From what I've seen around the net, many people have this fat and trans "bug" happen first for a lengthy period of time soon after joining before it "gets to normal."

For a few others (including myself), it just randomly starts happening one day then goes endlessly. (Some have stated that they eventually got through the long "wave" of endless back to back to back fats and trans and have returned to normal).

There are also the group who say the waves come and go.

Therefore....... Not sure what to conclude. If the people saying it's our pics or our own profile causing it, then I am very amazed at how great our profiles and pics can be one moment and how terrible they can suddenly become the next... like a stock market share... to cause such a back and forth fluctuation. If it is a result of ELO score, then still, something needs to be fixed if the score keeps having dramatic fluctuations out of the blue for those of us in the US and UK seeing the long extended waves of fat men and women.

If it is profile pics as you're trying to indicate then there must be an incredible amount of men and women across the US (and apparently UK as well) who need to change their pics.

Also, not sure what kind of bug exists all over the US and UK, affecting what men and women for over a year, with a few years worth of complaints and concerns about it easily stacked up in quick google searches with no one in charge thinking to do something about it.

For people who are naturally attracted to obese women and men, I'm sure they're having a field day with this. That is, of course, unless the ones who want to see fats are not getting to see them because they happened to have used the "right" pictures lol.

I could see if only a few people were complaining that it may be their fault and understand people blindly assuming and blaming others with authority without doing any actual research first. But, when I see men complaining, women replying with complaints of getting the same results on their end, and people in London also thinking that it is a bug only concrntrated to their area, it lets me conclude that this is happening to an unusual amount of people for some unexplained reason.

If it is a bug, then I question how serious the owners (or the new owners) of Hinge are to just sit there, be aware (or somehow unaware) of this and do absolutely nothing for years. When it gets to a point where many people online have discovered and come up with their own technique for fixing a "bug" and the developers still aren't even aware of any bug or seemingly don't care, one must question the people behind the app.