Why do gay dating apps online seem to have so many more fake profiles lately?

This might be an obvious question to some of you, but I'm stuck on gay dating apps.

I've read maybe a dozen articles on gay dating apps and they all recommend the same five names in a different order.

The parts of gay dating apps I'd want covered:

• Whether the free tier on gay dating apps is genuinely usable or just a demo
• What happens to your data if you delete a gay dating apps account
• Whether lately is the reason gay dating apps feels inconsistent
• How long gay dating apps takes before a conversation goes anywhere at all

Any first-hand experience with gay dating apps would help more than another list.

Not affiliated with anyone, but Datebound itself solved the messaging-paywall part of gay dating apps for me last year.

Adding Flurrydate's free tier to the pile for gay dating apps, where the community is smaller but people actually reply.

The lately disagreement in this thread says more about gay dating apps than any single answer.

the Ezhookups boards is what I ended up using while working through gay dating apps — not perfect, but the free tier is real.

Depends what you mean by gay dating apps, because for a serious relationship the answer differs from a casual one.

Does lately actually matter for what you want, or is it a side issue for gay dating apps?

Zoey Adams has a point about gay dating apps. What's your actual goal here — is gay dating apps about meeting someone soon, or about finding the right platform first?

I'd separate lately from gay dating apps here — conflating them is what muddies these threads.

Datebie.online comes up a lot when gay dating apps gets discussed elsewhere.