#FirstDateSelfie is a growing trend on Instagram that provides single users with a new way to feel bad about themselves.

The hashtag is pretty self-explanatory: a couple shares selfies supposedly taken on their first date. The hashtag is reportedly popular among young, teenage users, but adults have hopped on the trend as well.

L’Oreal Thompson Payton, 27, for example, took her #FirstDateSelfie in 2011 with a point and shoot camera (technology that has now been replaced by the smart phone) and only recently shared it on Instagram with the hashtag.

#firstdateselfie #memorylane YEP, this pic of David & ME is in our bedroom and it’s a selfie from our VERY FIRST DATE on Valentine’s Day a couple years ago. I was looking at it today and was thinking ‘how life has changed (for both of us) since we met!’ It was a slow start but looking back I realise how perfect the timing actually was .. especially after being solo for many years. So if you are #single I just want to say, don’t give up, true love could be just around the corner! #mariaelita #soulmate #miraclecoach #truelove #dontgiveup #heart #firstdate #coupleselfie #valentinesday #miracleshappen

A photo posted by Maria Elita (@miraclecoach) on Jun 6, 2014 at 12:41am PDT

“I was looking at [the picture] today and was thinking ‘how life has changed (for both of us) since we met!’ It was a slow start but looking back I realize how perfect the timing actually was.. especially after being solo for many years. So if you are #single I just want to say, don’t give up, true love could be just around the corner,” Payton wrote.

#FirstDateSelfie

Me and my man on our first date. Yes he made me tAke selfies on our first date. Haha. #firstdateselfie #boyfriend #myman #firstdate #onacouchatcoatplusworldmarket

A photo posted by Lisa fabio (@lisafabio) on Oct 10, 2014 at 12:43pm PDT

#firstdateselfie … Yeah I always get them in bed on the first date 😉 bam!

A photo posted by Marco J Mammone (@mjmammone) on Dec 12, 2014 at 3:42am PST

#firstdateselfie @pjbradshaw @tiarna.loftus

A photo posted by Christina Moore (@clmoore) on Dec 12, 2014 at 10:54pm PST

#firstdateselfie

A photo posted by tiialicia (@tiialicia) on Dec 12, 2014 at 7:19am PST

At Santa Monica pier #firstdateselfie

A photo posted by ravensvoice (@ravensvoice) on Feb 2, 2014 at 5:32pm PST

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Olivia Truffaut-Wong was born and raised in Berkeley, California, where she developed her love of all things entertainment. After moving to New York City to earn her degree in Film Studies, she stayed on the East Coast to follow her passion and become an entertainment writer. She lives on a diet of television, movies and food.