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For what it's worth, this was sugardaddy4me.com, nearly 20 years ago. Facebook was embryonic. Twitter? What's a twitter?

Who wants to go around accusing websites like that of "Hey, I signed up, but all the girls seemed fake"? Some, maybe, but very much the minority.



I'm not talking about users accusing the company of faking them from the outside. I'm saying if that string them along system was real at these modern companies someone inside would have exposed one by now. It would be more than just a leak, it would be illegal, deceptive business practices, false advertising, bait and switch. That's probably why they don't exist. No way all these apps with all these employees over all these years managed to keep everyone who worked on the shady illegal systems from spilling the beans. Uber god view was a huge deal. Tinder having systems and paying people to deceive people so they spend money would land C level execs on the bread line. Maybe it does exist, wouldn't surprise me, but I have doubts since we've never seen any evidence




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