“Now I didn’t have a single match, had 0 likes, and yet I was able to violate their terms of service, pretty impressive isn’t it?”
He signed up in a new country and paid for Platinum and a boost. The app quietly broke for him, so he contacted support. Support banned him for life for breaking terms of service, with zero matches to break them with. Tinder took the money first. False positives cost the platform nothing, so it doesn’t care how many it makes.