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	An '''indicator of interest''' ('''IOI''') is a signal — spoken or not — that someone is attracted or at least open. The term is [[Mystery Method]] vocabulary. The opposite is an '''indicator of disinterest''' ([[IOD]]). An '''approach invitation''' ([[Approach invitation\|AI]]) is the special case of an IOI that means "you may come over."		An '''indicator of interest''' ('''IOI''') is a signal — spoken or not — that someone is attracted or at least open. The term is [[Mystery Method]] vocabulary. The opposite is an '''indicator of disinterest''' ([[IOD]]). An '''approach invitation''' ([[Approach invitation\|AI]]) is the special case of an IOI that means "you may come over."
			<ref name="s1">{{cite web \|url=http://www.pualingo.com/ \|title=PUA Lingo \|author=Vince Lin \|website=PUA Lingo \|date=2008 \|access-date=11 September 2026}}</ref><ref name="s2">{{cite book \|last=von Markovik \|first=Erik \|title=The Mystery Method: How to Get Beautiful Women Into Bed \|publisher=St. Martin's Press \|year=2007 \|isbn=978-0-312-36011-5}}</ref>
	== Classic ladder ==		== Classic ladder ==
	PUA Lingo (Vince Lin, 2008) listed a typical escalation of IOIs, rewritten here as an encyclopedia list rather than the original glossary prose:		PUA Lingo (Vince Lin, 2008) listed a typical escalation of IOIs, rewritten here as an encyclopedia list rather than the original glossary prose:
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	== ~~Sources~~ ==		== References ==
	* PUA Lingo, "Indicator of Interest (IOI)," Vince Lin, 22 Dec 2008; Common Crawl 2014 capture in Wingman corpus (<code>pualingo-983</code>). Encyclopedia rewrite, not a paste.		{{Reflist}}
	* Erik von Markovik, ''The Mystery Method'' (2007).

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{{Infobox term
| name = Indicator of interest
| also = IOI, IOIs
| field = Pickup
| origin = [[Mystery Method]]
}}
An '''indicator of interest''' ('''IOI''') is a signal — spoken or not — that someone is attracted or at least open. The term is [[Mystery Method]] vocabulary. The opposite is an '''indicator of disinterest''' ([[IOD]]). An '''approach invitation''' ([[Approach invitation|AI]]) is the special case of an IOI that means "you may come over."

== Classic ladder ==
PUA Lingo (Vince Lin, 2008) listed a typical escalation of IOIs, rewritten here as an encyclopedia list rather than the original glossary prose:

# Held eye contact, "come talk to me" look (AI)
# Unconscious self-touch (hair, hand)
# Open body, lean-in
# She touches you ([[kino]])
# She complies with a request ([[Compliance (pickup)|compliance]])
# Verbal compliment
# Long held "dinner-bowl" eye contact
# Lip lick / chest presentation (sexual)
# Willing to [[bounce]] or isolate

Mystery-school rule of thumb: go for a kiss close after about three IOIs. Later schools (including [[Chase Amante]]) treat continued compliance and the absence of IODs as enough; waiting for a cartoon IOI is how [[average frustrated chump|AFCs]] never escalate.

== Fake IOIs ==
The same lexicon warns that some signals are bait for free attention or drinks. Distinguishing real from fake is [[calibration]], which only arrives with field time.

== See also ==
* [[Indicator of disinterest]]
* [[Approach invitation]]
* [[Calibration]]
* [[Kino]]
* [[Mystery Method]]

== Sources ==
* PUA Lingo, "Indicator of Interest (IOI)," Vince Lin, 22 Dec 2008; Common Crawl 2014 capture in Wingman corpus (<code>pualingo-983</code>). Encyclopedia rewrite, not a paste.
* Erik von Markovik, ''The Mystery Method'' (2007).

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