It's Just A Gym Membership, A Car, & Lunch
I've grown to hate the idea of "online dating" because over the years I've learned a thing or nine about the industry. Put aside the "fake" people that use and abuse the service for their own interests, just focus on the fake that is the sites themselves. First, these sites are never comprised of "millions of members". They are, but not in any way they are claiming. The millions of members is split between the hundreds of other dating sites that company owns but you aren't intentionally using. So dating site XYZ is feeding into a master database that supplies profiles for many other sites you are not using. Sites you may not even want to be included in, but you are. So you sign up for site XYZ, but you are unknowingly included in many other singles sites. Next the sites don't decommission or age-out their profiles. Unless you go back and delete your profile, which no one ever does, your profile with images and info stays