It seems like this happens every so often on a few more hookup-y dating apps I'm on (Grindr and Feeld in particular): I'll match with/get messaged by a profile I've never seen before of some cute trans lesbian. They always fit the same general type: thin, white, pretty, very nice pictures but all solo. The kind of pics that COULD be legit dating app pics...or would be right at home as instagram pics that were stolen by some catfish.

The profile bio itself is usually v minimal in detail and more describes their relationship or sexual preferences than actual interests or personality, like a blank slate for the reader to project upon. And the real cincher is that within a few messages of the conversation, which usually feel a little off and lacking in the kind of real personality that chatting w/ an actual real person would have, they send a random "sexy" photo of themselves in undewear or athletic wear and then say something like "here's what I look like rn". Again, the pic is always perfectly shot and lit in an extremely IG or OF way. The few times I've not broken off the conversation there they always try to push things towards either exchanging photos (often blocking me outright when I decline) or they try to get me to meet up at their place and seem to entirely oppose a public meeting

What is up with these!? I can kind of understand the goal of the pic exchange ones, they're just trying to get trans women to send them nudes I suppose, but I'm really concerned at what the ones that try to get you to come to their apartment sight unseen are aiming to do! I almost fell for one of those on a particularly lonely evening before they pulled some weird "I'm naked in my apt rn so just come on up and undress the door is unlocked :)" shit that immediately set my internal alarm off at full blast