Sometimes the reasons for a Tinder ban are clear. Sometimes, though, they're not. olivialupp reports
Photo-Illustration: The Cut/Getty Images Getting banned from Tinder is serious. One day, you’re swiping left and right with abandon; the next, you open the most-downloaded dating app in the United States to find that you can no longer access your old matches and potential new suitors. Instead, you get an unswipeable alert that says “Your Account Has Been Banned,” directing you to the terms of use, which you have apparently, and mysteriously, somehow violated.
Juliette is unsure why she was taken off the app, but she has a hunch. “It’s either because they think I’m a robot because I sent ‘Hey’ to five different people because I’m really unoriginal,” she says, “or because I was reported by my ex-boyfriend.” It was suspicious timing, Juliette explains, because something had happened with her ex the day before.
Katia found a solution to her Tinder ban in an old phone she still had lying around. The separate phone provided Katia with an unrecognizable IP address so she wasn’t immediately locked out of making a new account. She was careful not to link her Spotify, Facebook, or Instagram and to use none of the same photos as her previous profile. For a few days, this worked, and Katia, who uses the app to overcome her shyness, even got a few matches.
After her first ban, “the first thing I thought was, This is the most poorly designed app if there’s no way to go through an appeals process or see why they banned you,” Emma says. “I thought it was bizarre because I hadn’t done anything. And now they’re gonna lose somebody.” Amy, who is also transgender, has been banned five times. Amy made her way back onto the app using new log-in methods and by emailing Tinder to explain that she believed she was banned as a result of transphobic reporting — something that did result in an overturn from Tinder. “I did a lot of research on Tinder forums and things like that and found that a lot of times transgender people will just get reported by other users that aren’t comfortable with transgender people,” she says.
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