Is this too forward and a red flag?

Anonymous
I met a guy off tinder and I started talking to him on another platform, by text. Before we arranged a date, I found him really intense, he was being forward complimenting my appearance, and I had reason to believe that he was older than what he said he was. He told me he was 30, but in his pictures, he looked about 40. I decided to make an excuse up because I knew I didn’t want to go on the date with him, and then ignored his messages after that. He then messaged me asking if he did anything wrong, and then I felt guilty and would up giving him my number again and arranging another date. Since then he has made another comment about my latest Instagram post, and put a wink face on it and I just feel creeped out, and I have a bad feeling about this. I feel like I’ve been pushed into going out with him again out of guilt when I really don’t want to go out with him, but he is being too pushy with me.

is this a red flag? What should I do?
Is this too forward and a red flag?
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