So I've exhausted swiping the 27 - 35 pool of profiles near me on Bumble and I've pretty much ruled out anyone age 33+.
I mean, these women just go out of their way to be the least appealing and dateable. Honestly, I don't know why they are on these apps if they don't really want to date anyway. "I hope you care: About Palestine as much as I do" Just endless lists of red flags and reasons they don't want to date you. Another one is clearly looking for that guy with a high paying job but then also wants to somehow tour the world in a camper for a year.
The 24/25 year olds might be looking for sugar daddies or have daddy issues or whatever sure, but at least they are pretty and pretend to be nice in their profiles. I noticed on dating sites they now have age brackets 20 - 40 for their meet-ups. Now I think 20 year olds are too young for me but I can see they need to increase the pool of dateable women that way and I can see why it is better to target younger than older.
Also I think I'm going to switch to Tinder or Boo next because Bumble isn't working well as a platform overall. I'll keep my profile on there just in case someone wants to match with me and I'll try a Spotlight some time after Christmas (I have 3 of those I think).
But in general the big caveats are that your Match only sees your like for 24 hours and she can only see who liked if she pays. You also can't see the profiles anymore after you've liked them (they need to appear in 'the deck' again). There is also no way to tell how old any of these profiles are (only new ones are shown as 'new'), because girls often delete the app but that does not delete the profile. Plus it seems to mostly attract a type of Instagram influencer profile instead of people looking to date. I imagine it also attracts a certain type of men because of that and all these profiles I'm seeing are just trying to tailor to that type of men too.
Tinder as I understood is a mixed bag depending on your area and less curated in terms of bots and escorts but actually shows people that are currently looking to date and are active on the app and that makes it easier to match.
I mean, these women just go out of their way to be the least appealing and dateable. Honestly, I don't know why they are on these apps if they don't really want to date anyway. "I hope you care: About Palestine as much as I do" Just endless lists of red flags and reasons they don't want to date you. Another one is clearly looking for that guy with a high paying job but then also wants to somehow tour the world in a camper for a year.
The 24/25 year olds might be looking for sugar daddies or have daddy issues or whatever sure, but at least they are pretty and pretend to be nice in their profiles. I noticed on dating sites they now have age brackets 20 - 40 for their meet-ups. Now I think 20 year olds are too young for me but I can see they need to increase the pool of dateable women that way and I can see why it is better to target younger than older.
Also I think I'm going to switch to Tinder or Boo next because Bumble isn't working well as a platform overall. I'll keep my profile on there just in case someone wants to match with me and I'll try a Spotlight some time after Christmas (I have 3 of those I think).
But in general the big caveats are that your Match only sees your like for 24 hours and she can only see who liked if she pays. You also can't see the profiles anymore after you've liked them (they need to appear in 'the deck' again). There is also no way to tell how old any of these profiles are (only new ones are shown as 'new'), because girls often delete the app but that does not delete the profile. Plus it seems to mostly attract a type of Instagram influencer profile instead of people looking to date. I imagine it also attracts a certain type of men because of that and all these profiles I'm seeing are just trying to tailor to that type of men too.
Tinder as I understood is a mixed bag depending on your area and less curated in terms of bots and escorts but actually shows people that are currently looking to date and are active on the app and that makes it easier to match.