GPS to locate future sex-mates. It's like Grindr for straight people. But, it's different than Blendr, the other 'Grindr for straight people,' and the dozens of others of dating apps out there in one critical aspect: women are actually using it. Tinder's founders bragged to us about the number of female users when it launched last October, and though they didn't have fresh numbers, the app has received a lot of vocal approval from women online, including female New York Times tech writer Jenna Wortham, who says 'there’s something about Tinder’s simple, flirty interface that is undeniably fun.' This acceptance might have something to do with the fact that unlike every other hook-up app out there, which were birthed by men, as Ann Friedman notes in The New Yorker, one of its four founders, Whitney Wolfe, is a woman.

So far hook-up apps haven't catered to women because they lack certain protections that the XX-demographic likes when meeting potential sexual partners, argues Friedman: 'women want authenticity, privacy, a more controlled environment, and a quick path to a safe, easy offline meeting.' Perhaps because of its single female voice, Tinder offers a lot of those things mostly by way of Facebook. The app syncs up with the social network in a 'cleverly discreet' way, as Wortham puts it. It uses all the data and information people put into the social network, without broadcasting anything to the rest of the social network. With that, the app 'successfully manages to decrease the creepiness of communicating with strangers ten-fold,' write two women on NYU Local. Here's how:

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Privacy: The app accesses all of your Facebook information, something that is 'typically a turnoff for people who don’t want to accidentally see the profiles of their colleagues or worry about embarrassing notifications popping up on their Timeline,' as Wortham explains But, in exchange for that, it promises not to shamelessly promote itself on your timeline.

A More Controlled Environment: The app only lets people who have mutually liked each other (based mostly on their photo) message each other. Meaning: 'No more OkCupid troll sending you message after message promising dick pics if you give him your phone number,' as NYU Local's Caroline Hayes and Chelsea Beeler put it. In fact, the photos it chooses to show come up in a more controlled way because of its relationship to Facebook. In addition to location, shared interests, friends, and other Facebook things are what determine who you see.

Safe, Easy, Offline Meeting: Here's the part that Tinder doesn't quite offer. The location aspect of the app ensures the person is close-by, making meeting up easy. As for the safety part, that's a little harder. Again, the mutual Facebook friend thing makes checking out the person's credibility a little easier. Anecdotally, I've had friends tell me they've met up with people on Tinder in groups at bars, at first.

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People are certainly using the app. 1.5 billion profiles have been rated or ranked, according to Wortham, it has seen 20,000 daily downloads since October and has itself a four star rating in the iTunes store. 70 percent of its matches have led to chat conversations on the app. After that, it's unclear where those connections lead. Tinder doesn't follow up after-that. But, would people keep using the app just to chat with strangers close by? Probably not. The act of swiping through potential hook-ups might be addictive enough to keep people interested short term.