If you’ve ever been fortunate enough to dip your toe into the cesspit curious pool that is modern dating online, you’ll have come across a few staples.

Someone wielding a fish they may/may not have actually caught.

A string of group photos that make it impossible to figure out which one old mate actually is.

A colleague who’s hit super like.

And, of course, someone posing next to a tiger on their holiday.

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But that could be about to change. The world’s biggest dating app, Tinder, is taking a stand against users’ tiger selfies in the name of animal cruelty.

"Posing next to a king of the jungle doesn’t make you one," Tinder wrote in a blog post this week.

"It’s time for the tiger selfies to go. More often than not, these photos take advantage of beautiful creatures that have been torn from their natural environment.”

Tinder called for all of its users to remove tiger selfies, and says they have donated $10,000 to Project Cat.

The move came after PETA Australia wrote an open letter to Tinder founder Sean Rad last week, urging Tinder to "take the tiger stripes out of swipes".

"Not only are these types of photos cruel to animals, unaware Tinderlings might also mistake them for cute, harmless pictures and be prompted to take part in this abusive industry themselves," PETA wrote.

Cassandra Koenen, head of wildlife campaigns at World Animal Protection welcomed Tinder’s response to tiger selfies.

Tinder's crackdown on users posting tiger selfies is a step in the right direction to help protect wild animals used for tourist entertainment.

"We are starting to see a real shift in the public's attitude as they become more aware that many of these wild animals are taken from their mothers as babies, forced to endure cruel and intensive training to make them ‘safe’ to interact with tourists. It's a far cry from their natural life in the wild."

Are you subsidising animal cruelty on holiday?

According to Oxford University, the mistreatment of up to half a million animals in wildlife tourist attractions around the world is being subsidised by the tourists that visit them.

Almost all the animals at South-East Asian tourism spots have a history of abuse, Nicola Benyon from World Animal Protection told Hack last year.

"Basically if you can ride it, you can hug it, you can have a selfie with it or if it is performing for you then it is very likely that that animal has suffered cruelty."

Read more about animal cruelty and tourism here.