More and more convinced the hardcore alpha approach on OLD just doesn't work in this city for whatever reason. Why it doesn't, I haven't quite worked out.

The girls it works on, it works extremely well (as expected). But most girls just don't seem to respond to it.

Doubt it's a perceived SMV thing. Converted quite a few HB7s and 8s. When they do convert they thirst hard.

Problem with this stuff is you have limited data to go off, and the data you do get is "muddied". Hinge can give you a good benchmark on what photos are performing well.

But you do have to be careful - I find most girls will rarely overtly like a topless photo. But once you've fucked them a few times and built rapport, they'll admit the topless photos were the ones they sent to the girls groupchat, and that's why they swiped.

My theory is that I need more plausible deniability, or at least a bit more dimensionality in the profile.

Gonna tone down the profile a bit with the topless shots. My latest suit photo has performed really well, so I may lean into that a bit more and see how they go. Masculine without showing off might be the meta here.

I'm also thinking I might need to improve the text game. I know generally speaking you can't build attraction over text. But my usual style of "hey" -> "lets grab drinks" might just be coming across as too boring.

Even girls who have opened me with thirsty ass messages are dropping off, which makes me think the approach needs pivoting.

Will try coming up with more tailored, but still low effort openers and see if we get more traction on those.