More of a long-ass vent than anything, is not having an active Instagram plastered with pictures of yourself and everything you do actually some sort of unspoken red flag? Am I the retard or just unlucky? I'm bi but mention that I am not interested in men. I'm using Hinge and Tinder. I have a few unobstructed, decent or cute pictures of myself on my profiles and lightly mention my hobbies (nerdshit but I don't get into specifics, as well as relatively normal stuff) and like two vague, 'quirky' one liners, but I've been ghosted twice by women in the past few days despite a somewhat promising start shortly after they ask me if I have Instagram and I preface it with something like
>yeah I do! but I don't really post on it fyiThe first time I didn't even get to the exchanging usernames part and the second time I just thought, "fuck it" and sent a link. It's pretty bare in terms of posts and has 100+ followers, but it has my name on it, obviously not some shady throwaway, and I've had it for years. I just use it to post random digital drawings on occasion, follow artists/musicians/college shit, look at goofy animal pictures, and keep up with old friends. I don't put pictures of my face or document everywhere I go on it because I don't feel the need to. Is this some kind of litmus test to measure how socially retarded you are? I just don't care too much about that kind of thing personally and I feel like the universe is punishing me for it.
I'm a dumbass zoomie and try to come off as fairly normal in writing and presenting myself, even though I'm spergy in person. (ie. not oversharing or self-deprecating, don't mention terminally online shit, and I'm genuinely interested in other women's lives, etc.) Further context, I think I range from decent/average to above average/pretty in terms of appearance (depending on personal taste and how much effort I put in), and I'm not a /beg/ tier chicken scratch pencil artist either. It's just fun sketches of shit I like. (Not overly animu moeslop, mostly normal TV shows because I know better than to reveal my cringe level. It's also a public account just because I like it when people find my fanart through tags.)
I'm just bummed because they both seemed fairly interesting and down-to-earth with no pronouns in bio and were my type. I feel like a mega tard. It's so over… maybe it's for the best rn, but it just hammers in the idea that I'm unlikeable or too off-putting.
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