How i got BANNED on every Dating App

I've been banned on nearly every single

dating app that exists and probably a load

of other apps that I don't even know

exist. So a few years ago, I did something

kind of silly, and through no fault of my

own, I accidentally got myself banned on

Bumble, Tinder, Hinge, Plenty of Fish.

There's a stupid company called Match

Group who owns nearly every single dating

app. They have this massive monopoly over

the dating app marketplace, and I'm just

kind of sick and fed up and tired of them.

This video can be a warning to other guys

who are also thinking, Oh, it doesn't

matter if I get banned on Tinder, if I do

something stupid on Tinder, because I'll

just use one of the other apps. All of the

popular and good apps are owned by Tinder,

and they all share the same database. So

if you've done something really bad on

Tinder, then your name is going to be on

the database, and they'll ban you on every

single other app. Okay, there are other

apps that are not owned by Match Group,

but they all kind of suck, and they're

full of bots, and it's basically almost

impossible to get matches or dates on

them. So I want to explain exactly what I

did that was so bad to get me banned on

nearly every single app, and I also want

to talk about my 2-year-long battle

against Match Group to try and get back on

these apps, and how I met my current

girlfriend even after getting permanently

banned and blacklisted on Tinder and

almost every single app owned by Match

Group. So first of all, I'm not proud of

what I did, and yes, I really regret it

because it made my dating life so much

harder and so much more difficult. I

really shot myself in the foot by doing

this. But anyway, a few years ago, I I was

on Tinder and, you know, something weird

happened. I wasn't getting any more

matches for weeks. I wasn't getting any

replies from any of the people that I

matched with already, and I matched with

like 20 people already and none of them

were replying to any of my messages. So I

thought, huh, this is kind of weird.

Maybe I'm shadowbanned because I was kind

of rude to a few people. I wasn't super

rude, I just told a few people to fuck

off. You know how it is, sometimes you're

on these dating apps and you're talking to

a lot of people and it can get very

stressful, and sometimes you bump into

kind of unpleasant people, and they were

rude to me, so I thought, okay, I'll be

rude back. So at that point I thought,

okay, it's kind of obvious that I'm

shadowbanned because I'm not getting any

new matches. And I'm not bragging when I

say this, but I do get quite a lot of

matches. Okay, not huge amounts of matches

because I look like this. And I thought to

myself, okay, I'm gonna have to make a new

account then since I'm shadowbanned, but

before I make my new account, I'm gonna

have some fun. You know, I just wanted to

let off some steam, vent some frustrations

to some of these women that I had been

talking to for several weeks or even

months. So I started ranting to several of

these girls that I had been chatting to.

For example, there was this one girl who

every time I tried to be flirty with, she

kept talking about her stupid pet hamster.

So I rambled off, typed off this long

message about how I didn't give a fuck

about her stupid hamster. And then there

was this other woman who kept going on and

on and on about her stupid boring leather

bag making class on the weekend. So I just

typed off a long message about how I

didn't give a fuck about her stupid bag.

Now, I thought because I'm shadowbanned

that none of these girls would see any of

these messages because they weren't

replying. It turns out I was wrong because

I actually added the hamster girl to my

friend list on Facebook, and after I sent

off the rude message about her hamster,

she messaged me on Facebook saying, hey,

what's up with the rude messages? And I

was like, oh crap, you saw the messages?

So am I not shadowbanned? So I was really

confused because no one was replying to me

on Tinder, But it seems like they were

able to see my messages. That's why this

hamster girl messaged me on Facebook. So

it came to my conclusion that yes, they

are able to see my messages and maybe they

are replying, but I can't see the replies

because I must be shadowbanned. So I still

thought to my head, okay, I'm definitely

still shadowbanned, so I'm gonna have to

make a new account. Let's have some more

fun. I proceeded to block the hamster girl

on Facebook because at that point it was

just kind of embarrassing after what I

said. About not caring about hamster. And

I thought, okay, I definitely need to

delete this Tinder account and make a new

one. But before doing that, I think it

would be a great idea if I uploaded my

cock as my profile picture. So I uploaded

a nice big juicy picture, a big close-up

of my cock as my profile picture, and

proceeded to message the rest of my match

list on Tinder. And within the next hour,

needless to say, I got Permanently banned.

Completely banned. Outright banned. Big

clear message: your account has been

permanently banned. I wasn't really

surprised. I was expecting this. So I

thought to myself, okay, I'm banned. Time

to make a new account. Turns out it's not

so easy to make a new account once you've

been permanently banned. I feel kind of

stupid saying this, but I honestly thought

all you had to do was delete the app and

then reinstall it and then create a new

account with a new name, with a new email

address, and then I'll be back on Tinder.

It's not so easy. If you try to use the

same phone number or device, Tinder will

automatically ban you again or just say

you cannot make a new account with this

number because you've already been banned.

So I thought, well, this kind of sucks,

but I don't care because I'll just go on

to Hinge and Bumble and use other apps.

Tinder kind of sucks anyway. So I go and

open Hinge and Bumble, and guess what?

