Tinder thinks some people will pay almost $500 a month for more ‘efficient ways to find connections’ with its ‘VIP’ plan::Tinder Select is only available to some of the dating app’s “highly engaged and active” users, and it’ll cost about $6,000 a year, Bloomberg reported.

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    If the dating apps can’t provide decent results even once in a while then why would I pay?

    “There are several emails from people who are interested, just pay a subscription fee to read them.”

    Pays sub fee and find out the emails are just spam.

    Yeah I’ll pay hundreds for this.

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    At what point does this just become pimping?

    (Surely they could make even more money by compensating people who are more in-demand for their time …)

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      Yeah, next thing you know they’ll be sliding offers to the most liked people’s profiles offering the chance to become compensated daters if they go out with VIP profiles, no pressure to do anything sexual though, because that’d be illegal.

      Honestly, this 500$ a month thing is just sad, because it’ll definitely work (financially), and Tinder will do some shenanigans with the algorithm to make it seem a little worth it, and it’ll just definitely not be worth it to the people paying 500$ a month.

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        Most of the people who are going to pay for it, are the ones who the algo has buried so hard they get shown to no one. So it will sadly give them fat better results…

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    The best thing I’ve ever done with my mental health is stop chasing the idea that being with someone is the key to happiness. Things like tinder just prey on insecurities with false promises.

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    Yes, some people are unfortunately desperate to find love.

    Tinder is absolutely not the way to do it, but they’re emotionally susceptible to this sort of manipulative abuse, so…yeah. Tinder will rake in the cash.

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      This really showcases the perverse incentives of the profit motive, how it corrupts even what humans consider the most precious thing. And this is why I will never use a commercial dating app. It’s FOSS or bust. I’ll just make friends and find people other ways.

      Even a subscription to a dating app very obviously shows where their incentives lie. How can a subscription ever work when the goal is to find someone… and stop using the app? They are not incentivized to have people find someone. They are incentivized to keep people desperate. They are incentivized to not have them find anyone, and keep telling them “it’s just chance! You’ll find someone eventually! You don’t want to die alone… do you? You do not want to be a sad little loser without anyone… do you? We even have these paid things to increase your chances…”

      It’s downright fucked up.

      Not to even mention the whole gross things like having to “market yourself”. Removing all of humanity from the experience and instead treating yourself like a fucking product.

      And the truth is, in my experience… it’s really not that hard to meet people if you just work on becoming a better person (which isn’t easy, to be fair, but necessary, especially since you will struggle with getting much out of love if you don’t), and are actually getting out there. Just meeting new people and friends without much expectations. Whether it’s on a friend’s party, board game night at your university, or whatever interests you have. Because too often I think people just don’t meet many new people in general, and just treat getting a partner like a goal, instead of forming new connections. Eventually you may meet someone you click with. After all, people of your preferred gender(s) are looking for others too.

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    2 years ago

    if someone pays 500 bucks to get a date, then they are getting nothing but gold diggers.