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HanOfTheNekos posted...

There's also something to be said for making your main profile picture related to your favorite hobby.

I got a date with the hottest chick I met on bumble because she saw I taught marching band.

If you're into board games, DND, bowling, hiking, bouldering, throw that on there, front and center. That's going to improve your chances of finding someone who actually likes the things you like.

and go figure, that's pretty important when it comes to dating

This would be my biggest piece of advice, yeah.

If not your main profile pic, then at least somewhere on your profile you should have at least one prompt and picture that do this sort of thing. And you've unfortunately gotta do it with the understanding that it's maybe gonna filter out a large portion of prospective dates if they're not into it. It may decrease the quantity of connections you make, but it'll certainly improve the quantity.

Video games and other niche nerdy interests still have a bit of a negative stigma for guys in the dating world, and there have actually been studies showing that women find men less desirable on dating apps if they have pictures of them with cats instead of dogs. But hey, I like video games and cats. Better that my potential matches know that up front instead of learning it on a theoretical first date, and I don't really want to be with someone who thinks I'm less "manly" or whatever just because I'm a cat person anyway.

I never got many matches in my time dating online, and I'm sure I could've increased that number if I'd chosen other aspects of myself to emphasize instead of things like those. It was definitely rough on my self-esteem at times. But eventually it got me a woman who also likes video games and cats and spending Friday nights on the couch at home, so it all worked out in the end.