I'm also banned on Hinge and Bumble. I got

banned on all of them. All at the same

time, which kind of proves that they all

share the same database or server or

something like that. It's kind of weird

because when I Googled it, it said Bumble

is not owned by Match Group or owned by

Tinder. It's owned by some other company,

some other guy. But I got banned on Bumble

at the same time I got banned on Tinder,

and I honestly didn't do anything wrong on

Bumble, which leads me to believe that

maybe Bumble and Tinder share— have some

kind of agreement to share databases and

lists of blacklisted people or banned

people. And at this point, I was kind of

panicking because I just realized I

shot myself in the foot. I got myself

banned on all of the good apps. Hinge and

Bumble are really good apps, and they're

really easy to get matches and dates. And

dating apps kind of saved my life. I was a

virgin until I was like 21 because I can't

go up to girls and chat to them. I don't

have friends or like a network, a social

network that I can meet women. I don't go

out to bars or clubs because I have social

anxiety and I can't dance and I'm scared

of talking to strangers. Without dating

apps, I have no way to meet women. What,

do you think I'm just gonna go out on the

street and walk up to like a random girl

and say, hey, how you doing? It was thanks

to dating apps that I was able to have so

many adult experiences as an adult man. I

met so many women, I got married, I had

all of these cool memories thanks to

dating apps and going on dates and having

multiple girlfriends. And I just realized

I can't do this anymore because I just got

banned on everything. I actually cried

when I sat there for a while letting it

soak in and realizing what had just

happened. I panicked and thought, I'm

gonna be alone and single for the rest of

my life because I just don't have the

confidence to be able to talk to women

outside in the real world. So after a

while of moping around, I started to

gather my composure and composed myself

and thought calmly, okay, this is

not the end of the world. I can get back

onto these apps. So I spent the next few

weeks researching and Googling how to get

back on these apps, and I found out a lot

of information. It turns out that yes,

these permanent bans are frustrating, but

they're not impossible to get around. So

basically all you need is a new device,

anything that can run a browser,

Fortunately for me, I have a lot of

devices because I'm into tech and

computers and gadgets. So I had things

like a MacBook, a gaming laptop, a desktop

PC, a Steam Deck, and like 4 different

phones that I could make new accounts on.

Plus the phones can download the apps and

also use a web browser to access some of

these dating apps because Tinder and

Hinge, but not Bumble, Tinder and Hinge,

they can be used by just using a web

browser and not having to download an app.

I also have an iPad and some other

tablets, so I had quite a lot of devices

that I could try experimenting new

accounts on. Now, I don't know if factory

resetting the device clears it from

Tinder's database, because somehow Tinder

or Match Group are able to recognize the

device that you're signing up from. And if

they recognize it as a device that's been

on the banned list, then they'll just ban

you straight away. Secondly, you need a

new phone number for the verification

process. This is kind of annoying because

either you need to get like a new SIM

card, get like a £1 pay-as-you-go cheap

SIM card off Amazon that gives you a free

phone number with it, or you just use an

online virtual number which probably costs

like $1 per number. You get a temporary

number that you can receive texts for a

few minutes and you just use that to sign

up and verify your new account. Thirdly,

you need a new email and you need

something that's easy to make a new email

account. Gmail is kind of annoying to make

new Gmails because they keep asking for

this information, but I found something

called ProtonMail, which lets you make a

new account just by entering your name and

a few bits of information. And it's really

simple and quick to create a new email

account. So having all of this, I could

easily make new accounts without much

problems— without many problems. But the

biggest problem was when I would upload my

photos. So obviously, if you upload the

same photo that you had on your profile

when you got banned, they'll find you

again and ban you again. So obviously I

thought, okay, I need new photos. So I

uploaded new photos with my face very

clearly presented, and for some reason

that I didn't understand at the time, I

got banned straight away. Even with the

new photos, my new accounts wouldn't last

more than a day or two. So I thought,

that's strange, how are they finding me so

quickly? It must be because of my face.

And I had this sneaky suspicion in the

back of my mind that they could be using

facial recognition software to find me

again. So I did an experiment where I hid

my face like this,

and I made some new accounts hiding my

face. And surprisingly, the accounts where

I hid my face didn't get banned even after

weeks and weeks and weeks. But the problem

was I wasn't really getting any matches

because who's gonna match me when I'm

hiding my face like a, like a wuss?

People think I'm a loser because I'm not

showing my face and they don't know what I

look like. Now, obviously, I have to show

my face on a dating app, and I started to

Google how to trick facial recognition

software. And there's actually this

program, this piece of software that was

written by some college students in

America. It's called something like Guy

Fawkes Cloaking, and you just upload your

photo and it does the process with the

software, and it alters the pixels of the

photo so that facial recognition software

can't recognize it anymore. But the photo

still looks like you. It's just they've

kind of done something to the image on the

pixel level, and it still looks like you.

So it's not like it's warped your face

around or anything. So I tried this

software and it actually worked. I think

my Tinder accounts and my new Hinge and

Bumble accounts lasted for at least a

month or nearly 2 months, and I got quite

a lot of dates, and I met my current

girlfriend. By using this tactic. But

eventually I did get banned again on all

of them, so it's not like a 100%

guarantee, sale-safe-proof, fail-proof way

of getting back onto these apps because

you will get caught again. But being able

to get back onto these apps for even just

a week or even a month gives you enough

time to get some dates and maybe even find

a new love in your life, which I think is

very encouraging for people who think that

it's the end of the world because you've

been blacklisted by doing something pretty

stupid. I think it's really unfair and it

really sucks that just because you had one

moment in your life where you did

something really dumb and you get punished

for the rest of your life for it.

There's, there's like no way to redeem

yourself or say, okay, it's been like 5

years, I've become a better person, I'm

not gonna do that mistake again, please

let me back onto the apps. No, you just

get like a whole entire lifetime ban. And

this stupid company has a monopoly on so

many of the top 5 dating apps, and I just—

I feel like it's so unfair. They should at

least give you, what, a few years or 5

years and then remove you from the ban

list maybe. But you know, that's what life

is like. We make dumb mistakes and then we

have to suffer the consequences of our

mistakes. But hopefully We learn something

from the mistakes and don't repeat them.

But at the end of the day, I guess I won

because I got a new girlfriend even though

I'm banned on all these apps. So screw

you, Match Group.