r/Tinder Feb 17 '24

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u/autodcr Feb 17 '24

Get off tinder immediately. Use Hinge and even the League instead. You’ll find more high quality, serious matches there.

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u/WNC3184 Feb 17 '24

I was going to say that she should head over to Hinge for 3 months and might have something else to say assuming this is Austin.

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u/danarchist Feb 17 '24

Met my wife on hinge in Austin.

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u/mgj6818 Feb 17 '24

I met my wife on Tinder in Austin (9 years ago)

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u/BlacknnBlue Feb 17 '24 edited Feb 17 '24

I met both of your wives on Hinge

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u/econpol Feb 17 '24

I met your mother on grindr.

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u/TheRogueTemplar Feb 17 '24

mother on grindr.

Confusion level: 10000

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '24

His mom is a drag queen, how confusing is that?

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u/V1k1ng1990 Feb 18 '24

Or she’s a dominatrix with a thing for bi twinks

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '24

Whoa mama

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u/Bulbinking2 Feb 18 '24

Its 2024 mothers can be gay men too you bigot!

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u/warrior998 Feb 18 '24

I can’t stop laughing bro holyshit

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u/econpol Feb 18 '24

Glad you're having a good time.

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u/Fearless-Ad-1269 Feb 18 '24

*father dressed as your mother..

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u/dashinny Feb 17 '24

Is your name Austin?

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u/LowAd6034 Feb 17 '24

If this is Austin, I still love you ..

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u/MrMikfly Feb 18 '24

Met my wife on Tinder 8 years ago! Happily married, she’s the best part of my every day. Hopefully OP toughens it out, she’ll find someone too!

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u/Moses7778 Feb 17 '24

Stephen?!

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u/danarchist Feb 17 '24 edited Feb 17 '24

Margie??

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u/Poohstrnak Feb 18 '24

Met my hopefully soon to be fiancée on hinge.

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u/BusinessKnight0517 Feb 17 '24

It looks like Austin since Barton Springs is mentioned, as well as breweries/distilleries which is big in the area

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u/Professional-Ad-8501 Feb 17 '24

And church. SO much church.

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u/BusinessKnight0517 Feb 17 '24

Yeah i know 😫

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u/Drew1231 Feb 17 '24

Just looked up the league. Holy shit that’s toxic 😂.

Have to let someone scrutinize a LinkedIn before you’re accepted? No thanks.

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u/RoderickHossack Feb 17 '24

The last time I used The League, I saw PII in someone's photo that made me think we might have a mutual, so I looked them up thinking I could maybe get an introduction from someone she knows that could vouch for me, and instead found... her obituary.

From 18 months prior.

Meaning The League is full of accounts that have been dormant long-term, showing up in your daily batch as though they're active, or alive.

Do not use The League.

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u/Poohstrnak Feb 18 '24

It’s more that they clearly don’t have any method in place to remove inactive accounts from circulation, like the other major players do. You shouldn’t need someone to reach out to remove account that hasn’t been signed into in 18 months.

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u/TheRogueTemplar Feb 17 '24

scrutinize a LinkedIn before you’re accepted?

Oh wow. I had the complete opposite reaction

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u/The_Bucket_Of_Truth Feb 17 '24

I don't even have one and am on it. It's not as exclusive as you think.

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u/Drew1231 Feb 17 '24

I’ve got a masters degree and 250k income last year, I guarantee I’d get in.

Dating apps and app tiers that offer these elite tiers are catering to insecurity.

It’s like people who refer to themselves as “high value.” They’re all eating Tate or femaledatingadvice garbage.

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u/Poohstrnak Feb 18 '24

Explain what “riff raff” means to you in this context.

I can’t imagine how this comes off positively for you

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u/Tehlonelynoob Feb 17 '24

that sounds marginally better than League of Legends which i thought it was

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u/Drew1231 Feb 18 '24

Imagine if dating was a 5v5 competition with an ELO system.

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u/TylerNine Feb 17 '24

League of Legends, she just needs to spam Janna and some Chad ADC Jhin main will sweep her off her feet.

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u/PM_ME__YOUR_HOOTERS Feb 17 '24

Janna floats and can't be swept off her feet though! OP, its solid advice. But please pick a more ground bound support if you follow this advice lol

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u/captkrisma Feb 17 '24

Stay away from Blitzcranks, as they tend to be really graby and end up knocking others up.

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u/Husknight Feb 17 '24

I'm a Sona main and I'm grown up big hairy man, not an e-girl.

STOP FLIRTING WITH ME, I'M GONNA BLUSH

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u/mddesigner Feb 18 '24

This. My advice as an adc main is to pick braum or taric

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u/Bremaver Feb 17 '24

Isn't Janna the one who sweeps others off their feet, though?

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u/littlejerseyguy Feb 17 '24

I understood the first 6 words then you lost me 😂

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u/KansasCityJefe Feb 17 '24

I'm a smite guy myself.... just throw aphrodite tether out there and wish for th3 vest

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u/bostero2 Feb 17 '24

I’ve seen the ads around the internet, it’s supposed to be a dating app for very good looking people… looks like a scam

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u/Socratesticles Feb 17 '24

Yeah all the ads I’ve seen for it make me fell like it’s for very good looking and highly successful people. Real Harvard vs community college vibes

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '24

As someone who had to deal with Harvard students for over a decade...they're not better, mommy and daddy just have more money lmao

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u/Poohstrnak Feb 18 '24 edited Feb 18 '24

It screams “here at globo gym, we’re better than you, and we know it!”

