This long-distance date idea is perfect for couples who love TikTok trends, inside jokes, and chaotic conversations. The “Hear Me Out” trend became popular online as people started revealing their most unexpected fictional crushes, celebrity crushes, animated characters, or oddly specific attractions and defending them with a dramatic “hear me out…” explanation.
The fun of the game is not just the characters you choose, but hearing your partner try to justify their picks. It usually leads to laughing, confusion, debates, and discovering the most random things about each other.
Instructions
Pick a time that works for both of you; use a time zone converter if needed.
Hop on a video call using Zoom, Google Meet, Discord, FaceTime, Microsoft Teams, or Skype.
Before the date, prepare a list of your “hear me out” characters, celebrity crushes, fictional characters, or unusual attractions.
Examples of “hear me out” picks to help with your list:
- 🔢 The number 8
- 🎩 The Sorting Hat from Harry Potter
- 🐸 Shrek
- 🤖 Optimus Prime
- 🐠 Gill from Finding Nemo
- 🦁 Scar from The Lion King
- 🦇 Venom
- 🐺 Nick Wilde from Zootopia
- 🐅 Tai Lung from Kung Fu Panda
- 🌪 The tornado from Sharknado
- 🗿 The Moai statues
- 🛞 Lightning McQueen
- 🧃 Kool-Aid Man
- 🌮 A Crunchwrap Supreme
- 👑 Princess Peach
- 🐍 Viper from Kung Fu Panda
- 🐈 Catwoman
Find and save pictures of your choices on your phone or computer.
Take turns revealing your photos one by one.
Before showing each picture, say “hear me out…” and explain your reasoning to your partner.
React to each other’s choices, debate the picks, and rate how understandable or outrageous they are.
Continue until both of you finish revealing all your choices.
At the end, decide whose “hear me out” list was the most chaotic.
Elevate this date!
🖥️ You can also create your own digital Hear Me Out cake together on Canva simultaneously and add all of your characters while on the video call.
Here is one of the virtual “hear me out” cakes created by Vanessa and Mehrad, the founders of LDRDate, filled with all of their funniest and most chaotic characters.
🎂 Both of you can buy your own mini cake, print pictures of your crushes, and stick them into the cake while explaining your choices over video call.
📸 Once you finish your explanations, take pictures of the final cakes and send them to each other. Tag @ldrdate!
😂 Choose themes like animated characters, celebrities, video game characters, food, animals, or anything that comes to your imagination!