[Slickyboy_OG]

I think it was a poster named Samseau (sp?) who called it a while ago - that inevitably the discussion about mate selection/women will become political. He wasn't wrong. 

And yeah, like so many other new things, when dating apps first came out they were huge, but it did not take long before they too went the way of craigslist. Another poster mentioned "those apps are not for you, they are for HER," illustrating the increasingly diminishing returns from such time sinks. All that is by design, if you consider who makes and supports those apps.

There's ways to game them, sure, but your ROI is still pretty slim. Some girl posted her stats from Tinder (not sure how she downloaded them), and the guy who finally hooked up was one of thousands who she initially screened. She wasn't even all that hot, IIRC. Are you kidding me? Get a real life and let them come to you. 

Rich Cooper did a video he called the manoswamp which pointed out what so much of it turned into. Worth a look https:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieAgPosJwHI

I am not at all surprised things went the way that they did; grifters gotta grift.