The platform is at this point majority scam accounts, I'd probably put the number at 80% (speaking as a man looking at women at least) as fake.
They'll send you a like, and they'll quickly talk about "making their fortune" or buying multiple properties. Once you're suckered in thinking that's fortunate they'll ask if you're interested in making such profits, because they can show you "crypto investments". Of course you'll be trained on just sending money to some account on a fake website you can never withdraw from.
If you haven't used to platform in the last six months it's really hard to believe how bad things have gotten. "Verified" accounts that are AI generated and have no hands or no face, and profiles like this actually common:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Tinder/comments/160lrof/bro_what/
I know we joke about places like Reddit and Twitter being full of bots but I don't think anyone has any sense of the scale of the bots on Tinder. Paying $500 for priority matching with that sounds funny.
And thanks for the link to the laugh/nightmare fuel.
People put silly pics in their profiles and memes sometimes. If someone has this as their only profile pic, they're not taking it seriously. If someone has it after real pictures, they're trying to see if you have the same sense of humor.
But yeah, AI generated profiles are becoming an issue. Especially because you can't reverse image search them like you could with old scammers.
Unfortunately, in some demographic it does. Unfortunately there's also a demographic willing to pay $499 a month for premium tinder.
The badge signals two things:
1. This person is likely serious about finding a long-term partner.
2. This person likely has considerable disposable income be able to pay $499/month.
> You could spend $499 out at bars trying to meet people, and at least you’d get 50 beers in return!
If you're looking for a long-term partner, I think a bar is basically the worst place. Or maybe it's just a terrible place for me personally, since I go to bars, so a person at a bar is probably not a good match for me.
Not, necessarily, a negative dating signal for some people.
(Less cynically - it might signal "this person is comfortably-off and is willing to devote significant energy to dating" - which could be positive or negative depending on whether you think their dating intentions align with yours or not)
Luckily I'm not going back cause I met my now-wife somewhere else.
But from what I've heard, I get the feeling that the majority of men think it's a hook-up app, whereas the majority of women think it's a dating app.
Men, both gay and straight, are far more willing, generally speaking, to be willing to have anonymous sex than heterosexual women.
This is deeeeep into try-hard territory.
Fancy cars work because fancy cars are cool regardless of dating status.
But what kind of "loser" is so desperate as to pay $500 a month to meet people?
The badge is not a plus. The other stuff is.
At least Lexus considers long-term reliability to be a luxury feature, whereas BMW just makes sure the car will last for the 3 years the original owner will lease it.
If I'd gone with the twin-turbo, I'd probably have thrown it away twice by now.
Bars/Pubs are a place people have been meeting each other for 100s of years.
plus bars skew by demographic and event. used to work at bars and restaraunts near hospitals -- 9am shift changes means people want beer at 10am -- and dated a couple of nurses because of it. find the punk rock bar, or nerd event at the bar, etc.
if you're only willing to do low effort interactions through an app then you're only going to get low effort partners, who will dismiss you based on one bad photo.
All of which will be like 98% men.
> if you're only willing to do low effort interactions through an app then you're only going to get low effort partners, who will dismiss you based on one bad photo.
I found my wife on OKCupid back in 2010, before online dating became an utter cesspool of dick pics and matches based purely on attractiveness with no consideration for actual matching by personality.
Really, if I were to ever be back in the dating pool, Tinder in general would be my last choice.
It seems less appealing than buying all of the other features but keeping the fact you paid for this completely hidden.
You could spend $499 out at bars trying to meet people, and at least you’d get 50 beers in return!