The next generation figured out that dating apps and online dating is a joke and dead end. They are going back to meeting each other the old fashion way
If all men were 6'6, women would want 7'7. Hypergamy isn't a sustainable business model. When nothing is ever good enough, you cannot sell a product. Hypergamy always comes down to one word: More. They will not be satisfied and sooner or later, you won't be enough.
Some internal data was leaked before bumble made the choice to allow men to pay to send the first contact. Woman were only sending messages to less than 2% of men on the app in a given area on average. After they opened it up to men making the first move woman started responding to 5% of messages and they considered this a huge win. You cant have an ice cream store and only sell ice cream to 2% of your customers and expect to survive.
Shout out for Gen Z for finishing what Millennials started.
Shout out to Gen X for educating everyone the past 10+ years.
Interesting stat about only 35% of users being female. Much of this 35% are a hard core of carousel riders, swiping left till its Chad's turn. Naturally men have adopted strategies to capture their attention by appearing high value. This has totally skewed the market. Unless you just want to rail a slut and can act high value, OLD is not likely to bring many good results.
I used dating apps to some success back in 2017 up until 2020, being on top of my game may have helped but i wasn't top 10% of men or anything, There was plenty of desirable women, hot and young, some milfs, and from all over the city.
I didn't use them until this year again, and the effect of the covid lockdowns must have been disastrous for the apps. They charge for everything, theres single moms galore ( yesterday i was chatting with a 21 year old single mom of 2,broke as fuck and her oldest is 5). A massive amount of very hot girls looking for sugar daddies, selling content, +45 yr old milfs who want a perfect 10 guy with all the benefits to settle down (at last). And the worse part is that there is a third of the people that used them a few years ago, all spread throughout the city.Just not enough people using them.
I've gotten a few numbers and interest has been low, hotness too. Bleak as fuck.
Nothing beats real life approaching and shaking a hand.
Not surprising...It takes men a bit to collectively catch on, but it's clear that "dating" apps are not a place to meet women worthy of commitment, so men started to default to only using them as a place to find sluts to fuck.
And with men collectively withdrawing any chance of commitment (translation: resources to siphon off of), the business model of those apps becomes unsustainable since women cannot and will not contribute enough themselves to make that model sustainable.
In the context of socioeconomics, female hypergamy is self defeating when too pervasively practiced/encouraged. Because any men not benefiting from it withdraw from the system and said system collapses. The top N% of men alone cannot sustain society, and neither can the top N% of men and top 80% of women.
This is why any society that wants to progress past and stay past mud huts makes sure to incentivize the continued participation of men who were not in the top N%.
Seagram7 1d ago
If all men were 6'6, women would want 7'7. Hypergamy isn't a sustainable business model. When nothing is ever good enough, you cannot sell a product. Hypergamy always comes down to one word: More. They will not be satisfied and sooner or later, you won't be enough.
Some internal data was leaked before bumble made the choice to allow men to pay to send the first contact. Woman were only sending messages to less than 2% of men on the app in a given area on average. After they opened it up to men making the first move woman started responding to 5% of messages and they considered this a huge win. You cant have an ice cream store and only sell ice cream to 2% of your customers and expect to survive.
Shout out for Gen Z for finishing what Millennials started.
Shout out to Gen X for educating everyone the past 10+ years.
Lone_Ranger 3 1d ago
This is actually true. "They will never be satisfied" absolutely 100% true.
First-light 1d ago
Interesting stat about only 35% of users being female. Much of this 35% are a hard core of carousel riders, swiping left till its Chad's turn. Naturally men have adopted strategies to capture their attention by appearing high value. This has totally skewed the market. Unless you just want to rail a slut and can act high value, OLD is not likely to bring many good results.
MrSupreme 1d ago
I used dating apps to some success back in 2017 up until 2020, being on top of my game may have helped but i wasn't top 10% of men or anything, There was plenty of desirable women, hot and young, some milfs, and from all over the city.
I didn't use them until this year again, and the effect of the covid lockdowns must have been disastrous for the apps. They charge for everything, theres single moms galore ( yesterday i was chatting with a 21 year old single mom of 2,broke as fuck and her oldest is 5). A massive amount of very hot girls looking for sugar daddies, selling content, +45 yr old milfs who want a perfect 10 guy with all the benefits to settle down (at last). And the worse part is that there is a third of the people that used them a few years ago, all spread throughout the city.Just not enough people using them.
I've gotten a few numbers and interest has been low, hotness too. Bleak as fuck.
Nothing beats real life approaching and shaking a hand.
No-Stress-Cat 20h ago
Is that link right? I'm getting a Welcome to nginx screen.
Overkill_Engine Endorsed Contributor 13h ago
Not surprising...It takes men a bit to collectively catch on, but it's clear that "dating" apps are not a place to meet women worthy of commitment, so men started to default to only using them as a place to find sluts to fuck.
And with men collectively withdrawing any chance of commitment (translation: resources to siphon off of), the business model of those apps becomes unsustainable since women cannot and will not contribute enough themselves to make that model sustainable.
In the context of socioeconomics, female hypergamy is self defeating when too pervasively practiced/encouraged. Because any men not benefiting from it withdraw from the system and said system collapses. The top N% of men alone cannot sustain society, and neither can the top N% of men and top 80% of women.
This is why any society that wants to progress past and stay past mud huts makes sure to incentivize the continued participation of men who were not in the top N%.