I don’t want to be the killjoy here, but I do think this is the kind of too-perfect-to-be-true story one might find out a week later was fake news. I’m holding out for a Snopes entry.
Like remember how it was big news that people weren’t buying Corona beer during the early days of the pandemic because they confused the name? Fake news.
Not making a prediction here on this Grindr story, just urging skepticism until it’s confirmed.
And if it is true, I’ll laugh my ass off.
Here’s a local paper reporting on it.
The Grindr user said on a normal day you’d encounter maybe 10 users with no profile photo, but Thursday, when he checked the app, he said he stopped counting at 50 blank profile photos.
I don’t know about crashing, but Grindr has always seen spikes at RNC and CPAC events. This gets brought up every time there’s an event.
It’s like the whole “Pentagon Pizza Meter” thing.
I like this story therefore it’s true
The screenshot doesn’t appear to be faked: https://downdetector.com/status/grindr/map/
Whether the data is correct is another question.
So it’s jam up in just about every major city? Looks like a general slow down to me.
When comparing it to another service that is used everywhere, like yahoo mail, Grindr appears to have more presence in Milwaukee.
https://downdetector.com/status/yahoo-mail/map/
Does that support op’s argument? Maybe, maybe not.
Downdetector is also going off of 100 user reports. Could just as likely be trolling.
Yep, just the major cities of NY, SF, LA, Seattle, and … Milwaukee
It’s like the 60th largest metro area in the states, so that’s definitely it!
Tbf Corona stock DID go down, probably much more than one would have expected given the economic turmoil of the time.
Why is it hard to believe? This is a very well documented thing about Republicans.
They’ve been getting busted in truckstop bathrooms for decades.
Just because the story makes for such a hit of schadenfreude and self-righteousness for the left-of-what-the-U.S.-calls-“center” mind especially right now. (The Republicans have a history of being very anti-gay and librals (and everyone else, really) love to point out hypocracy like that.) And it’s very easy to imagine that kind of story could take off in the not-fans-of-Republicans wing of social media even if there was no truth to it.
And also, there’s nothing in the OP that makes it seem like anyone remotely reputable has seriously tried to verify it yet.
I’m not saying it’s implausible. (Nor, clearly, do I think it’s implausible it’s just made up out of whole cloth.) Just that it’s the kind of story that is likely to be swallowed hook-line-and-sinker by folks like me without consideration of whether it’s actually true or not.
Enterly reasonable but assuming it’s true matters little anyway. It’s confirmation bias for those who want nothing to do with the GOP and the GOP won’t believe it anyway, no matter the evidence (like climate change etc).
If it’s is false it won’t matter, if its true it won’t matter.
It would be even funnier if Grindr intentionally turned the app off ahead of some big Republican gathering. See what shakes out.
Well…
Typically when Republicans screech about gays going to hell you can just start a stop watch just to see how long it takes for that same Republican to be found in a motel room snorting meth from a gay escort dick
Fake or not, I’m not taking any actions based on it. It’s just a funny story. I don’t think we need to wait to laugh. We can assume it’s true and no harm will be done.
Epic!
Reminds me of this skit by The Onion.
As much as I want to believe, it looks like every major city is experiencing downtime. Looks like selectively used data.
The entire Milwaukee Metro area is smaller than Cleveland, which while it’s on the map, it’s not nearly the same size.
… Does this mean the Republican Party is embracing the Gay Agenda?
The GOP does not hug — that’s for their priests and children
OMG This hits home too closely growing up for me. 🫣
Only behind closed doors as they always have. Closeted homosexual self haters.
Nah, just finding new ways to fuck the LGBTQ+ community.
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Nah, its just a bunch of straight, masculine, white alpha males who fuck other straight, masculine, white alpha males.
nothin gay about it! /s
fuck threads
I didn’t realize there were that many Log Cabin Republicans that attended this year…
Many conservatives would be a lot less angry if they would just openly admit that they like cock.
But then they would be mad at themselves since the only strength they can muster in life is holding back.
Makes sense. J.D. Vance was in town.
Ugh. Did you have to make me imagine fucking a Republican?
I once made out with a Republican. Then I found out she was a Republican. Fucking was not going to happen.
“I Just Had Sex” probably wouldn’t even touch the charts if it came out today… Those jokes were written in a simpler time.
Vote. Emphatically say “HUHN! You like that?!” with every check mark.
So, which type did you imagine first? The fat rich owner republican? Or the undereducated poor “temporarily embarrassed billionaire”?
Sauce?
Mario Wonder
Looks like its crashed everywhere.
Gaslight, Obstruct, Project
Project
I said the real Project 2025.
Perfection.
Same energy as this
I knew it was that Onion episode before I even clicked. Nice.
This person went undercover at CPAC and as a side project they made a fake Grindr profile. It’s right at the beginning of this video at 0:40.
i like dead domain
Crazy that that video is 11 years old and still just as relevant.
Hell yeah, love deaddomain.
A party that will make sure all dicks are licked.