Here's my take
I think the first pic is really good, the one of you smiling on the stairway. It's really good, if you had like 6 pics of that quality you'd be golden I think. Or at least 60% golden or whatever the handicap for people of color on the dating market is these days lol.
The rest of them, I’d think of what the story is that they’re telling.
Smoking and drinking with the bros – it’s a really cool pic for a memory, but I wouldn’t use it on a dating app. Even WITHOUT the smoking it would be so-so dating app pic, but the fact that there’s smoke there just eliminates like 50%-60% of your potential matches. A lot of people don't swipe on smokers - you can make it work if your looks are 10/10 - but otherwise it's a mistake.
The dog pic is alright, but I think you can do better. I mean the dog looks happy and all that, but when I look at the picture as a whole, something is off there. Something doesn’t quite hit. It’s mixture of your expression, your distance from the dog, the positioning within the frame, that your head is cut off, or that you look a little skinny there without muscle. You know, like on a “feeling” kind of level, that picture is alright, but it’s not great. Maybe it looks a bit posed, with that crop. It's going in the right direction, but not getting there.
I kinda like the camera pic actually. If you can re-create it better I think it could be a really good one because it tells a story about you, what you do who you are, etc. And that's cool. People who speak on camera are cool.
About the prompts:
There’s nothing “weird” about being attracted to “open minded and adventurous girls”. So that one kind of contradicts itself.
In the “I really want” one you’re being super honest about what you want to achieve etc. just listing all the things, giving an honest rational answer.
But it’s not… interesting. You know, the vibe thing that Dom was talking about.
It’s actually a really good example of “vibe”, that last prompt.
The point of those prompts is to show off your sense of humor and spark a conversation. Get the girl interested in you. Reveal something about yourself. Sell yourself.
They’re not meant to be answered in a straightforward way. That’s boring. You need to have something interesting, original, and/or funny in there.
And maybe also a little bit weird. But not so weird that your target demographic girl wouldn’t be able to relate to it.
Right now it’s:
- Gym goals: sounds boring generic, everyone does it
- Accountability business: sounds boring, could re-phrase as help X entrepreneurs/people/guys/men take their life to next level through accountability, BUT if you phrase it that way then most people won’t be able to relate and you might come off as a wannabe life coach. Definitely some potential there, but I can’t come up with a good way of phrasing it in a way that is both casual, cool, interesting and relatable. Maybe you can.
- Travel to 2 more new countries: boring, everyone does it
I’d spend a couple of hours researching the prompts like this thing here for example: https://www.emlovz.com/best-hinge-answers-for-guys/ they have some alright ones. Or make a female profile and start checking the guys there, see who has what, what you can apply to yourself. You only need 2-3-4 really good ones.
Research, imitate, then innovate.
I mean even the travel one you can turn it into something more specific. Describing cool-sounding specific experiences that you’re looking for in a country you’re going to, so it sounds like a mini-story that's exciting and interesting.
And why aren’t you practicing your copywriting skills there?
You’re the product that you’re selling, you know your target customer, your copy needs to elicit an emotional response, make the product stand out & feel attractive, so that they pull the trigger. On dating apps that goes for both images and text. It's just short-form and image-focused. Unlike something like boron letters. But the underlying principle is the same. What do people feel when they see it and read it.
Edit: Apologies if I'm being too harsh or critical here, the dog pic might actually be good enough, I'm just looking for points of improvement on your profile as a whole. So when I'm in that "what can be improved state" I try to bring out every single little thing that I see. While ignoring the positives or the good things that don't need fixing.