POF : Need your honest answer… About catfish!
I’ve tried a number of sites over the years. It used to be great a while back. Actually managed to get a few dates and even a few relationships. All that changed not long after and now I don’t receive messages, at all. Ok, maybe one or two but no where near as much.So I decided to run a bit of a social experiment the other day and try something out.
I keep hearing people say you don’t get responses on these websites unless you look like a Greek god with the body all chisled out or youre flashing a shed ton of money. I found this pretty shallow, figured I’d see if it held some truth to it. So went to tinder and setup a profile normally first. By the end of 24 hours I had 12 likes. Modest! No complaints (haha wait for it)…. But figured lemme just try something…. Deleted the profile I had up and replaced it with one with a catfish photo. You know the footballer type, big arms, all that jazz…… Well holy shit! By the end of 24 hours I had over 70+ likes. First day, alone! Talk about the difference in night and day. Tried it on a few other apps and got pretty much the same results….
Now the question I wanna ask you is this. Have you ever tried catfishing on these sites or in general? Would you ever consider doing it?
By. Yagyubagna
I tried it on Tinder and got little to no difference between my pictures and the Italian male model’s pictures. I made sure to not pick someone famous. I was actually surprised.
Just pay attention and notice how the women on these sites hide all of their flaws. Almost all of them are basically catfishing anyway. Two wrongs don’t make a right, but there are ways to even the odds. One tip that I learned was to have a friend who’s a woman write my profile, and then to pick put of few decent items of clothing, and then to do a quick photo shoot. It worked
it’s the same on both sides. How many times have you swiped right merely because the girl you looked at was cute without seeing anything intriguing in her photos or her profile?
tinder in particular is designed to be surface only though, your profile is limited to barely 2 paragraphs if you consider elementary school paragraphs of 3 sentences.
However as this is a pof subreddit, my question still stands.
You don’t need to have an awesome body. I’d be average at best. I don’t message for game or success rate. I just message people that i find physically attractive and who have profiles that resonate with me, which usually means it’s thought out with similar interests.
literally 90% of the time, that cute face with a short blurb is a fake bot account. I even made a nice reply to a one liner with a long profile, and her reply was « do you have skype? » i blocked her ass right after lol.
point is, of course an attractive person is going to get more likes, however many conversations you miss because of your looks or lack of looks doesn’t even matter. All that matters is the connections you can make. I’ve only sent ou maybe 15 messages total this past year, 2 ended up being awesome connections over the summer and i keep in contact with both, sadly neither was long term, but more so because they were just visiting.
If anything i’m more disappointed with the lack of quality profiles beyond « just ask » or a few sentences.
So, you decided to LIE on a dating app. You suck, the end.