a long time ago ebay invented internet reputation because no one trusted rando strangers shipping beanie babies from ohio. trust is the lubricant of scale. whenever you add liquidity, you erode the implicit social friction that used to do that job so you have to replace it with a score, a review, quite literally something. tea is just that, but for dating. high frequency, high “anonymity”, zero context dating = an unsolvable game unless you layer in some kind of memetic defense mechanism. dudes are now products. & maybe need reviews. is it gross? maybe. is it inevitable? probably. the real question isn’t “is this app evil?” it’s “why did the market pull this into existence at this very moment?” because that’s what it did.