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Around 6 months ago I made a profile on Kippo, the 'gamer dating app'.
Because of the gaming centric focus, you either can't or have to pay money to filter by things that might actually make sense for a dating app (religion, political beliefs, do or do not want or have children etc)...
... But what everyone lists is their favorite games.
So I made some basic rules: Hard No for anyone who lists League or other games that are notorious for the extreme community toxicity.
... And LoL being a Nope filters out about 80% of people.
I no longer have a profile on Kippo.
Well that sounds like a terrible idea
shouldn't it just be grindr, since gamers are mostly male?
nb : yeah, the 70year candy crush grandma doesn't count. depictMeAsChad.jpg
Maybe 20 years ago.
I hadn't heard of this app, but it sounds like it's even worse than standard apps, which are already a shithole and waste of time. I wonder what the skew is there as well. I bet it's something like 95% men, 4% bots/sex workers/scammers, and 1% women, lol.
At one point it, like years ago, it was only kind of shitty...
Then 2 things happened around the same time:
Kippo decided to just abandon improving the actual profile/matching system, and decided to turn the app into basically habbo hotel. It does not work well, and they started monetizing more heavily to pay for developing this, stopped improving the dating profiles and matching completely.
AND
Tons and tons of girls (18 or barely older) began becoming EGirls/TwitchThots, realizing being pretty and playing some popular game was a great way to get simps. Many, many of the profiles on Kippo now are just obviously this, with links to their Twitch or OnlyFans, only playing games that have huge audiences on Twitch.
It used to have a lot more genuine people on it.
Interesting, I didn't realize it was around that long, though I don't use dating apps so I'm not the most plugged in. I'm really not sure how they continue to exist, honestly, but I guess people are hopeful they'll pan out for them one day.
The even more insane one is the 4chan dating app... Duolicious or duos or something.
I've never heard of it but I can smell it from here.
That has to be up there with "worst ideas I've ever heard," lol. I don't know why you'd want to invite that digital hellscape into your real life.
Worst part is that it got hacked and leaked so all the profiles are public info with name, picture and location.
I dunno there is the dating app were it's supposedly only has famous people on it and you pay and submit an application to get likely lotteried to maybe but probably not go on a date with one of the like 5 famous guys on there I think they pay to be on there.
Is there like a must have? Like must love Helldivers II? Liberty lovers only? Managed Democracy 💪?
I mean, I had Fallout New Vegas, Deus Ex, Squad, Humankind, some others.
I think in all my years on and off using Kippo I saw a single woman who listed FNV.
Never saw any for Deus Ex, for any shooter game that isn't a hero shooter, never any for a 4X...
I never once came close to finding someone with a similar taste for games as myself.
Basically it would either be:
Twitch Girl who plays all the popular on Twitch games. Also does OnlyFans. Also is not looking for dates, just simps.
Awkward Shut In Girl who plays Stardew Valley and Pokemon and Animal Crossing. Only has pics of themselves in a hoody seemingly right after waking up, a bunch of their poorly drawn OCs, and a bunch of their pets. ....Waaay too many pets.
Random person who has only played like 3 games that are over 15 years old and hasn't updated their profile in seemingly 10 years, is never online. Has a decent selfie, a pic of either a bong or a 40, and another pic of some random place they were at a decade ago, seemingly taken either by accident or while drunk/high.