Tinder in Japan is quite strange in terms of what comes up, it’s due to the fact that dating culture in Japan is more traditional, people are more conservative, so tinder isn’t really popular, but before I deleted the app, it’s quite strange in Japan, at least in my experience. What I’ve seen is:
* So much face tuning, or heavily relying on photoshop
* Everyone conceals their identity: most of the time their profile is private
* Snapchat filters – so excessive (especially cat whiskas)
* Emoji overload: mainly hearts or smiley faces to redact his or her face, they’re using it like as if it’s magic eraser.
* Aliases galore: as they do not even use their first name at all or hint of their real identity (I think there’s a fear of identity theft so they all resort to using nicknames or random letters as aliases)
* Instead of putting an actual name, instead type A, B, C or any other letter or nickname as a placeholder rather than his or her first name
* Barely any info, interests, very private profile
* A common thing accompanying their picture is: food, pets, etc.
* Common theme for profiles in JP, it’s always half her face instead of a complete picture
* Pictures of him or her, mainly avoiding showing their faces
* Pictures of them wearing face masks concealing their face
* Girls showing off manicure: pictures of nails getting done
* Bot accounts: quite a few, mainly extorting money or straight up catfish / scam
Secondly, I’ve encountered JP-EN language teachers on there (wtf?) as a platform on advertising lessons on teaching Japanese or English, I mean there’s other platforms for that. Even from this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6pE4Td7Uwc), this guys experience with using the app in Japan is quite unique.
In hindsight, what type of content is there upon using the app in Norway? What is a common theme you’ve noticed in a lot of profiles? As a Norwegian man / woman, would you still date a Japanese person despite his or her profile being private, as their face is barely shown, along with barely anything about them such as interests, hobbies or their bio being blank or barely filled in as they’re mainly redact their personal details?
by Affectionate-Mars196