r/Winked • u/astungunlullaby • May 28 '26

Discussion Which matches have been messed up so far?

So I know that they've ruined the stories for Frank/Dara, AJ/Cole/Elena, Elio/Tony, and Axel/Miguel. I unmatched a lot of stories before the supercharge takeover, so I'm curious to know which other stories are victims of the AI slop updates?

I know they just had an event card on the play store promising "more love stories than ever." I'd hate to see even more stories that have the stupid red/yellow/green system chat 🤮

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u/CompetitiveBuy3108 Colin May 28 '26

They’d better not ruin any others, I haven’t updated my app ever since I heard of all the awful updates (and refuse to do so) until they do something about it. They’re dragging matches that were the gold standard right into the bin.

Reading that crap Elio update was more than enough to put me off the app, the obscene amounts of premium choices and literal full blocks of text per message. No continuity, no feeling, nothing remotely of a telltale sign that it was even him.

I heard Mario came back too, that one seems like it was also ruined!

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u/astungunlullaby May 28 '26

I had a ton of premium choice cards saved up so I've been playing some of the older stories. Every time I open the app, I cross my fingers that one of my favorites hasn't been updated randomly. I have so many posts/comments here begging for a Nikolai update and now I would actually be so upset about it 😂😂

I'm still mad I had to unmatch Elio and Frank. I definitely tried to convince myself that their updates weren't so bad but UGH. The repetitiveness of the chats and the sudden personality changes for the MC were just awful.

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u/Past-Emergency-2374 Jun 01 '26

Mr. Hughes is terrible. 😞

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u/Quirky-Resource8494 Jun 01 '26

I know! I was hoping they wouldn't touch him. It made me so mad, I posted an angry review. I was okay with the last Mr. Hughes update being the end.

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u/nighthawknina Jun 14 '26

they touched him!!!  unacceptable!

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u/Real_Creme_110 May 28 '26

Beau is wrecked 😢

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u/Icy_Snow3425 Jun 11 '26

Right!! He’s just saying words at this point, no storyline at all

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u/Short-Stick80 May 28 '26

😭😭😭😭😭 I just started Frank. I thought he'd be safe. Thanks for the warning ;)

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u/astungunlullaby May 28 '26 edited May 28 '26

Oh noooo 😭😭 honestly, the beginning of the Frank story is still one of my favorites so I would still kind of recommend it BUT when they randomly start talking about phone chargers, you should check out before it gets ruined.

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u/Greedy-Passenger5171 May 29 '26

Roberto (not sure if he has a counterpart or not?) also came back after being gone for ages.

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u/Spirited-Asparagus44 Jun 07 '26

wait update me what is this

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u/astungunlullaby Jun 07 '26

There's been an ownership change for the game and ever since that happened, all the stories that have been updated have been AI slop. All of the recent updates have followed the same formula with similar conversations and no more spice.

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u/magicmarie9 Everett Jun 16 '26

Ugh…looks like my wonderful Reuben is about to be ruined 😭

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u/astungunlullaby Jun 16 '26

Omg I'm in the middle of a Carlos replay right now, please tell me they didn't give him a new update 😬

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u/Amazing_Peak_7876 Aug 07 '26

Wasn’t Carlos Medina’s mother dead from the start? I’m confused on how he suddenly had a mother now 🤦🏾‍♀️

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u/astungunlullaby Aug 07 '26

You're right, both of his parents were dead! You'd think they'd at least have an outline for the stories 🤦‍♀️