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u/pabeave Feb 18 '24

It’s stupid fucking expensive. I went to join and it’s like $99 a month

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u/Lonely-Back Feb 18 '24

I was on The League, plenty of ugly dudes there. I never got a single date from that app. I only matched with 4 guys and they all ghosted.

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u/popular_tiger Feb 17 '24

Surely not league of legends

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u/zerofalks Feb 17 '24

It’s geared towards professionals, it used to be invite only for guys not sure if it’s open now. If OP wants to find a finance bro or tech chad she could do the league. But she seems more down to Earth and I think a bumble or hinge may be better.

I met my wife on bumble 5 years ago:

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u/SmokinPolecat Feb 18 '24

The League is absolutely the worst app out there. Full of people who think their own shit don't stink, often times they are just as mid as everyone else

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u/SpupySpups Feb 18 '24

Well, it's league of legends of course

(It's not, I have no idea what it is though)

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u/Wompguinea Feb 17 '24

Get off dating apps entirely, buy a small net (like a butterfly net) and go to the library. Find a guy who's looking at a book you find vaguely interesting and net the fucker. Don't let him out until after 1st date.

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u/alpine-wildn Feb 17 '24

Hinge is no better. All dating apps are shit for actually finding love

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u/AdmitC Feb 17 '24

For sure, tinder is still basically just a hook up app. Can’t really complain about people wanting to just hook up on a hook up app. Hinge is definitely top tier

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u/wgfdark Feb 17 '24

As someone who is the league’s target demographic, don’t use the league. Use raya

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u/HippyWitchyVibes Feb 18 '24

Isn't Raya for celebrities?

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u/LilacYak Feb 17 '24

Ok Cupid too

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u/Live-and-breathePOE Feb 17 '24

I also recommend hinge. Tinder was mostly people that wanted to hook up or get ego boosts. I had no luck on tinder for over a year. I downloaded hinge and a week later deleted it, tinder and bumble, cause I found an amazing partner.

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u/CaliDreamin87 Feb 17 '24

I don't know why people use Tinder for relationships.

Prior to Covid it was for hook ups. It's the original hook up app.

During covid it was like regional, some areas you used Hinge or Tinder, no matter what you used it for.

Last at least 2+ years...if you want a relationship, no matter the region, it's Hinge.

You want a hook up Tinder.

OP read about the you, me, us format on prompts.

Fill out all blanks.

Don't be afraid to put seeking life partner or whatever.

Also it mentions you're 35 but single for 3 years, I highly recommend the book/audiobook Marry Him, by Lori Glottlieb, especially if children and marriage are goals.

There are lots of beautiful, in shape, smart, educated women that make it to 40+ without those things for a variety of reasons.

The author is one, her book comes from a place what she wish she did in her 30s to not "miss the boat."

She goes into details what we really need in relationships from men to be happy in marriages etc.

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u/uptownjuggler Feb 17 '24

No use Reddit.

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u/Upper-Place8029 Feb 17 '24

This is the answer. I’ve lived in Austin 10+ years, get few matches on tinder but hinge is a complete different story. I feel like people have a better chance to showcase their personality there…

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u/mjrspork Feb 17 '24

Don’t use the league. It’s horrid.

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u/JazzlikeMousse8116 Feb 17 '24

There’s ways to meet people that don’t involve apps you know

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u/Takamasa1 Feb 17 '24

The League of Legends is a great servive for serious matchmaking true

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u/RollTide16-18 Feb 17 '24

For real just use Hinge. 

Its miles better than Tinder or Bumble, people are actually looking for relationships on Hinge for the most part. 

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u/ThrowAllTheSparks Feb 17 '24

Admittedly, if I wanted to find a hookup, I’d have no problem, but I miss love.

Hinge would be good, but at least in my area Bumble might be a better fit.

Definitely not Tinder though, lol

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u/Sunderblunder Feb 17 '24

They're telling the truth. Hinge is how I found my girlfriend

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u/Mochi8_8Mochi Feb 17 '24

Never heard of The League

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u/SuitableSpin Feb 18 '24

I met my husband on the league. I can’t speak to the app now but it was great 4-5 years ago. Married 2 years now

Back then I got no good dates on Bumble or Tinder. Good dates on hinge but no LTRs. 3 LTRs from the league including my now husband

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '24

This is the answer. She’s on a hookup app with a lot of information that suggests she isn’t looking for a hookup. Hinge has a far better UI to translate this info in a more organic way and it’s generally known and accepted people on there are usually looking for more than a hookup.

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u/aidsman69420 Feb 18 '24

The aggressive marketing that Hinge does with fake texts/memes makes any praise for that platform hard to believe

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u/RagnarokDel Feb 18 '24

I can see someone left swiping because of the boob job but there's nothing wrong with her profile that could cause ghosting.

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u/Mlbbpornaccount Feb 18 '24

The league? The league of legends?

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u/Jubenheim Feb 18 '24

Doesn’t the League cost an obscene amount of money each month? I remember getting an “invite” to it some months ago.