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https://www.businessinsider.com/tinder-select-new-ultra-premium-subscription-dating-app-match-2023-9
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 $6,000 a year, Bloomberg reported.
“We’re sorry, true love is not available in your membership tier.”
For casual sex, please drink promotional can of Monster® now
If the dating apps can’t provide decent results even once in a while then why would I pay?
“There are several emails from people who are interested, just pay a subscription fee to read them.”
Pays sub fee and find out the emails are just spam.
Yeah I’ll pay hundreds for this.
At what point does this just become pimping?
Yeah, next thing you know they’ll be sliding offers to the most liked people’s profiles offering the chance to become compensated daters if they go out with VIP profiles, no pressure to do anything sexual though, because that’d be illegal.
Honestly, this 500$ 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.
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…
For $500 a month it better put out, and do my taxes.
$500 a month is a lot of horny. It could also host some seriously amazing mixers. (Cue Mitchell and Web’s friends of… bit.)
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.
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.
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), 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 like getting a partner as a goal, instead of forming mew connections. Eventually you may meet someone you click with. After all, people of your preferred gender(s) are looking for others too.
Yes, sex workers will. They’ll make it back in 1 hour.
if someone pays 500 bucks to get a date, then they are getting nothing but gold diggers.
Hookers would be cheaper and easier
These are hookers… just expensive ones
i am not sure but a guy i know had a shit profile, paid money to tinder and not only did they fix his profile real good but got him in the slut slot. the girls were way above his league and some worked in adult entertainmemt…like webcam girls and stuff. not sure if thats a good or bad thing really?! so i’d say big data sets from their users and some mild AI stuff can do magic.
Tinder sucks and their support team is dumb as bricks.
Super effective. It weeds out the 95 percenters!
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Tinder has introduced a new subscription option that costs nearly $500 a month.
Tinder Select is a “VIP” service that’s only on offer to about 1% of the dating app’s most active users, the company says on its website.
Select will enable users to access exclusive features including “Skip The Line,” which allows others to see your profile after you like them even if they don’t have a gold or silver membership, and “Direct Message,” which lets you send someone a message without having matched them up to twice a week.
Users need to apply for the service and must meet the company’s “5-point Select Screen,” requiring a verified photo, “show a relationship intent,” and have four images, five interests, and a biography.
“We know that there is a subset of highly engaged and active users who prioritize more effective and efficient ways to find connections,” said Tinder’s chief product officer Mark Van Ryswyk, Bloomberg reported.
“So we engaged in extensive tests and feedback with this audience over the past several months to develop a completely new offering.”
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which allows others to see your profile after you like them even if they don’t have a gold or silver membership,
How the hell do they expect their app to actually work at all if that isn’t built in???
“Hello yes I have a dating app, it will help you find people to date. The way it works is, if you say you like someone, then they can’t read about you. This will enable you to get dates with all the hottest precognitive telepaths who magically already know about you.”
newthrowaway20@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Tinder, like most micro transaction based businesses, is hunting whales.