I feel like women are becoming more hypergamous than ever,

yes

dating apps are essentially dead.

dead for who?

Even for geoarbitrage: An average guy might have gotten a lot of matches in Southeast Asia and Latin America around 5 years ago but now it is hard even in those places. Women everywhere are running around in skin tight leggings, sometimes these chicks are not even 18. So everywhere you go is basically sexualised. And this is getting more, not less, due to Tik Tok and the likes frying the brains of the new generations. So, are things overall getting worse for dating and society?

Yep

I don't agree. Life can be rough all around. Most of the guys that are successful here don't have time to worry about this bullshit. If you watch too much YouTube or even read some of the content here, you'll find guys stuck in the anger phase. A lot of people with the doomer mentality are usually the loudest and most butthurt.

It takes no creativity or strength to be pessimistic. It's part of the herd mentality. Confirmation bias will keep you stuck on angry. Ask yourself if you want to be known as the angry guy?

To strictly answer your question and not offer a goo-goo-gaah-gaah response of spiritual and "I'm actually an alpha bro, the problem is you" bullshit response, yes, things are getting worse and the pendulum does not swing back.

Now, if you use dating apps, you are already cooked. Dating apps have been dead for a few years now and are full of bots, prostitutes, sugar babies and anti social women. Stop using dating apps and build opportunities to meet women in social life. Be around people and social activities/contexts.

You should also stop visiting this forum, more spergs and losers here than anywhere else. Stop watching red pill youtube content. Stop listening to losers like Aaron Clarey (who admitted he does this to profit off of black pill losers to make him some good bank), Rollo Tomassi who is a fucking Karen nowadays.

At most, if you want to keep up with some things here, check Archwinger's substack and Rian Stone (old school RP creators).

In 2025 and onwards, the key to not losing your mind is to be more offline and severely limit access to internet outside work and useful stuff on your laptop/phone or any other device.

Also, realize that there is a mainstream war and RP sphere war going against gen Z young men.

They bullshit about how gen Z men are weak and pathetic and cucks. I work with them and I am around them most of the time, and they are fucking slaying it. Many lay pipe like there's no tomorrow and many of them actually fuck older women, like wives and shit.

So be aware of any advice you receive on the internet from fucking gen X'ers and boomers, because they are not on your team. At the best, they are jealous of the opportunities you have and the period of abundance you've been born in, contrary to their loser timeline in which they had to discover basic life facts about women at 40 yrs old+.

Be more aggressive in real life with them as well. Don't get bullied by these old farts. I see them in the gyms and these fucking old timers are getting punked around by the zoomers like they own the fucking gym or something.

Some say it's a bad thing, I say fuck them. These old shitters who are in fact terminally online think that the zoomers are like some cuckservative presents them on Youtube, then they get smacked in their fuckin' mouth by one of them out of nowhere, only to realize the world has changed and they got left behind.

Same answer I gave you at The Hub on the trp.red side of the site:

I was coming of age in the late 1990s and early 00s.

Women were just as slutty back then.

People who came of age in the 1960s and 1970s assure me that it was the same back then.

Human nature doesn't change.

Only technology and culture do.

So, are things overall getting worse for dating

No.

and society?

Yes.

Just focus on what you can change/affect. Get off the apps and approach IRL. Stop looking for lil' Miss Wholesome (who doesn't exist) and just get laid.

Dating apps are not dead they work perfectly well for the majority of people who apply TRP.

If you are not successful it is because YOUR PHOTOS ARE SHITE. and YOUR CHAT IS SHITE.

The cognitive dissonance people experience is crazy "Oh I am not getting any success... IT MUST BE THE APP..." no it's you. Learn how the algorithm works, get good photos.

Things are evolving, you're getting older,not just physically but mentally you're failing to keep up with the times, becoming an alarmist and misjudging the newer trends for being too out there, too sexual. In the 80s there was also loads of leggins and camel toes.God forbid you showed some heels before the 60s.Every generation has its group of people that say things are out of control. I got my first internet access around the year 2000,aged 12, and it still was developing and not everyone has access to it. Fast forward 20 years and 4 year olds are glued to tablets, not unlike 22 year old glued to their phones.

I'm pretty sure someone was saying kids brains were frying because of Game Boys and Nintendo in 1998, teens growing violent and possibly into drugs with metal music and up to no good in the arcades.

EDIT: I did use dating apps to some success before the lockdowns. I used them a couple months ago and it is trash, complete trash, women asking me for money before we even meet, entitled single moms, fatties and very old women looking for cyber buddies. Also, most apps have paywalls which won't let you use them to its full potential.