Dating : Greaux’s Tinder Journal #2

It’s been five days since I published the first entry of this journal, and already things have begun to change in a significant manner. While I’ve managed to become more intimate with the app and its functions and features, sadly nothing has come of it yet. But that is for the end.

To begin, let’s start with a general overview of my stats as they’ve changed from last time. As a reminder, this is how they looked before:

Swipes: 500

Matches: 5

Unmatches: 1

Messages Sent: 5

Messages Received: 0

Likes: 11

As of 7/7/2019, these are the current stats:

Swipes: 1100

Matches: 10

Unmatches: 1

Messages Sent: 10

Messages Received: 3

Phone Numbers: 1

Likes: 39 (6 women; 33 men)

These swipes and matches come with a few caveats, as well as follow a somewhat different methodology than before:

• I swiped in three locations using Tinder Passport: Tortola in the British Virgin Islands, San Juan in Puerto Rico, and here in Orlando, Florida.
• Out of 10 matches, 3 responded, and only one was willing to give his phone number (more on that later).
• Out of the likes I’ve received, only 5 of them were women, and they were all roughly 5,000 miles away from me. Two of them were close to my location. The rest were men, of whom were also 5,000 miles away, with some being close to my location. It should be noted that I had received 16 likes after changing the settings in my profile to be shown to everyone, as opposed to just women. However, because Tinder shows new accounts to everyone at the beginning, it’s safe to say that most of my likes came from other men. I conjecture that this is due to several factors, such as my sub-par photos (more on that later), the gender ratio of Tinder, and to me downright unattractive.
• After playing around with my photos, I ultimate chose to narrow it down to two photos: me looking toward the camera with a straight face, and the first photo of me smiling. I have not used a service such as Photofeeler to receive feedback on my photos. I recently got some professional shots taken, and as such, should be able to change them soon. I also plan on asking some of the women I’ve met in real life for feedback on my pictures.
• I tended to swipe in bursts of a few minutes in the afternoon, rather than in a set interval. I also made sure to keep a 40–70% swipe ratio in order to ensure that the algorithm does not lower my ELO score. I counted my swipes for documentation purposes.
• In my bio, I simply have my height listed, as well as a link to my Instagram (@the_waden_g ) and a short witty sentence; nothing too long, as I intended on creating an air of mystery around myself.

So far, I’ve been talking with three people: a twenty-something professor from a college, an eighteen year old makeup artist, and a twenty-something girl that was local to my area. For obvious reasons, names and anything that could be considered identify is withheld, and from here on, they shall only be referred to only by their nicknames.

The College Professor ended up liking my profile; after swiping right on him, I managed to have a great conversation with him about Dark Souls, what he does, among other things. I gave him my phone number, and although he wanted to meet for dinner, I had already eaten, and didn’t feel comfortable going out to meet with someone I had just met. I followed him on Instagram, and hope to get to know him better.

The Makeup Artist turned out to be somewhat of a bust; her responses were short and curt, and for the most part, I had been the one to carry the conversation. From what I could gather, she just wanted to talk to me, and do nothing else. After giving her a compliment, I went for the phone number, but she deflected and said that she didn’t have to go to sleep. I’ll try again at a later time with her, but so far, it looks as if that it’s unlikely that I’ll get the number, let alone even giving her a chance to meet up.

The Local Girl talked with me for a little bit, giving the same short responses, but it turns out that she was at work. We talked briefly about rappers and what not, but the verdict on this remains to be seen.

It should be noted that I’ve yet to use any of my Super Likes, or even my Boost yet; I’ll probably save it for a serious time when I feel inclined to not sign up with Tinder Gold anymore, or if I’m going to close my account for good. When that happens, I’ll swipe right on every single profile that I see within a fairly close radius and go for any last minute numbers.

At this time, I would like to spell out the end result of this whole endeavor: to either get a hookup, or to find a friends with benefits situation. If I get a girlfriend out of it, that would be even better. Though, with how things look now, it seems fairly bleak. However, things may very well change soon, and when that happens, I’ll be right here to bring you an update to my story. Here’s to my success.