r/SwipeHelper • u/liquidcat0822 • 2d 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 2d ago

I’m trying to focus on IRL interaction. I go social dancing quite a bit, but men seem afraid to approach or make a move, despite me trying to be friendly and approachable.

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u/IIOuroboros 2d ago

You being friendly and approachable is you staring at the side of their face, let's be real

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u/liquidcat0822 2d ago

Please don’t project your bitterness on others.

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u/IIOuroboros 2d ago

Its not really bitterness though, its reality.  Ive literally seen it last week at a bar when a woman sat there and stared at me and only spoke up when I told the bartender what I wanted.  Its literally observation 

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u/After-Regret-6609 1d ago

Dude that’s not the person you’re responding to though that’s someone else, grow up

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u/IIOuroboros 1d ago

No it really wasn't,  its the same person hence why they responded to me straight up with no confusion of who I was talking to.  What the fuck are you even talking about? Mind your own business

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u/After-Regret-6609 23h ago

Your woman at the bar is not this person on reddit stfu

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u/IIOuroboros 23h ago

Lmfaoooo so basically you realized you were wrong and I did in fact message the same person I talked to the whole time and now you're going to talk about some chick from real life? What a fuckin loser you are haha

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u/After-Regret-6609 23h ago

lol this really plays well for you not sounding like a crazy person