Are hookups on the rise in the course of the Republican Nationwide Conference this week?
In keeping with Google search developments, that has been one of many sizzling subjects on folks’s minds in Milwaukee, significantly relating to homosexual relationship app Grindr, which has seen a flood of unconfirmed experiences that it’s frequently crashing in the course of the conference.
However what’s actually taking place on Grindr this week?
One consumer in Milwaukee mentioned there was a big bump within the variety of nameless customers.
“On any given day, you’ll go on there and see a headless torso or clean profile,” mentioned the supply, who didn’t wish to be named. He defined {that a} profile sometimes means a consumer is in search of a fling, not a relationship.
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The Grindr consumer mentioned he noticed an enormous improve within the quantity of clean profiles this week.
If that’s the case, it aligns with Grindr’s exercise throughout earlier nationwide conventions.
After the 2016 RNC in Cleveland, a Vice article that cited sources from Grindr mentioned consumer site visitors elevated by 66% across the conference’s important hub. Different Grindr hotspots, like Instances Sq., Capitol Hill, Disneyland, and South Seaside, Florida, noticed no comparable improve in consumer site visitors on the time.
Democrats flock to the app throughout their conference, too. The identical article mentioned Grindr reported a 148% improve in exercise round Philadelphia’s Wells Fargo Enviornment in the course of the week of the 2016 DNC.
Grindr didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark about a rise in utilization or reported outages in the course of the 2024 RNC, and in response to standing.grindr.com, no operational incidents have been recorded by Grindr since Could, when partial outages for the grid, chat and albums options have been famous. In June and July, all Grindr options have been 100% operational in response to the app’s official standing tracker.
However that’s not stopping customers from taking the matter into their very own arms.
Reviews of the Grindr app crashing elevated by greater than 90% prior to now 48 hours throughout the nation, in response to Downdetector, a digital platform that tracks service points amongst apps. Downdetector’s warmth map reveals the place the Grindr outages are happening. Milwaukee is among the few hotspots for outages, in response to the web site.
These experiences might have spawned from a latest put up from @TheHalfwayPost, a political satire account, on X, previously generally known as Twitter.
BREAKING: An govt of the homosexual relationship app Grindr says the Republican Nationwide Conference is “mainly Grindr’s Tremendous Bowl.”
— The Midway Put up (@HalfwayPost) July 16, 2024
The put up claimed to cite a Grindr govt who allegedly mentioned that the Republican Nationwide Conference is “mainly Grindr’s Tremendous Bowl.”
As of Thursday morning, the put up has practically 50 million views.
Former Republican New York Congressman George Santos was one in every of them. Santos, who was expelled from Congress earlier this yr for misuse of marketing campaign funds and committing federal crimes, responded to the satirical tweet with a honest message to any doubtlessly closeted homosexual conservatives.
“So, Grindr executives are calling the RNC the ‘Grindr Tremendous Bowl,” Santos mentioned in a July 17 video posted to X.
“Let me let you know one thing,” the brazenly homosexual former Congressman continued. “Simply come out of the closet, boys. Come on, it’s enjoyable! You might be homosexual and conservative. However, look, Grindr’s already outing you anyway based mostly on the hits, and guess who’s on the town? It’s all you conservatives. Bye!”
Within the video, Santos mentioned he met his husband, Matheus “Matt” Gerard, on Grindr. The 2 have been collectively for six years and married for 3.
That timeline means the couple couldn’t have linked up in the course of the 2016 RNC, however with another evening of the 2024 conference to go, there’s loads of time for last-minute matches to be made in Milwaukee, irrespective of the relationship app.
This text initially appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Did relationship app Grindr crash in the course of the RNC in Milwaukee?
