Tinder Launches $499 USD-Per-Month “Tinder Select” Membership::Tinder has rolled out its promised high-end membership, a pricey $499 per month subscription dubbed “Tinder Select,” which includes unique perks like the
That plan better deliver hoes at my address
You got a green thumb zaddy? 🥺👉👈👩🌾
The ability to direct-message others without matching.
So basically your privacy only goes as far as how much other people are willing to pay
According to the article it’ll be opt-out for “some accounts” on the receiving side. God only knows what they mean by that
“Tinder Select Ultra Plus” tier membership, I’m guessing.
Welcome to America friend
Remember: Tinder doesn’t make money if you find love, because then you’d stop using the app. Tinder’s goal is to keep you using the app as long as possible by dangling the possibility of success without ever delivering.
For 500$ it better work as a ma’adam in a brothel.
members can choose to display their status with an exclusive SELECT badge on their profile.
Now I ain’t say she a gold digger…
But she ain’t datting no broke ninjas
It just sounds like identifying rich sucker’s to be plucked like apples and slaughtered like fattened calves by the trickier woman of tinder.
There are people so desperate for a fuck that they will pay this money. Will it solve the problem that the number of (real, existing) women on such platforms is lower than the demand? Probably not.
It’s sad that there are people lonely enough to pay for this.
IAC/Match Group owns this space and at this point the cash grab is so openly brazen. I hate it. Part of the reason i’ve folded on online dating and dating in general.
Have more info on that? Are most owned by the same company?
The “I’m that desperate” batch.
Oh not even that. Back when I used Tinder in 2019, and you were a guy, you pretty much had to buy Tinder gold or whatever it was.
Tinder limit your swipes, intentionally showed you dead profiles, and some other shit I forget.
Same with older people. If you’re older, Tinder costs more.
Tinder is a predatory app. They benefit from you NOT finding a match.
I know there’s no laws that allow the people of the USA to prosecute companies for business models that destroy the fabric of society, and I even fear that kind of law could be abused to prosecute abortion clinics and LGBT rights orgs…but dating apps make me wish there was.
Andrew Tate…PUAs…Red Pillers…it all only makes sense in a world where dating apps are the primary way we meet people.
I’m back on the dating scene in my early 30’s and I try to be hostile to their algorithm by force quitting and leaving the app closed which seems to trigger it to try and be more engaging.
I also tried gold only to have my filters just not work. Why would I be interested in matching someone 6000km away or someone with kids even though I’ve tried filtering them out? Ask Tinder I guess. Why would I pay for a service that doesn’t even work. Now that I’m not paying the “likes” seem to roll in even though I frequently run out of users for my area.
As someone who’s never used it, what features are there that get paywalled? I have a very naïve idea about what it is like.
Last time I used it, things like seeing who liked your profile and super liking other profiles (normally you get limited number of those and they indicate that you’re really interested), and seeing who viewed your profile.
One major issue is that Tinder is full of bots. The company doesn’t sanitize it cuz it’s in their interest to have men feel like there are more women on it than there actually are.
Well I’m glad I never got into it. Everything about that just feels icky.
Maybe I’m just old, but I like the idea of meeting in real life and progressing from there to be preferable rather than meeting because of an app. That puts the first real life encounter in a weird context, so I think it’s so much more natural if you encounter them genuinely first and then get attracted to each other just a better system overall.
I mean I guess it can work out, but it just seems extremely uncomfortable all around.
Well that’s not dystopian at all
If you are at the point where paying $499+ a month looks like the only way you’ll ever have a significant other or even just sex just invest that money in therapy or drugs or a super high end sex doll or a high class hooker but not in fucking Tinder. Jesus.
Why do I remember this exact thing existing in like 2016?
Because in 2016 it was a huge deal when they introduced a $5 monthly subscription for a few perks.
Now a $500 subscription triggers about the same level of response because we’ve all been worn down by subscription fatigue so much, so no one is really surprised, but we feel like we should still be really indignant and mad about this.
Subscription fatigue is real. Went to a PF Chang’s yesterday and the host’s desk had a sign inviting guests to sign up for their subscription to “preferred customer” service, something like $40 a month, to get ‘priority seating’ and drink specials. Screw that!
I’m glad I was, continue to be and plan on being married to miss this nonsense.
Yeah. Few decades married over here too… Until last week. Still not paying for crap like this, but damn was that same joke not funny on Monday.
