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Edit: because a few comments make me worry that some are taking this seriously - this meme is a play on the type of hopeless dating posts you might find in less healthy corners of the internet. The joke is a suggestion that the real problem is that one man in the image has some sort of arrow-attracting superpower.

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

No, it's not. It's based on these two things

The latter especially has this widely-misquoted line:

It was determined that the bottom 80% of men (in terms of attractiveness) are competing for the bottom 22% of women and the top 78% of women are competing for the top 20% of men.

Many people understood it as "80% of women go for 20% of guys", but that's not what it's saying.

If you also look at the first article, it has many graphs which speak for themselves

swipes per sex

average number of matches per sex

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

One might argue the data derived from Tinder, Bumble, and Hinge users who also upload their data to Swipestats.io is unlikely to be representative of the general population

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Yeah, that was me, a few comments above lmao