[Critique] 21/F Tell me if I sound weird or something. Thanks.

Hey puppy_magnet! I just submitted mine for review so I figure tit-for-tat I should give my 2 cents on the other asking for review on the front page, right?

First things first: the things I like. You're up front about all your good qualities - volunteer work, animals, being a Death Cab fan, etc. That's good. As a reader, I should come away knowing all your best qualities, and unless you've got more you're not listing, I do.

Now for the areas where there's room for improvement: * You tell us you're into animals like a dozen times. And I get it, you love animals, and that's important to you, but you have a limited number of words I'll read on a profile before I get bored, and spending them re-telling me something you already told me is a waste of your audiences limited attention span. As a man, we have to do the messaging, so you need to put stuff on your profile we can message about. If I also like Dostoevsky or animals, we're golden, but if we share an interest in hiking, for example, I'd never know it and I can't message you about it. I certainly can't message you about being a good eater or dressing yourself - so you need to ask yourself if that's the optimal way to show your sense of humor, or if you can find something to write which can simultaneously showcase your humor, and also give me something to message you about (e.g., "You like Eddie Izzard, too!?")

Also, your photos: Your main photo is black and white, and your face occupies like 1/10 of it. That seems like a red flag to me for two reasons - A) I don't instantly know what you look like, so in a swiping game I'm swiping left, and B) Whether this is true or not, it says to me a lack of confidence. Somebody who likes how they look would put their main photo as their face. For that reason, I'd switch your second photo to your first. And, real talk? I get it. Your main photo doesn't really show your weight, and the other two do. I'm not trying to be offensive, but when it comes to dating, weight does matter and I get why you ordered your pics like you did. You put the one that doesn't show your weight as your main hoping to bring people into your profile. But, here's the thing - what's the point in bringing people in to your profile just to have them look at your other pictures and leave? Be up front about it, and while you might get fewer profile views, the ones you do get will have come to your profile knowing what you look like because they say your face, they know you're cute but chubby, and they're either so into cute they don't care about chubby, or they're kinda into both cute and chubby. Either way, the people you bring in will be fewer, but more likely to message.

Let me know what you think of my feedback, I haven't done a lot before and I hope it was helpful!

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