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.