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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.
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.
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!
When comparing it to another service that is used everywhere, like yahoo mail, Grindr appears to have more presence in Milwaukee.
https://downdetector.com/status/yahoo-mail/map/
Does that support op's argument? Maybe, maybe not.
Downdetector is also going off of 100 user reports. Could just as likely be trolling.
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/
It would be even funnier if Grindr intentionally turned the app off ahead of some big Republican gathering. See what shakes out.
Fake or not, I'm not taking any actions based on it. It's just a funny story. I don't think we need to wait to laugh. We can assume it's true and no harm will be done.
Tbf Corona stock DID go down, probably much more than one would have expected given the economic turmoil of the time.
I like this story therefore it's true