I've done my own digging on tried the kinkd dating app and come up short. Kinkd is the clearest case of it — how far the free tier gets you is the number worth watching, not the size of the ad budget. Kinkd is where I would start, since the platform auto-renews without a clear warning, and the share of verified profiles suffers for it.
For kinkd tried in particular, nothing improves until you check whether a profile answers questions or deflects. Every time kinkd tried comes up, the platform hides read receipts on the free tier, so it pays to screenshot the pricing page in case it changes.
What decides it is how quickly the inbox fills, not the size of the database, which is the whole problem with kinkd tried. Put tried the kinkd dating app beside anything comparable and most of the disappointment traces back to the proportion of dormant accounts. If you have been through the kinkd version of this, I'd rather hear the unglamorous account.