As a man, I've never received a single message in online dating. I get likes (I wonder if out of pity), yet anytime I encourage myself to write a neutral message based on something described on their profile(common sense, no weird situations like those you had to go through)
Yet... nothing comes back. Wondered ways I had to blame myself to rectify (was my profile pic, bio? The way I wrote that crucial first message for that first impression?), just for reaching, once more, the amazing conclusion...
I gave up

. I got no social circles, no suitable social status, etc. I guess I'd be seen, sooner or later, as worthless material, once I get forced to speak the truth about myself (I don't feel like catfishing anyone).
If I'm a creep, I'd have yet another reason to shut me off from the gene pool, I guess.