Tinder thinks some people will pay almost $500 a month for more ‘efficient ways to find connections’ with its ‘VIP’ plan::Tinder Select is only available to some of the dating app’s “highly engaged and active” users, and it’ll cost about $6,000 a year, Bloomberg reported.
Tinder, like most businesses, is hunting whales.
Funnily enough, that’s how a lot of people will describe their user experience as well.
Honestly like no amount of money will change the results if your dating profile is shit.
If you’re a whale willing to spend 500 on tinder, spend it on marketing yourself. New photos, personal trainer, hobbies and seriously important - new clothes that fit you.
Lot of single people I meet always say “I don’t want to change who I am”. Changing the way you look and feel isn’t changing who you are. Unless you’re actually as shallow as your outfit. It’s not lame to see what the trends are and even ask a salesperson of the opposite sex for advice. Putting yourself out there is all aspects of such.
Present your best self. Because that’s all a person swiping can judge you on. That 5 seconds.
Or just spend the $500 on an escort if you’re that desperate. You can get a pretty classy gal for $500.
I’m only moderately classy, but I’ll do it for $400. I’m really good at pretending to be interested in stuff I don’t care about, so they can talk about whatever weirdness they got going on that makes them willing to pay $500 a month for fuckin tinder. What a steal!
Go on…
What do you think this is? Tinder will pay $150 for a girl to go on a couple dates and pocket the $350. The “enhanced profile” will have a near 100% success rate, if success is defined as a date with a girl who’s only interested in money.
They’ve probably already workshopped a name for the “content creators”.
That honestly makes me kind of sad. Not even specifically the escorting part but just like… that seems like a small amount of money for that on the escort’s end. Like for example, I am pretty sure there are OF girls who sell nudes for that much lol
It shows that you have $500 to throw in the garbage. That would interest a lot of people.
I just want to show them my butthole. But now I have to tell all my neighbors I like to show people my butthole and no one seems interested when I tell them.
Your comment is a screenplay waiting to happen.
If the dating apps can’t provide decent results even once in a while then why would I pay?
“There are several emails from people who are interested, just pay a subscription fee to read them.”
Pays sub fee and find out the emails are just spam.
Yeah I’ll pay hundreds for this.
At what point does this just become pimping?
(Surely they could make even more money by compensating people who are more in-demand for their time …)
Yeah, next thing you know they’ll be sliding offers to the most liked people’s profiles offering the chance to become compensated daters if they go out with VIP profiles, no pressure to do anything sexual though, because that’d be illegal.
Honestly, this 500$ a month thing is just sad, because it’ll definitely work (financially), and Tinder will do some shenanigans with the algorithm to make it seem a little worth it, and it’ll just definitely not be worth it to the people paying 500$ a month.
Most of the people who are going to pay for it, are the ones who the algo has buried so hard they get shown to no one. So it will sadly give them fat better results…
$500 a month? Fuuuuuck that noise
At those prices, that’s not the only thing getting fucked.
$500 a month is a lot of horny. It could also host some seriously amazing mixers. (Cue Mitchell and Web’s friends of… bit.)
The best thing I’ve ever done with my mental health is stop chasing the idea that being with someone is the key to happiness. Things like tinder just prey on insecurities with false promises.
Yes, some people are unfortunately desperate to find love.
Tinder is absolutely not the way to do it, but they’re emotionally susceptible to this sort of manipulative abuse, so…yeah. Tinder will rake in the cash.
This really showcases the perverse incentives of the profit motive, how it corrupts even what humans consider the most precious thing. And this is why I will never use a commercial dating app. It’s FOSS or bust. I’ll just make friends and find people other ways.
Even a subscription to a dating app very obviously shows where their incentives lie. How can a subscription ever work when the goal is to find someone… and stop using the app? They are not incentivized to have people find someone. They are incentivized to keep people desperate. They are incentivized to not have them find anyone, and keep telling them “it’s just chance! You’ll find someone eventually! You don’t want to die alone… do you? You do not want to be a sad little loser without anyone… do you? We even have these paid things to increase your chances…”
It’s downright fucked up.
Not to even mention the whole gross things like having to “market yourself”. Removing all of humanity from the experience and instead treating yourself like a fucking product.
And the truth is, in my experience… it’s really not that hard to meet people if you just work on becoming a better person (which isn’t easy, to be fair, but necessary, especially since you will struggle with getting much out of love if you don’t), and are actually getting out there. Just meeting new people and friends without much expectations. Whether it’s on a friend’s party, board game night at your university, or whatever interests you have. Because too often I think people just don’t meet many new people in general, and just treat getting a partner like a goal, instead of forming new connections. Eventually you may meet someone you click with. After all, people of your preferred gender(s) are looking for others too.
Super effective. It weeds out the 95 percenters!
if someone pays 500 bucks to get a date, then they are getting nothing but gold diggers.
Hookers would be cheaper and easier
These are hookers… just expensive ones
Tinder sucks and their support team is dumb as bricks.
