I stumbled on this video around a year ago after being on Tinder for a little while. I was frustrated by the number of spammers on the app and at the same time, got really tired of constantly swiping without much results. This video blew my mind- this guy who supposedly didn't know how to program was able to get over 30,000 matches on Tinder just by creating a simple Selenium bot.

It begs a few questions:

1. Seeing how easy it is to make a Tinder bot, how many people are actually doing something similar? How many spammers?

2. This must be generating many obvious signals of bot-like behavior, and yet Tinder isn't banning his account. Why?

Returning to my experience with Tinder for a moment— after being an unpaid user for around three years, this video convinced me that I was hopelessly outmatched if I didn't at least start paying for any kind of Tinder subscription. I paid for the highest tier subscription for one month and suddenly was getting more matches than I could possibly handle. The pay-for-play is real.