Yeah, because Kate, Aria, Tory and Heather all made those 10.000's profile themself.
They were one of the first dating-companies to set up automation, and their first two functions were to:
1 - bate people to upgrade from "free" to "premium" membership, by having their fake profiles write to the new members.
2 - when someone canceled their trial or were close to it, they would have a fake profile write to them, so have them pay to reactivate the profile.
Ho to ANY blachhat forums and you find people controlling +100.000 profiles and selling different services around that ecosystem
You need to be gullible to the extreem, if you think even 20% of the profiles are real
If you go to
https://adultfriendfinder.com and press "browse" - at least 15% of the pictures are from known pornstars that have no knowledge of having a profile there.
There is a good reason Lars paid a lot of money to have topics deleted from GFY back then, and when he sold his nick and it got renamed to Xenophage