36 Vintage Fine Art Memes That Perfectly Capture the Pain of Poorly Phrased Pickup Lines

If there's one thing any serial dater knows - it's the pain of poorly phrased pickup lines. It's like, cmon, this was your one and only chance and this is all you've got? Either it's something awkward, inappropriate, or straight-out dumb - there's nothing we hate more than a dude who puts 0 effort into the first phrase.

Don't get us wrong, it doesn't have to be anything crazy, a simple 'hey' will do just fine. But oftentimes, people like to take things to the next level, and by next level we obviously mean CRINGE!

Are you a magician? Because when I look at you, everyone else disappears.

Are you from Tennessee? Because you're the only one I see.

Or, the classic, did it hurt when you fell from heaven???

Yeah, yeah, we've all been there - and we've all heard that. So we thought why not commemorate this communal experience with a big ol' batch of witty fine art memes to illustrate that bad dating is timeless?

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