Eric Siu argues Instagram works better as a dating app than dedicated platforms, especially for women. The visual format lets women attract matches on appearance alone, while men need thousands of followers to compete. Women with hundreds of thousands of followers vastly outnumber men at similar follower counts.
When you said Instagram is the best dating app, I was like, yeah, it is absolutely the best dating app for women. But when you put it in your context where it's like, yeah, well, the men, you're curating a lifestyle like that makes sense too.
It's so much easier for women because it's such a visual medium. And for better or for worse, it's so much easier to just be visibly attractive as a woman than to demonstrate that you're competent or interesting with pictures. And that also creates this discrepancy where a lot of these beautiful women have hundreds of thousands of followers. Like, if a guy has 5,000 followers on Instagram, it's a huge deal. Yeah.
