Key Facts (and Lies) for Online Dating in 2025

One of the biggest things we’ve seen and heard is how online dating for men becomes harder and harder. To get laid on Tinder regularly, and to get dates, men need to know what’s what – pay attention to the truth, and cut through the clutter of the lies that are out there. In this article,…

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How Tinder Selfies Can Skyrocket Your Match Rate

Gentlemen, think your top-notch, professionally shot Tinder profile is your ace in the hole? It may be time to think again. As the tides of online dating shift towards authenticity, those pristine portfolio pictures might not be the magnet we once thought they were. In this article, I’m gonna take a look at why embracing…

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The Best (and Worst) Dating Apps for Men in 2024

Alright, lads, let’s face it: the digital dating world is like a sprawling supermarket—aisles upon aisles of apps, each promising the hottest dates, the best matches, and experiences so good they should be bottled and sold. But with such a buffet of choices, where does a guy even start? It’s like being a kid in…

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How To Take Better Tinder Pictures (Average VS Great Photo Examples)

Take Better Tinder Pictures The following is a guest post by Joe Buchoff. Joe wrote this guest post for Alex and Playing with Fire to share the biggest thing he’s learned in his time as a professional dating profile photographer. He’s helped over 100 guys get more matches and more dates by taking better photos…

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How to Get More Tinder Matches

If you’re reading this article, you’re probably wondering how you can get more Tinder matches, because you’re not currently getting the results you want out. In the golden days, it wasn’t too hard to get lots of matches on Tinder. But as Tinder has become more mainstream, it has also become more competitive. Tinder can…

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3 Key Tinder Profile Pics You Need to Get More Matches

Are you not getting the Tinder matches you’d like (or Bumble / Hinge / etc.)? Let’s talk about why. Is it because you are ugly, short, skinny, fat? No matter what you think is the answer – you are probably wrong. The majority of men fail to understand how women use online dating apps. Specifically,…

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How to Get Unbanned from Tinder – Complete Guide

Guide to getting unbanned from Tinder Did you have your Tinder account banned? Trying to figure out how to get it back? I’ve spent a lot of time researching and testing out what to do when you’ve been banned or shadowbanned on Tinder. In this guide, I’ll walk you through the steps of how to…

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Why These 10 Men’s Photos are Bad for Tinder

We’ve covered the best types of Tinder pictures already, so we wanted to take a different angle. Today, we’re going to tell you what makes a bad online dating photo. Look through each example and make sure your Tinder photos are nothing like these! As a man, it’s critical that your pics make you look…

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How Many Matches Should You Get On Tinder as A Man

In this article, I’m going to give you a realistic idea of what kind of Tinder Results you can expect to get once you get a solid profile and understand text game. We’re going to look at likes, quality matches, responses to the opener, dates, and lays. For this experiment, I reset my Tinder from…

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