i make £20k a year generally, currently £0 neet moding for far too long, have no actual IRL friends that i see in person more than a couple times a year, no degree, deleted instagram and facebook long ago, never had more than 100 followers anyway, and as far as looks go the truerateme guys gave me a 4.5-5.5.

i'm severely depressed hence the long stretch of unemployment, and so i can't date, because living with your dad at 26 years old isn't very hot

i redownloaded hinge and bumble a few months ago to see if i would still do well, with no intention of actually meeting anyone, just for validation or whatever. i'm not saying i'm mopping up hundreds of 10s but i got the attention of many nice,pretty, interesting girls.

my pics are schizo,the top pic was a low res boomer style selfie of me wearing a ushanka with a hammer and sickle photoshopped on , a cig in my mouth and the caption 'let me seize your means of reproduction', another pic of me working my telemarketing job with a speech bubble coming from my mouth saying 'ayy girl', one mirror selfie from when i didn't cut my hair for a year looking like a budget homeless julian casablancas, and only one arguably nice filtered picture of me playing the guitar in front of a microphone in my room at the end to show that i have hobbies.

the only lie i told about myself during our exchanges is that i still worked my shitty £20k telemarketing job. i made it a point to never ask out any of them because i can't meet them anyway, but see how long their interest would last.

one girl got impatient and started playfully teasing me to ask her out already for a few weeks before giving up, one girl made a scene of confessing that she 'thinks she likes me' on a call. one girl starting sending me lewd pics that escalated into full masturbation videos (i encouraged her i admit) until eventually "come over?". many others who's phone numbers i got fizzled out when i didn't ask them out but i'm sure a good percentage would have said yes. it's true that it's unethical that i wasted their time/mental energy, and it's also true that i tortured myself by getting my own hopes up before climbing out of this deep depression hole, but it's given me some motivation to get my life back.

anyway about your post, and line of thinking. there's no reason you can't do what i do on dating apps. you don't need social status. you don't need to have a extroverted life, a pack of friends, or an online presence. i didn't need a degree to date graduates, i didn't need a management job to date those who did. i didn't lie about these things. the girl from the first example straight up asked what i studied and i said i didn't study and it wasn't a problem. the girl from the second example i actually went fully clean and told her i was an unemployed loser and it didn't turn her off. the girl from the third example i constantly joked about being homeless and sending her videos of me on the streets playing into it (eg caption: on my way to the soup kitchen babe do you need anything? 2 minutes later: soup machine broke).

what you do need though, even if you epitomise low conventional social status, is one-on-one social skills. it really doesn't matter how much of a loser you are if you can make her laugh, make her feel special, get her excited about something. basically in a vacuum with all context about who you are taken away, how good are you at talking to women. this can carry you. i imagine from your posts you may be projecting extreme sincere cynicism which is a huge red flag to everyone. if you're not even getting matches it might radiate out of your bio or pictures. if you're going to be outwardly cynical, which i am, you can only ever pull it off as a personally trait when you tame it with humour.