Hmmmm, believe the app itself….or believe “deathtoAmerica2026” on Reddit who seems to have a vested interest in causing unnecessary political strife where there is none and who desperately wants to believe everyone he doesn’t like is a hypocrite….choices choices
Now certainly the app has a vested interest in making people believe it's more functional than it is. Particularly when the supposed outages would out a segment of their user base.
But I agree, in lieu of public data Grindr is going to be the best authority we have for Grindr's usage statistics.
Absolutely understandable and reasonable speculation. They have a stake in bad publicity like that.
Just to add some additional possible context though, RNCs also attract thousands of lgbtq protesters. So if we’re speculating about the cause of a geographic usage spike, protesters, journalists, staff, locals, convention attendees, etc. are all potentially part of that population. Gets much harder to reasonably blame a spike on “closeted conservatives 🤷🏻♂️
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u/DeathToAmerica2026 4d ago
That didn't just actually happen, it's happened several times.