Speaker 1: Flex and Frooms, Flex and Frooms.
Speaker 2: This is the Flex and Frooms catch up podcast. You
Speaker 2: are with Flexi and Free me.
Speaker 3: And the other day my friend broke up with their
Speaker 3: long term partner.
Speaker 1: How long.
Speaker 3: I would say seven years as a b one voice,
Speaker 3: and it's not looking good.
Speaker 4: Brave your friend listening, like, actually, I think I'm quite fine.
Speaker 3: And they downloaded a dating app for the first time ever.
Speaker 3: So I'm sitting with them and I'm showing them the
Speaker 3: lay of the land on this dating app, hinge name Drop.
Speaker 3: They had the standout sections. So this is a section
Speaker 3: where you can give people a rose. There's about ten
Speaker 3: eligible singles they've chosen that you can give a rose to,
Speaker 3: one a day or whatever.
Speaker 4: And it's presumed that this is like the best of
Speaker 4: the bunch, like the pick of the litter, pick of
Speaker 4: the okay.
Speaker 3: A runt freezer. And I'm looking through them and I see,
Speaker 3: oh my god, this is a guy that I've seen before.
Speaker 3: About an hour earlier, I was looking through my Instagram
Speaker 3: story views and this guy had like lovehearted one of
Speaker 3: my stories, which as we know, means obsessed with me.
Speaker 3: And so I clicked into him and I was looking
Speaker 3: at him and like, I was like.
Speaker 4: Oh, do you feel betrayed that he's on dating apps
Speaker 4: when he's liking your Instagram stories?
Speaker 1: Is that the problem?
Speaker 3: And then I was like, I need to get to
Speaker 3: the bottom of this. I know that he's seen my
Speaker 3: Instagram and so I probably have a free pass to
Speaker 3: slide into the dms, not to say that I want
Speaker 3: to date him, but rather to dig further because I
Speaker 3: want to know how do these people get into the
Speaker 3: road section? Are they paying money? Do they know that
Speaker 3: they're there? And so I messaged him and I said.
Speaker 1: You message the guy you recognized?
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I had never seen him before. Here's a
Speaker 3: familiar face though I think he's on TV.
Speaker 4: This feels romantic, like a meet cute like Starcross lovers
Speaker 4: to be like.
Speaker 3: That, all right, I go, hey, f crying on the
Speaker 3: app or on instadms. Okay, my name is Lucinda. What
Speaker 3: do I get? The same minute, I am a massive
Speaker 3: fan smiley space smiley face. I go, ha haha, oh iconic,
Speaker 3: thank you. This is the randomest thing ever. But I
Speaker 3: just downloaded Hinge and went on the rose section and saw.
Speaker 1: You randomt thing ever. Shut This literally never happened.
Speaker 4: I was taking a walk through slum Loord village and
Speaker 4: came across your profile, and I thought, I organized that face.
Speaker 4: So I got out a Slummord village back into Farming
Speaker 4: Princess's house.
Speaker 3: And went to the row section and saw you and
Speaker 3: need to know if you know that they put you there?
Speaker 3: Exclamation mark, question mark.
Speaker 4: This is so crazy because if I was to be like,
Speaker 4: how did you recognize me there and here?
Speaker 1: Now you look crazy. It's not really adding up.
Speaker 4: As like a seamless flow of events.
Speaker 1: It's giving me like this.
Speaker 3: This is where plausible, where plausible deniability comes in. I
Speaker 3: then said, I want to talk about the section on
Speaker 3: my radio show. I mean, if they give you a
Speaker 3: radio show, you use the radio shows ladies. I wanted
Speaker 3: to know if people who are actually in there know
Speaker 3: that they are. Then a screenshot I said, standouts ha
Speaker 3: ha ha, he goes, oh my god, ha ha. I
Speaker 3: had no idea. I wish I wasn't in there, ha,
Speaker 3: I said, king, don't need to be humble, yeah, but
Speaker 3: go off. And then I said, ha, I think it's
Speaker 3: a good I'm going to contact Hinge and see how
Speaker 3: they calculated it.
Speaker 1: Are you the cops? What's going on?
Speaker 4: I found your profile taken a screenshot's evidence. I don't
Speaker 4: want to contact him. I'm going to do everything, but
Speaker 4: ask him on a day.
Speaker 3: And then I said, I thought, I and see if
Speaker 3: someone on there actually knows. First, then I finished, good luck,
Speaker 3: my king, salute, laughing face, and then he said, doing
Speaker 3: God's work for all of us.
Speaker 2: Thank you, and singe.
Speaker 4: So you said I would never go there, but I
Speaker 4: will use your likeness and your information and your experience
Speaker 4: for content.
Speaker 1: Thank you God, bless Flex.
Speaker 3: I'm just giving you the lowdown on F. It's not
Speaker 3: flexing frms. It's a guy starting with the name F.
Speaker 3: And yeah, I can't dox him, but no, you'll know
Speaker 3: who is all right here is recognize this man.
Speaker 4: Flexy ah, not even a little bit.
Speaker 2: Okay, let me mouth it to you.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, okay, got it.
