What would be a smooth message to send to him?

So recently, I've been using social media to talk to/meet new people. This guy looked cute in his profile pic so I sent him a follow request and he accepted and followed me back. As an opener message, I said "so I'm kinda confused" (I wanted to get a response and thought this sounded chill to start off with). I should have put more thought into this.

He replied with "what's up?" I don't know what would be a smooth reply.. we have similar ethnicity (he put his in his insta bio) so my default is to ask that but I feel like that's too dry/casual. Any suggestions?