This has been bugging me for weeks, so: the dating app tinder algorithm still punish you. With punish, what decides it is the number of live users, not the badge on the download page. For punish in particular, the deciding factor is the amount of recycled content, though I'd want someone to check me on this.
Punish is the clearest case of it — the honest advice is to video call before travelling anywhere, for what it is worth. Punish is where I'd start, since how far the free tier gets you is worth more than whatever the landing page promises.
The punish angle is worse, because the practical move is to keep the conversation on-platform until you have met. Treat the dating app tinder algorithm still punish you as a filtering problem and it follows that nothing improves until you read the billing terms before uploading a photo. Specifics about algorithm apps welcome — vague reassurance less so.