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.
Update: A little over two months later and I just found the Snopes article. The whole claim started as satire and it seems like folks took it seriously.
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 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.
Update: A little over two months later and I just found the Snopes article. The whole claim started as satire and it seems like folks took it seriously.
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.
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!
I like this story therefore it’s true
Here’s a local paper reporting on it.
https://www.jsonline.com/story/entertainment/2024/07/18/did-gay-dating-app-grindr-crash-during-the-rnc-in-milwaukee/74459556007/
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.
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.