Republicans Making Grindr Great Again

Republicans Making Grindr Great Again

For a political group that doesn't want to support the queer community, they sure are using our apps! Gay hookups came to a halt as Grindr went down in the city of Milwaukee on Tuesday, the site of the Republican National Convention. Things that make you go hmmm...

Downdetector.com received over 1,000 reports from users stating that Grindr was down. Not the way we want things to go down on us. Apparently the hookup app had unprecedented activity for that area. Social media and headlines coined the Republican Convention as the "Grindr Superbowl." Even political weirdo George Santos got in on the action.

Comeouttheclosestboys! pic.twitter.com/3peFp8KOHh

— George Santos (@MrSantosNY) July 17, 2024

More and more gay conservatives are coming out of the closet so to speak. Interesting considering the conservative side has introduced more than 500 anti-LGBTQ legislative bills this year. Grindr usage peaking at Republican events is nothing new. Previous hears conventions and other rallies have experienced high usage. At the 2016 RNC event in Cleveland, Grindr reported a 120% spike on the first day of registration. During that event, male escorts also reported an increase in business, female escorts reported a decrease in business. For this year's RNC, Grindr has reported that 75% of the users were white, as compared to 40% of the average Grindr user base. Make America Gay Again!

BREAKING: An executive of the gay dating app Grindr says the Republican National Convention is “basically Grindr’s Super Bowl.”

— The Halfway Post (@HalfwayPost) July 16, 2024

The platform's rival Scruff got cheeky and posted the following on their Instagram:

 

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We are assuming most of the profiles were blank profiles or just torsos. No one wants to be outed. One user actually posted footage of him logging in at the RNC.

BREAKING: An executive of the gay dating app Grindr says the Republican National Convention is “basically Grindr’s Super Bowl.”

— The Halfway Post (@HalfwayPost) July 16, 2024

A quick glance at some of the profiles tells us all we need to know about the Grindr Gays at RNC.

Checked out Grindr at the RNC's exact location & it did not disappoint https://t.co/qakobE6Pgv pic.twitter.com/G4spr55eE7

— Strewth ️‍⚧️️‍ (@StrewthQueen) July 17, 2024

Grindr's outage has even made mainstream news, now the platform is a household name. Little by little, we are taking over the world! Bwahahahaha!

I think the thing about grindr at the rnc is less “haha anti gay politician secretly gay” and more “damn there’s a lot of self hating gay folks at the rnc” and that’s just sad. Have some god damn respect for your own identity

— Part time fox, Full Time Reyn! (@seethereyn) July 17, 2024

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