He Went Viral On TikTok For Explaining The Formula That Dating Apps Rely On In Order To Rate How Hot You Are
A Tik Toker has recently discovered a formula being used by dating apps to bring in millions of dollars.
While claiming they use this formula only to find the perfect matches, how else would they stay in business otherwise?
Inspired by Arpad Elo, an American-Hungarian Chess Player, who invented the Elo Rating System, which was designed to determine how good you were as a chess player, some dating apps decided to use this system as a formula for finding you the perfect match.
The Tik Toker said it best, “dating equals chess, I guess.”
Each dating app will rate how hot you are on a scale of 0-10. So you will start off with a high score just for making an account with the app. This is also known as a new user boost, which helps you get more exposure to other profiles.
Doing this helps the app understand how you stack up to other profiles.
Suppose you have a very low attraction score, and someone decides to swipe right on you; your score will go up. However, if they choose to swipe left on you, your score will decrease.
However, not all swipes are weighted equally.
TikTok; pictured above is this TikToker in his video
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If someone who has a much less attractive score swipes right, your point system will only go up a smidge. But, on the other hand, if they dislike you, your score could go down tremendously.
The same goes for the other perspective. If someone with a higher attractiveness swipes right on you, your score will go up a ton, but your score will drop tremendously if they dislike you.
This is an interesting concept once you put it into perspective.
Here are a few comments that were listed under this Tik Tok video:
“So you’re saying I can swipe left on the hot guys and bring them down several pegs. Interesting”
Here’s one to think about, “Dating apps don’t want you to succeed because each good match means they lose two customers.”
“No wonder my guys aren’t too hot. Yikes.”
Testing the waters out on a dating app is exactly how most people meet today. Especially since the pandemic happened, we are all trying to move forward with our lives while finding a way to hop back into the routine of social norms.
However, when working on ourselves, while being in the midst of finding someone we want to spend the rest of our lives with, should we allow an app to judge us on how attractive we think we are?
@its_zander_j Dating apps use a formula to rate your hotness…? #tinder #hinge #bumble #datingapps #compsci #greenscreen
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