Why Dating Apps Don't Work Anymore In 2026 ( And What Replaced Them ) w/ Scot McKay ( Ep 337 )

<p>If the apps have cost you confidence rather than dates, this one explains why.</p><p><br></p><p>Scott McKay has coached men since 2005 and met his wife on Match.com twenty years ago, back when online dating actually worked. He&#39;s not anti-app , his point is that the feedback the apps gave you was never real data about you.</p><p><br></p><p>Here&#39;s what happened. Around 2011, the correct advice was to swipe on everyone and sort it out later. So women opened the app to hundreds of likes from men who had never read their profile. She read that as hundreds of men choosing her, picked ten, and waited. Those ten never answered — they&#39;d swiped on everyone too. You swiped on eighty women, heard nothing, and concluded something was wrong with you. Both sides were reading the same broken meter.</p><p><br></p><p>We get into AI-generated photos, why the Hinge founder quit his own app, and what Scott tells a guy who&#39;s deleting the apps this week - including why, after almost two decades of taking men out to talk to strangers, he has never once seen the rejection scene every guy is afraid of.</p><p><br></p><p>───────────────────────────</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Free Dating Protocol:</strong> https://www.innerconfidence.com/</p><p><strong>Book a call with Robbie: </strong>https://www.innerconfidence.com/community</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Guest: Scott McKay</strong> - https://www.mountaintoppodcast.com/</p><p><br></p><p>───────────────────────────</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Connect with Robbie:</strong></p><p>Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robbie_kramer/</p><p>TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@robbie.kramer</p><p>YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/innerconfidence</p>