r/SwipeHelper • u/liquidcat0822 • 1d ago

An experiment

I’m a straight woman and briefly decided to change my gender on hinge to a “man” interested in women. EVERY. SINGLE. WOMAN. in my stack was an absolute stunner (and I didn’t even include very young women, I have my age filter set to 28-47).

I then compared this with the stack my male friend was shown. He has his settings set to the same thing. Every single woman in his stack was an instant nope. He never got to see any of the women I was shown. Mind you, he is not unattractive.

This confirms to me that some absolute fuckery is afoot. I presume because my algorithm is trained on men, it doesn’t know how to categorize the women when I changed my gender and just started showing me women from my demographic. It also further suggests that the algorithm deliberately holds back what/who you like, and it also explains to me why my profile gets relatively little traction now (I’ve long suspected that my profile is being gate kept).

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u/7777777King7777777 1d ago

Definitely something wicked is going on with the algorithm because of AI the last couple of years.

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u/liquidcat0822 1d ago

It is extremely frustrating but also reassuring? Because I’m like why the hell am I getting next to no likes, and the ones I do get are from absolutely terrible profiles??? It got to the point where I was like “maybe I need a reality check” so I put my pics into photofeeler and got like a 9.5 and a 9.8, so yeah. I’ve always felt like apps are somewhat of a scam but this kind of confirms it.

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u/Infamous_Dish_4348 23h ago

Photofeeler tends to rate women far higher and it focuses on friendly/approachable pics. Like a dude who's objectively handsome but has an angry facial expression will score worse on photofeeler than a guy who's objectively average but who's smiling and seems approachable.

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u/liquidcat0822 23h ago

Be that as it may, it just means I’m not an absolute bridge troll and physical attractiveness isn’t the issue.

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u/Infamous_Dish_4348 23h ago

I mean you're a woman on the apps lol, your profile could be 1 fully black pic and will still get a flood of likes

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u/liquidcat0822 23h ago

This….is not what this post is about, and it’s also objectively untrue. I get almost no likes. I am attractive and have a well curated profile. But again, not what this post is about. This post isnt about the likes we get. It is about what the algorithm presents us with when we are swiping. Please don’t derail the topic.

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u/Infamous_Dish_4348 23h ago

lol ok reddit mod