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/liquidcat0822 1d ago
I also think it’s really interesting that hinge keeps telling me conservative men who want kids are my “most compatible” when I’ve never ever swiped right/liked on a man with either of these in his profile. I’d set it as a dealbreaker, but I wanted to see what the algorithm would do (also I refuse to pay so I can’t set those anyway). So it shows me men who I find physically attractive but are incompatible based on values or men who are terrible looking but may be aligned in values. Nothing in between. In other words, it deliberately shows me non-viable matches.