About

I'm Dropping Hints That I'm Single refers to a screengrab from Kourtney and Kim Take New York that features two panels of Kim Kardashian. In the top panel, she is saying she's "dropping hints" that she's single, and the bottom shows her outright saying "I'm single."

Origin

In the series premiere of Keeping Up With The Kardashians spinoff Kourtney and Kim Take New York that aired January 23rd, 2011, Kim attempts to enjoy single life, and goes on a date. She explains in an on-camera interview that she is "dropping hints" that she's single to her date. The camera then cuts to her blurting "I'm single" with no subtlety for humorous effect.^[1]

Spread

The screengrab of the scene first appeared on Imgur^[2] on July 1st, 2012, where it's received 11,374 views as of August 12th, 2016. A gifset of the scene began circulating on Tumblr the same year; one post of the gifset by since-deactivated "AFEASTFORHOS-DEACTIVATED2014052"^[3] has acquired 535,796 notes in four years. The image began making the rounds on Twitter in 2014. A post of the screengrab by @thoughtskylie^[4] gained 3,300 retweets and 6,536 likes as of August 12th, 2016. On June 25th, 2016, actress Ariel Winter used the meme on Instagram^[5] to announce she was single.

Exploitable Variation

In August 2016, social media users began turning the image into an exploitable meme where the "I'm single" part of the original image is replaced with other personal information. The Tumblr wholesomemes^[6] created one of the more popular exploitable variations by having the text read "I'm dropping hints that I love my friends." The post gained over 7,000 notes in four days. Other, like Twitter user @gossipgrill,^[7] went in a darker direction (see: below).

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