• Beesbeesbees@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    How it felt when I spent 5 minutes on hinge. I swear every person I saw on the guy side was very maga-esque. The glasses, the hat, the fish, the trucks, the balloon animal muscles.

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      9 days ago

      Honestly I have to wonder how much of that is some weird type of bias. Like how many guys avoid that shit like the plague so as to not risk association, like I look like the uncanny valley version of that stereotype and avoid that shit like the plague. Mind you there’s also the paranoia and general insular fuckery of my own to factor in but still I wonder if anything statistically or socially weird is factoring in.

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        9 days ago

        I considered this as well. It is a good point, so I read profiles. Many/most were self-identified as conservative , libertarian, moderate, non-political, or religious. In my area they’re almost guaranteed maga.

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      9 days ago

      In the fives minutes I spent on Hinge all the profiles of women I saw looked like some wannabe instagram influencers. Deleted my account after those five minutes.

      • Beesbeesbees@lemmy.world
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        8 days ago

        Yeah it’s like we had the same experience essentially. I guess they are designed to keep you single but that experience makes a lot of us nope out fast.