Nick Gray is the best thing happening on social media this week.

Discouraged by dating apps, the Austin-based entrepreneur used a tweet to solicit a blind date.

The twist: It was a three-day eating and walking tour of Tokyo. He asked for DMs from single women with a passport and a sense of adventure.

He offered to pay all expenses, including a separate hotel room. The only requirement was helping him film videos for Instagram.

Nick got more than 400 inquiries, along with a sizable contingent of commentators, many big online influencers including Alex Friedman, Justin Welsh and Dan Go.

“This is one of my favorite things I’ve seen on Twitter maybe ever,” posted Sahil Bloom, who has 1 million followers.

As the day approached, the enthusiasm grew. Nick was inundated with suggestions, such as advice that he bring flowers. (He did.)

She arrived in Tokyo on April 24th.

“What are people saying on the internet about us?” she asked.

“It is about 90% hype and 10% worry that you’re going to cut out my kidneys,” Nick said.

“I like those odds.”

The date began with a ramen tasting with an expert who eats 300 bowls of noodles per year. They learned to distinguish tonkotsu from shoyu broth.

The online audience was delighted. 

The date brought hope and light to the seemingly perpetual darkness of the Internet.

Some suggested Hallmark and Netflix buy the movie rights. One woman said she would plan a similar trip to Greece.

It helped that Nick projects an upbeat vibe and is known in a corner of the Internet as the author of a book about how to throw a two-hour cocktail party.

The first full day was a whirlwind, biking from Shinjuku to Shibuya and then Omotesandō.

They went to Onodera in the Omote-Sando neighborhood for a lunch of seared tuna, salmon, scallops, and a little egg cake.

Before going to sleep, Nick struck a note of disbelief, tweeting:

“I guess I didn’t fully think it through. It is a little bit insane right? To fly 15 hours and then spend the next 72 hours with someone you’ve never met. Sometimes I forget where my limits are.”

In the evening he told his date that he was exhausted and stressed and wanted to call it a day.

Stuck in a large crowd, he said his date — a blonde he had just met 24 hours earlier – took his hand, calmed him down and guided him to get something to eat. They stumbled across a group playing jazz.

The crowd on the Internet – so often known for casual cruelty — cheered them on. 

“Two words – marry her,” Greg Isenberg tweeted.

Life consists of long stretches of the mundane punctuated by the unexpected and memorable. 

No matter how it unfolds, Nick engineered an indelible memory for himself, a woman from Utah and remarkably, the rest of us.