What photos actually work on dating profiles, and what kills your chances
Fabrizio Rausa met his girlfriend on Bumble and describes his winning approach as posting shirtless photos and photos with friends, so he did not come across as antisocial. The broader point is that your pictures need to signal the shallow but real attraction cues: physical effort and a social life. To illustrate what not to do, he references a widely shared case of a man who swiped right over two million times on Tinder across roughly 1.8 years, amassing around 2,053 matches but landing only one date. The man's profile featured a photo holding a fish. Fabrizio's take: no woman is going to see a man holding a fish and feel attracted. Displaying that you caught food is meaningless as a status signal in the modern world. Even if you are not conventionally attractive, playing your cards right with the right photos can change your results entirely.
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