Speaker 3: Apparently he's the same age as us. When I see
Speaker 3: professional people, I think they're way older than me. Just
Speaker 3: bite the fact that I'm twenty four. It's so weird.
Speaker 1: It's my eyes.
Speaker 3: I think that's pretty interesting that they don't know. I mean,
Speaker 3: i'd want to know if I'm in Standouts. Hell, I
Speaker 3: have my profile open for half an hour and I
Speaker 3: start having a fucking panic attack, like, who's who can
Speaker 3: see me?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: What I will say is I assumed that the standouts
Speaker 4: were from the most liked profiles. Oh so like people
Speaker 4: who are receiving a lot of likes are going to
Speaker 4: be in standouts because algorithmically speaking, Hinge wants you to
Speaker 4: keep using the app.
Speaker 1: And so if you.
Speaker 4: Are also serve the most liked person number one, your
Speaker 4: odds of like actually having a conversation slim. But you're
Speaker 4: but because they're like attractive, you're incentiviz to stay on
Speaker 4: the app because like they're like hot. People are here
Speaker 4: and I could talk to them if we match.
Speaker 2: You know what they do?
Speaker 3: Can't confed more toniyd until we talk to a rep,
Speaker 3: and even then it's going to be a slim pickins.
Speaker 2: Let's talk to.
Speaker 3: When you download the app again, they put three hotties
Speaker 3: up the top.
Speaker 2: Then you start sifting through.
Speaker 1: Oh what do you get?
Speaker 3: You know, who aren't my type and people whose type
Speaker 3: I wouldn't be. And then just as you run out
Speaker 3: of likes because you can only like a certain amount
Speaker 3: of people a day, they hit you with a hottie.
Speaker 1: That's incredible, they do it.
Speaker 2: I swear it happened to me.
Speaker 1: I mean, good on them.
Speaker 4: I think what we need to remember about dating apps
Speaker 4: is it's a business model, and a very good one
Speaker 4: at that. It's selling you the prospect of love, which
Speaker 4: I think for most people is what they're searching for.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I prefer the prospect more than the real deal.
Speaker 4: I'd say yeah, because I think if if people wanted
Speaker 4: the real, real deal, you'd go to like a match maker.
Speaker 2: Should we do that? I don't know if they have.
Speaker 1: I need like a government match maker. Give me the census.
Speaker 1: Let me start looking at some things.
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying, Like, I don't want like
Speaker 4: a personality different one. I need like my doctor, get
Speaker 4: my blue book, you know, get my birth certificate. Get
Speaker 4: the sensors and pair me with people. Don't go on
Speaker 4: psychic vibes, not just the stats.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, are you on hinge?
Speaker 2: Are you on any dating apps?
Speaker 4: RYA?
Speaker 2: Is there any good over there?
Speaker 3: Haven't been in a while. No any matches.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but everyone's like dipping in, dipping out babes here
Speaker 4: on tour. You get a nut, you go, you know,
Speaker 4: you get it? Not you go?
Speaker 2: It's too expensive.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but the price of love babe or clout.
Speaker 2: Should I reapply?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 2: You know what, No, I can't.
Speaker 3: It's like twelve dollars of bloody. It's like twenty four
Speaker 3: dollars a month. Yeah, I can't pay for that, not
Speaker 3: for the nut, not for unless it's a premium nut.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 4: If let's see is like LinkedIn, it's like a CV thing.
Speaker 1: It's good for optics to be seen and be seen.
Speaker 2: Do you reckon it is on that? Yeah? I did?
Speaker 4: You know?
Speaker 2: Ray is good?
Speaker 3: I made a really good friend off raya great shout
Speaker 3: out king you know who you are?
Speaker 1: Babes, what's going on? I'm looking at you.
Speaker 4: Something just changed, like your body got snatched. I don't know,
Speaker 4: like something happened.
Speaker 3: So we gotta we're gonna just wait for the Hinge
Speaker 3: representative to figure out the algorithm.
Speaker 1: I think they'll lie, that's for sure. I don't think
Speaker 1: we need to wait.
Speaker 4: I think if we were to speculate for sixty more minutes,
Speaker 4: we'd figure it out. The whole idea is like they're
Speaker 4: selling the prospect of love. I did try something the
Speaker 4: last time I was on Hinge. Where if you Because
Speaker 4: obviously the thought of giving someone a rose is just
Speaker 4: the most insufferable thing ever, very embarrassing. And what you
Speaker 4: often find is it like the hotties are in the
Speaker 4: rose section or the standout sections, and like everybody else
Speaker 4: is in the everybody else section. So what you do
Speaker 4: is you say no to every rose. You say no, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 4: You keep saying no because in the algorithm be like, Okay,
Speaker 4: that's not your type. We'll put the people you like
Speaker 4: in the rose section in quotations, and then all your
Speaker 4: feed becomes hotties.
Speaker 2: We're gonna have to try that.
Speaker 1: I try it.
Speaker 2: It works.
Speaker 3: Okay, I'm going to go back on a dating app for.
Speaker 1: Study.
Speaker 2: Let me just a few more people research.
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