[Xposed Framework Modules] RobbieTechie:
The creation of the accounts is steady, meaning it's likely done by scripts or computers. They appear to be using fakerJS or somethi.ng similar to populate a tiny bit of data in the profiles. They use to fill out the entire profile, now it's typically age and a random name which would speed up creation time slightly.

Also the generated profiles won't show up as online, but rather how many days it was since 19542 days ago currently. For example because they use Unix time or Epoch time this isbased on 1 January 1969. If a profile is real and was just created they show up as online and typically have some information shown up.

If it was created by people it would not be so steady (roughly 10 profiles per second), also a real end user typically has to either verify a phone number or use an email address that is not in grindr's database. That means either someone has direct access to their system if it were people doing this, or they are created directly on the server by scripts and they have this setup to bypass any sign up restrictions such as verifying accounts which could easily be done since they control the system. This inflates their user base and value falsely.

The other thing I've noticed, at least near my area is that the profiles are typically trans. I have no problems with trans people as long as they're real people and not artificially generated. This started when the Chinese gaming company Kunlun Gaming Tech bought Grindr back in 2018. They had to sell the company for violating CFIUS laws in the United States. Those laws are to govern foreign sales in the United States and were violated so Grindr was sold to San Vincente Acquisitions, which has ties back to Kunlun Gaming

"The investor group that's buying Grindr has connections to the Chinese tech firm that was forced to sell the gay dating app in the first place, a new report says. Federal regulators last week approved Beijing Kunlun Tech Co.'s sale of Grindr to a company called San Vicente Acquisition LLC.Jun 2, 2020"

Bottom line, there are real profiles in with the generated profiles, but the massive amount of generated profiles are being created even faster than real people are being born in the real world. Grindr itself has stated that they use Artificial Intelligence and I'm guessing they tie that to the spam and all that. If they really wanted to stop some of the spam, such as the pictures being sent to advertise websites, they could read the hash of those images and block anything tied to that from being sent through their system, yet they let that continue.

I honestly wonder if they were funded by either some government or organization to push the trans profiles. Gay people are not that many in the world, and trans people are only a fraction of that yet suddenly there are a massive amount of trans profiles on the app. Talking to a trans friend, she said that she thinks they are fake too given that many of them end up pushing scams and she can't find a real one to actually talk to in person when she tried testing the app.

The other complaint I've seen is that they removed the ethnicity filter and the people it has hurt the most are typically people of different ethnicities. I have no issues with anyone of any other ethnicity, but grindr has actually done damage to them with what they did and usually the people that say they want that filter back are people of various different ethnicities. So basically this app has done damage to the people they claim to be trying to "help". A lot of this is why many users have been using the app less or left it all together, yet grindr doesn't seem to understand that. Either that or they are doing that on purpose, but I've rattled on long enough so I will leave things there for this post. I hope both of you are doing well !!!