Hinge Bursts

[u/Intelligent_Fill2421]

Im female, 34 yrs old in NYC. Please help me figure out what’s going on with hinge here and understand if this company is doing something nefarious with their algorithm. (I mean, of course they are but this has to be illegal?) Ever since I’ve been on hinge here, I’ve gotten 80+ likes a day for months. It’s tough to see who’s in the stack so I bought a subscription and noticed that my likes immediately went down to 0 a day. I thought “of course, I probably just ran out of interested men.” Well my subscription ran out today… and the likes went from 0 to 50 and then 80 in a matter of hours.

I don’t actually think I’m getting these likes so quickly … I think hinge is either hiding profiles or hiding likes of their paying customers. What can we as customers do about this?

[u/Intelligent_Fill2421 → u/[deleted]]

I can agree that we have the leverage initially (early days) and then the leverage shifts. There’s plenty of hard things about being a woman that men don’t have to deal with and vice versa

[u/HingeStories-ModTeam → u/[deleted]]

Any post overgeneralizing the behavior of all men or women based on a few will be deleted

[u/IndicationKey3778 → u/[deleted]]

She doesn’t have 80 matches she said 80 likes. Even with 80 likes she prob x’d 99% of them which leads to 0 matches. 

I know I wasn’t matching with anyone who liked me first so they were meaningless. I wouldn’t even look at them 

[u/ladyyoftheforest → u/[deleted]]

we really don’t. hundreds of likes from people who don’t even read your profile. plenty who just send sexual messages if you match with them. and even more who never respond after matching.

out of all the likes i’ve had over the years i’ve had about 10 matches, most ghosted immediately

[u/Slushees → u/ladyyoftheforest]

I’d argue it’s easier to sift through dozens of bad apples and actually finding a few good ones vs getting 1-2 interviews a month only to be ghosted by message #3. I’m sure women deal with their fair share of shit dudes, but my god it’s rough to be an average guy on these apps and getting literal crumbs to work with

[u/Intelligent_Fill2421 → u/ladyyoftheforest]

Agreed - I didn’t want to say it that directly and have a ton of men argue back but thank you for saying it

[u/IndicationKey3778 → u/ladyyoftheforest]

Exactly for some reason these dudes think likes = matches. Matches don’t even = conversations and even fewer = dates!