Draking: The new dating trend among millennials

Draking: The new dating trend among millennials


Social media is used for a lot of things these days. For promotion, to express ideas and beliefs and even validate your looks. But more often than ever, you will find lurkers scrounging for some attention post a heartbreak and going all mush-mellow on the internet. Although both Mostly men, who’ve suffered though an emotional haemorrhage, post relationship, take to the interweb to express their deepest sentiments. Not just on the internet actually; if you’re a revved up modern day Romeo, you’re definitely taking it offline too, just so you can emote your emotional jargon through a song or a dance.

The netherworld of dating and romance has given these cushion-hearted people a name. They’re mostly known as Drakers and what they experience post a break-up is known as Draking, which is another dating trend getting increasingly popular nowadays. Why Draking you ask? Well, because only Drake can make every emotion seem like it’s his last through his songs and these men relate to his songs post a bad break-up. So, if you’re highly emotional post break-up and put up cryptic status messages, which mostly say ‘I am a hot mess and I will never recover from the misery of a breaking heart unless I tattoo your name on it’ you’ve been Draking up a storm.


Let’s make this simpler — when your relationship experience goes awry and you take to the internet to express your sorrow through a social media post, quotes, state of being, how you haven’t eaten in days because you miss your ex, sad songs or pictures where you look like an evolutionary fiasco, you, my friend, are a hardcore Draker, dubbing some hardcore Draking.

Drakers are easily identifiable and we’re pretty sure you have one from your circle of friends. Thankfully, it’s not a lifelong condition. Drakers get better with time and patience, and balance out their emotional vomit quite nonchalantly when they’re happy although secretly they still feel emotional when they hear Drake’s music. What? We said secretly!

Here are some symptomatic hurdles each person faces, if he’s Draking hard...

Are you constantly cueing Drake on your play list?

You make a lot of attempts to seem extra sensitive and caring.

You go overboard with inspirational love soaked quotes on Facebook and Instagram (think Rumi).

You bombard your friends often, through direct messages, with inspirational love quotes and poetry. You are on a roll of self pity and keep complaining about how life has always been unfair to you.

You’re a mess usually. Your hair is all over the place and friends can’t remember the last time they saw you without a guitar and a sad song you’ve been playing off late.

You remove your profile picture from all your social media accounts so that everyone knows you’re absolutely miserable.

You grow that beard ten fold and mope around with an unkempt look. You start your sentences with ‘I don’t believe this is happening to me’ or ‘What have I done to deserve this’.

You make desperate attempts to move on to other women and when you fail, you’re back to moping about life again.

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