We find our true friends on the battlefield, as oft-quoted (and long-beheaded) Game of Thrones character Ned Stark used to say. What’s the ultimate battlefield? Well, love, of course.
Here’s one dating tip akin to arming yourself with Valyrian steel: it turns out that broadcasting your fandom for HBO’s ever-popular fantasy show in your online dating profile might just help you get some, especially in Washington, D.C.
According to an analysis from dating service Match, the District is the number one city to find a fan of GoT to date (on their site, anyway). D.C. nets the top slot for dating a female fan and second for dating a male aficionado.
Is it any surprise that a city with a three-block line for a Game of Thrones pop-up bar and a penchant for streaming shows about power and intrigue might use the show as a way to break the ice?
Match says that Game of Thrones users get 20 percent more contact on their service than people who proclaim their love for The Walking Dead.
Plus, looks like winter is not coming for the sex lives of Throne-heads. People who like the show are 81 percent more likely to have had a date in the past year and 61 percent more likely to have had sex in that time, compared to folks who don’t like it, according to Match’s “Singles in America” survey, which looks at 5,500 single folks across the board, rather than just those who use Match). Plus, they’re 26 percent more likely to have filmed sex. (No one is suggesting a causal relationship, but I can’t help but think about the early seasons’ heavy use of “sexposition.”)
And according to music streaming service Spotify, D.C. ranks fourth in cities with the most show fandom, with Arlington coming in third. The top city is Santa Clara, California. (Full disclosure: I’m still salty because Spotify determined a season back that my music taste was most similar to Theon Greyjoy’s, so, for purposes of self-preservation, I utterly reject the methodology.)
For what it’s worth, though, the best Game of Thrones-related song remains this trap remix of Arya’s “Oysters, Clams, and Cockles” refrain from back in Season 5.
Rachel Kurzius