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Hook line and sinker. We really have suckers still falling for this stunt?
The stunt of gay republicans flooding an app for gay people whenever they meet up?
That's not happening. At all. It's a complete fabrication. Shock jock sensationalism to be consumed by morons.
You, specifically, should continue to fall for grocery store tabloid news. I imagine you need that in your life. But reasonable people need to know this is fake.
Here, Daddy made this for you
https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/8e5900ee5b50.mp4
Hate science eh
works everytime
Stunt? This happens every time there’s a big Republican event. It’s been like this for years.
The biggest recent Republican conventions were July 15-18 2024, August 24-27 2020, and July 18-21 2016. status.grindr.com doesn't have history back to July 2016, but for those dates in 2020 and 2024, there are no incidents.
People might report to down detector or things like that, but... that's amusing trolling, and part of the stunt, so it isn't relevant.
I don't know anything at all about grindr's infrastructure, but I'm really, really dubious that with 5.5 million daily users, they'd have more than 1 or 2 points of presence for the entire continental US. That means those POPs are sized for >100,000 users per hour, and 20,000 horny Republicans aren't enough to cause major issues, even if literally everyone at this convention is jumping on grindr afterwards. Also, modern infrastructure autoscales. Also also, the SREs for Grindr would notice if the app breaks every other year, and track when republican conventions are happening.