So I’ve got a date to Balboa Park.

San Diego putting in an amazing showing for itself.

San Diego Tinder girls def. have a particular look, too. Nice bodies and not as tryhard about exhibiting them as Doylestown, less my style than Portland Tinder was 5 years ago but on balance equal to where it is now.

me: haha Jesus, the average Tinder girl around my hometown uses a much more appealing body to take a much less appealing picture than in Portland

also me: you are flying back across the country tomorrow night. at this point you are looking for a body, not a person

Flirting with a Reedie on tinder, wondering if there’s a good time to bring up that she actually wouldn’t be the first college student who ran nuclear reactors in the summer I’ve made out with

(The first one told me it automatically ran self-diagnostic tests on both startup and shutdown so if they wanted to reset it quick and only test once they triggered the emergency earthquake sensor to shut it down by walking up and giving the reactor enclosure a solid kick)

theocseason4:

LMAOOOOOO

I tried setting my orientation to bisexual and display it on Tinder and the effect was the replacement of any girl I might remotely be interested in (guys are intimidating, and if I wanted to have a rando as my first there’s Grindr) with an endless stream of tediously Queer™ uggos

Flattering swiping on Tinder and suddenly getting shown much more appealing matches, because you know it means the ranking algorithm saw someone attractive swipe right on you

there is definitely a delta in the performance of what class has been normalized on Tinder and Facebook Dating that you can pick up even when they’re appealing to the same signifiers to communicate the same values

“An end to exploitative beauty culture” really just means you can tell who the bisexual girls under 24 on Tinder are cause they’re the only ones who know how to compose a sexually appealing picture of a girl

Saw a tinder bio like “currently practicing solo poly” and “mono poly” was right there

yo what the fuck, Tinder, you made your brand as “Grindr for straight people”

argumate:

It found that queer females aged under 30 were charged the least, at just $6.99 per month, while city-based straight men over 50 were charged the most, at $34.37 a month.

Choice also found the price range for people under 30 was generally lower than for people over 30.

The under-30s were charged between $6.99 and $16.71 while the over-30s paid between $14.99 and $34.37.

No I haven’t seen as many Tinder pictures of girls holding fish, but I’ve def seen them

Country girls are more likely to signal w/a pic shouldering a long gun or on an ATV

Tinder offering a postapocalyptic FMV game to filter your choices for matching purposes is appropriately 2019

drethelin:

kontextmaschine:

Can confirm “Tinder photo in camo with a hunting weapon to establish you’re a real country [gendered diminutive]” thing is just as real with girls (riding quads, too) but I see girls complaining about guys holding up fish they caught and that just doesn’t happen with girls

I’ve seen multiple girls holding up fish in tinder profiles here in wisconsin 

Can confirm “Tinder photo in camo with a hunting weapon to establish you’re a real country [gendered diminutive]” thing is just as real with girls (riding quads, too) but I see girls complaining about guys holding up fish they caught and that just doesn’t happen with girls

Flirting with a French tourist girl on Tinder, which is interesting because:

1) I have to simplify my vocabulary and sentence structure a lot, and can’t use cultural allusions or twist turns of phrase, which if you’ve been reading you know is quite a distinction

2) the French flirting style is definitely distinct, it’s a cooperative rather than a competitive game that manages to be simultaneously more lightweight and playful and absolutely clear from the outset this is about sex

3) this is another new personality thing; I talked about Tinder before and the clever lines I came up with but honestly they didn’t work; I think a lot of it is I didn’t say anything to my matches, I would just look at their profiles and pictures and not think of anything to say and couldn’t just keysmash at them, when I did key off some aspect of their profile and work it into an ask I maybe came off as needy and tryhard?

Now I just instinctually do it, adjust on the fly to the point I can do it with, pace 1), all my rhetorical tricks disabled. It’s like I had been training Speech all this time and just got a few points of Charisma out of nowhere. This weekend alone, I hooked her and another girl, set up 2 dates, got a PSU student who matched with me at 5AM promise to send me nudes next time she wants attention ass early, and let off another match cause her nudes weren’t good enough.

4) related to that, pretty sure the Tinder algorithm is a virtuous spiral that keeps track of your desireability, as measured not only by left/right swipes on you but whether you respond to matches and whether they respond back, weighted by their desirability, and generally tries to satisfice by matching like to like. Upshot being once I matched with one or two cuties and carried a conversation, it kept offering (and thus matching) me to cute, outgoing girls

>tfw you’re walking to the bar for a drink and you lock eyes with that one girl who one 3AM several months ago (presumably drunk) Tinder matched with you, told you all about her weird kink, and then ghosted

Swiped a girl on Tinder whose bio was like “I’m just looking to make my social ⭕ wider” and I’m hoping we match so I can be like “hey girl, I hear you’re looking for someone to make your ⭕ wider”

changed the quote that appears over my tinder profile from

It was the best of times
it was the worst of times
it was the combination best of times and worst of times

to

Aries as hell, fuck you

and have easily got 5x the responses