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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

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[–] [email protected] 227 points 1 year ago

This is all absurd, obviously, but:

The new subscription can be stacked with a Plus, Gold or Platinum subscription for access to more features, the company notes.

$499 and you don't even get everything there is to get? You still have to pay for more? What in the fuck?

[–] [email protected] 212 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can subscribe to a hooker for less and have more sex

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

Shit they could probably include travel to an area with legal prostitution and still come out ahead.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I'm kind of surprised that not a single state has yet.

Like the states that legalized weed have made a bonkers amount of tax money while the others continue to lose out to other states or the black market. And oh look, suddenly way less drug crime.

Legalize it, regulate it, then tax it. The Netherlands figured it out. Kind of surprised Nevada hasn't taken their shot. A state could legalize it and watch their tourist and tax revenues skyrocket while likely lowering human trafficking to boot.

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[–] [email protected] 108 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

It’s probably like millionaire match maker where you get matched more with ppl who also paid $499

[–] [email protected] 85 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'm guessing the only purpose of this is to show you have fuck-me money. Which sounds like it might work very, very well.

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That plan better deliver hoes at my address

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

According to the article it'll be opt-out for "some accounts" on the receiving side. God only knows what they mean by that

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

"Tinder Select Ultra Plus" tier membership, I'm guessing.

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If dating apps were barred from collecting any payments besides a one time entry fee perhaps they'd stop all these anti customers practices.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago

Well that's not dystopian at all

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Can we start a fediverse dating app?

I'm currently visiting the Ambien walrus writing this so forgive me if this idea is screwy, but I'd love to create a new space.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It would be 99% dudes. Oh wait

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Jokes on you, I'm into that shit.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sure, I'll start one for you for a meager $498/month

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think you’re massively underestimating the amount of effort required to keep sketchiness off of a dating platform

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm glad I was, continue to be and plan on being married to miss this nonsense.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The "I'm that desperate" batch.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

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.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

For 500$ it better work as a ma'adam in a brothel.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

It just sounds like identifying rich sucker's to be plucked like apples and slaughtered like fattened calves by the trickier woman of tinder.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (4 children)

women are going to start saying they won't match with guys who aren't subscribing to this. I guarantee it.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

women are going to start saying they won’t match with guys who aren’t subscribing to this. I guarantee it.

I assume they'll eventually just pay women to chat with these men.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

members can choose to display their status with an exclusive SELECT badge on their profile.

Now I ain't say she a gold digger...

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This reads like a subscription to bang.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, that would actually be worth the money. This sounds like a subscription to feel like even more of a loser when you still fail to get laid.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


The news was first reported by Bloomberg, and follows parent company Match Group’s earlier confirmation that Tinder would expand its membership options to include a new, high-end product catering to Gen Z users sometime this fall.

Tinder says that less than 1% of users will be allowed to gain access to this premium product, and members can choose to display their status with an exclusive SELECT badge on their profile.

Inspiration for this members-only club within Tinder comes from Match’s July 2022 acquisition of another high-end dating app, The League, which could cost users up to $1,000 per week.

In addition, Select members’ profiles will be shown unblurred in the Like You grid in the app for up to seven days, even if they don’t pay for Tinder Gold or Platinum subscriptions.

The company doesn’t detail how this technology works or how it rates these so-called “exceptional connections,” but one might imagine they include other Select members or those other users liked the most.

To apply for Tinder Select, users must have at least four photos, five interests, a bio with a minimum of 15 characters, show a relationship intent, be photo-verified and, importantly, have way too much money to spend on dating apps.


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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Local Asian massage parlor is like $150 plus tip for full service.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Oh, that is just awful. I for one will never go anywhere near which location again?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

i can't wait until the app bubble implodes

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

ANY day now…

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

This has to be a joke right? Right?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Fuck Tinder

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why do I remember this exact thing existing in like 2016?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

It's sad that there are people lonely enough to pay for this.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's to keep those filthy poors out

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