Am I Too Ugly To Find Love Online?

I tried to hack the Hinge algorithm, and it didn’t go well

‘It’s like shopping for people,’ a cool friend in New York told me over a decade ago while explaining the online dating trend that would eventually travel across the pond to the UK. 

The first time I joined a dating website was twelve years ago in my early twenties when I signed up to Guardian Soulmates (RIP). I didn’t like it and couldn’t be bothered, s…