It's like telling a dude to become a Top 1% dude in order to somehow "win" by rooting through the trash. If anyone was a top 1% of men looking for true quality they wouldn't be driving their Bugatti in a three piece suit to pick up the trash because they might find something that just "looks good" but is still trash.I've set up OLD profiles and left every time, sometimes within a day or 2, but usually gravitate back there 6 months later to see if the market has improved. I often see the same girls on there months and years later. And these are single moms with 2 kids, 30 lbs overweight, tattoos, a bad attitude, and a 4/10 in the looks department.
As @Tenacity said, why haven't those girls found a man and moved on? The girls I described above should have locked down THE FIRST MAN to message them and immediately deleted their profile. They were lucky a man would spit at them. Instead, while the hot girl gets 400 messages a week, she gets 20 messages a week - but that is still more than 97% of the men on there so imagine the rush a worthless POS woman like that gets from still getting a couple of messages a day - that despite ALL her bad choices in life that has rendered her garbage, some guys will still validate her.
I've had women say "I don't feel comfortable giving out my number so soon" after 3 messages. The actors here would have you believe I didn't DHV, maximize my photos, or have a great "opener". No, the merchandise is just broken. That's why it remains on the shelf (or dating website) forever
Now the photos yes. Your photos have to be the absolute best. It's also how you stack up against the Athletic, white dudes in your area in order to get replies or gauge how you're going to do. In the end all your competing with them for is the "best" of the same chicks who not only need to use OLD but live in those virtual dive bars.
I ain't hating on chicks either. I know for a 100% fact, not only knowing some hot trainwrecks irl that use or have used OLD but speaking to many and hearing sh1t you cannot make up if you tried that it's for bottom of the barrel. ESPECIALLY if the chick looks good or great. Always serious issues. Some mental, some downright evil, some drug addicts, some broke, some with good jobs and still looking for "extra to be spent on them, some been molested by family, some even raped, some alcoholics as in drinking every time you spoke with them. A few with criminal court cases, some "separated", some divorced a few times, some serial daters, some hate men, some closet bisexuals, sh1t I could go on and on. The amount of phuckery I heard from the majority of these chicks I didn't even bother with meeting them. Might as well just date phuck ups IRL and play Russian roulette with your life and progress just to try and get that golden puss while deluding ourselves we "don't put it on a pedestal". F that.