FlirtCopilot writes ten replies every time someone pastes a message or uploads a chat screenshot. The person then copies one, or none. That copy is a vote: out of ten options, this is the one they were willing to send. Over the last 90 days we counted the votes. This is what 2,240 people chose, and what they skipped.
1. Not one line was copied by five different people
We expected a leaderboard of killer openers. There is none. Across 12,677 copied lines, no single line was copied by five or more different people, and almost every copied line is unique. The replies that get sent are the ones that mention the other person's actual message, bio, photo or joke. The generic line loses to the specific one every time, which is the whole reason a reply written from the real conversation beats a list of pickup lines.
2. The reply people send is one text bubble long
The median copied reply is 86 characters, roughly 15 to 17 words. Half of all copied replies fall between 70 and 106 characters. Only 10% are shorter than 58 characters, and only 10% run past 136. That is one bubble on a phone: long enough to say one specific thing and ask one thing back, short enough to read without scrolling.
| Copied reply length | Characters |
|---|---|
| Shortest 10% | under 58 |
| Lower quarter | 70 |
| Median | 86 |
| Upper quarter | 106 |
| Longest 10% | over 136 |
3. Half of them ask something
49.5% of copied replies contain a question. The pattern that shows up over and over is a specific callback followed by an easy question: notice one thing in their message or profile, react to it, then hand them the next move. Other habits of the copied lines: 57.6% use the word "you", 54.6% use "I", 26.7% contain an emoji, 19.8% an exclamation mark, and only 3.6% an ellipsis. 13.1% open with the other person's name.
4. Openers from a profile get sent more than replies to a message
When someone uploads a screenshot of a profile and asks for an opener, 50.1% of those generations end with a copied line. When they paste a message and ask for a reply, it is 34.4%, and typed context without a screenshot lands at 32.7%. Openers written from a photo alone are the hardest: 17.7%. A profile gives the AI, and you, something concrete to work with; a photo mostly does not.
| What the person gave the AI | Generations | Ended in a copy |
|---|---|---|
| A profile screenshot (wants an opener) | 4,131 | 50.1% |
| A chat screenshot (wants a reply) | 16,006 | 34.4% |
| Pasted text (a message or bio) | 15,143 | 32.7% |
| A photo only (wants an opener) | 558 | 17.7% |
5. Sweet beats funny, by a lot
Every generation carries the tone the person asked for. Flirty and bold are requested most, but sweet is the tone whose lines most often get copied: 52.1% of sweet generations produced a sent line. Funny came last at 19.2%. Two honest caveats: the person chooses the tone, so some of this is who picks sweet versus who picks funny; and "funny" is the hardest thing to write for someone else, human or AI.
| Tone requested | Generations | People | Ended in a copy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sweet | 3,203 | 828 | 52.1% |
| Flirty | 9,298 | 2,501 | 37.9% |
| Bold and flirty | 8,939 | 2,898 | 35.6% |
| Warm and playful | 2,350 | 1,046 | 33.1% |
| Smooth | 3,605 | 1,307 | 30.6% |
| Casual | 1,861 | 844 | 21.4% |
| Funny | 1,672 | 848 | 19.2% |
6. How the copied lines open
No two copied lines are the same, but they start the same way surprisingly often. These are the opening phrases (first three words) chosen by the most different people, out of 12,677 copied lines:
| Opening phrase | Different people who copied a line starting this way |
|---|---|
| "You've got me..." | 65 |
| "I love how..." | 51 |
| "I love that..." | 42 |
| "Is it just..." | 41 |
| "I love a..." | 40 |
| "Is that a..." | 38 |
| "I have to..." | 37 |
| "You just made..." | 34 |
| "I'm ready to..." | 32 |
| "You're making it..." | 27 |
| "The way you..." | 25 |
| "I'm already picturing..." | 23 |
| "I'm curious, what's..." | 23 |
| "Sounds like a..." | 18 |
| "So you're saying..." | 18 |
| "Me encanta que..." (Spanish) | 17 |
Two families deserve a note. "I love how / that / a..." is the workhorse: a direct, specific compliment about something the other person said or did. "Is it just me..." is the most polarising opener in the data: it is the phrase the AI reaches for most, it was copied by 41 different people, and it is also the opener most often left behind. Use it once, never twice.
7. What a copied reply looks like
A few lines people copied, chosen because they contain no names and nothing private. They are AI suggestions, not anything a user wrote:
- "I love that answer! So, how do you spot someone who's trustworthy?"
- "You just made my heart do a backflip with that sweet message!"
- "Sounds like a perfect date! I might just have to steal that idea. 😉"
- "So you're saying your life's a perfectly drawn map with zero room for spontaneous doodles?"
- "I'm already picturing us laughing over drinks, what's your favorite cocktail?"
- "You're making me curious! Do you have a favorite artist you love to sing along to? 🎵"
- "Only if you promise to keep that smile on repeat."
- "Oh, I love that you're paying attention! What else do you want to know? 😍"
Notice the shape: one specific reaction, one easy question, one bubble.
8. When people flirt
Copies peak between 16:00 and 19:00 UTC: late morning to early afternoon in the US, evening in the UK and Europe, late night in India, which together make up most of the audience. The quietest hours are 06:00 to 09:00 UTC. By day of the week, Sunday is the quietest, about 15% below the weekday average; Saturday is not the peak, Tuesday and Wednesday are slightly ahead of the rest. About 6% of copied lines are in Spanish and about 1% in German; the rest are English.
| Hour (UTC) | Copied lines, 90 days |
|---|---|
| 00-03 | 2,050 |
| 04-07 | 1,649 |
| 08-11 | 1,488 |
| 12-15 | 1,914 |
| 16-19 | 3,005 |
| 20-23 | 2,625 |
What to take from this if you write your own
- One bubble. Aim for 70 to 106 characters. If it needs scrolling, cut it.
- Specific beats clever. Mention the thing they actually said or showed. The generic line is the one nobody sent.
- End on an easy question. Half of the sent lines do. It hands them the next move.
- Warm over funny. Sweet lines were sent almost three times as often as funny ones. A joke is the hardest thing to land in one line.
- Use their name sparingly. About one in eight sent lines opens with it; more than that reads like a form letter.
- An emoji is optional. One in four sent lines has one; three in four do not.
Methodology and privacy
Window: 30 June to 28 September 2026. Generation counts include only real visitors; test traffic, crawlers and our own team's usage are excluded with the same filters we use for every internal report. "Copied" means the person tapped copy on a suggested line; we cannot see whether it was sent, and we cannot see replies. Every line quoted or counted above is an AI suggestion produced by FlirtCopilot, not a message a user typed or received; no user messages, screenshots or profiles were read for this analysis, and nothing a user types, uploads or generates is published. Opening-phrase counts are by distinct people, not by number of copies. Tone and input-type copy rates reflect what people chose to ask for as well as how the lines performed. Figures are rounded to one decimal.
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In this data the median copied reply was 86 characters, about 15 to 17 words, and half fell between 70 and 106. One text bubble.
People clearly think so: 49.5% of the replies they chose to send contained a question. A question hands the other person an easy next move.
Sweet had the highest copy rate at 52.1%, funny the lowest at 19.2%. Tone is chosen by the user, so part of this is who picks which tone, but the gap is large.