Hinge sucks if you cannot see your own competition

Hinge is a Very Necessary Thing if you’re a single dude in his twenties, especially if you’re the type of person reading this blog and living in a big city.

But unfortunately the big unspoken reason why Hinge sucks for the average guy is that he cannot see his own competition. In a supremely right-tailed game like Hinge, you need to see what objectively good-looking dudes look like so you can mimic and learn and larp as them.

But this valuable training data is hidden away by design, so guys try to approximate what they think looks good and consequently find themselves stranded. Most guys lack the self-awareness/taste to build a good profile, and the only online examples they can try to learn from are almost always trash or cringe. The result is that he is stuck iterating aimlessly in mediocrity.¹