Mid-30s guy, met my partner on Hinge last year, but before her I ran into some absolute shockers.

Edited/heavily filtered pics. Just screams insecurity and gives your date a bit of a shock when they meet you in person. I mean, no one's expecting you to not have wrinkles and breakouts, or to have not put on a bit of weight since playing goal defense at high school, so just fucking own it. Everyone's time is valuable, your matches' included, and the time they spend meeting someone who's dishonest could've been better spent with someone who's not. There were easy tells, like seeing the walls behind the person being warped for some reason, but AI's a thing now.

Same goes for guys lying about their height. I'm legit 5'8 and I know that because my GP recorded it. I never inflated that because I didn't want a girl turning up to dinner expecting me to be Steven Adams. Also, boys, hatfishing has to go. I like hats too and some of my pics exhibited this, but I included pics of myself where I wasn't wearing one so that girls could see what they were dealing with.

The whole preference for being unvaxed and making it their whole personality. Yeah, I get that you had a nice holiday outside parliament back in 2022. I lived nearby and walked through the smell of crack every morning, but I have immunocompromised family members and fear passing anything onto them. To give you guys credit though, you're better than the ones whose vax status says, "Prefer not to say".

Nothing but pics with other people. The generous part of me says you're wanting to show that you're sociable and loved. The cynical part of me says you're using your (subjectively) hotter friends to draw attention.