✅ No date
✅ So zoomed out it covers an entire region of a state
Yup… it’s repeat the (incorrect) homophobes are gay meme time again
Beat me to it. This is just homophobia
The real message is that republicans, who notoriously are homophobic and vote to eradicate LGBTQ+, also include people who are homosexual, bisexual, or trans chasers.
The joke is the hypocrisy, not the fact that men be fuckin men sometimes.
The real.message is …
Then say what the message is. Why do we need to make the “joke” at the expense of marginalized groups?
Sorry for not putting the date on it. You want the meta data?
There are fundamental problems with the data that the video goes into, a major one being that this is user reported data, not data from Grindr or some objective meter measuring of internet activity.
Which also just completely ignores that queer people already live in Dallas and people who aren’t Republicans but are queer come into town to work for any big convention anywhere.
Also, like… there are other large outages in the map. You telling me the Republicans are also having a convention in Boston, NYC, Chicago, and Springfield?
I wish I knew what video you were referring to. I saw no video. I knew that every time Republicans gather in masses Grindr gets heavier than normal usage and starts experiencing problems. So after the day’s scheduled events were over I went to an outage site that offers location information expecting to find the usual. And I did.
I’m telling you I used historical data to form a hypothesis and found exactly the data I expected. Look at that map again. Notice other major cities like San Francisco known to have large gay populations aren’t having that outage or aren’t having one anywhere close to the same scale? Notice how it started in the last hour of schedules events? Did you know you can go look at the outage data from yesterday and not see the same peak at 8pm local time?
You can get defensive but that doesn’t change how repeatable this is and how if your ideas held any water we would expect to see other indicators that would match your hypothesis. We don’t.
In my first reply I linked a video that explains the problems with the Republicans crash grindr’ meme.
Again, this is not measuring traffic from Grindr. It’s showing user reports to DownDetector on a heat map. That’s not remotely the same as measuring traffic to Grindr or a reflection of the actual server status of Grindr, primarily because anyone can add ‘data’ to it, regardless of its veracity.
Btw, here’s the official Grindr server status. It’s all green and has been all day: https://status.grindr.com/
E: meant to edit the next comment down but w/e
Oh, my ability to watch videos is extremely limited. So I didn’t watch it.
If you want to pretend that this is just a meme and not a predictable recurring pattern that’s up to you.
You have a fundamental misunderstanding of what DownDetector is and what it does.
It reports outages. Those outages always follow major Republican gatherings. Always. Without exception.
I thought of that video the second I saw this post. It’s a sad cope, honestly… like, we all deserve better
“Noone loves a hooker with a dick under her dress more than a closeted republican.”
From an old Onion News video: https://youtu.be/simV1ZXFsxI
Isn’t DFW in the top 5 most populous areas of the United States? That map is basically just showing population density
That would make sense if the other top 5 were lit up, wouldn’t it? Also note the time. The surge started during the last hour of the scheduled day’s events.
- NY 🔴
- LA 🔴
- Chicago 🔴
- Houston 🔴
- Phoenix
4 out of 5 appear to be lit up on the image
Notice how you skipped Philadelphia, San Francisco, Los Angeles. Places with large gay populations. We have historical data we can use. There was no outage like this last Wednesday, was there? Texas isn’t known for being a gay friendly state, is it? The city of Dallas? Nope. You’re trying to present an abnormality as normal and it doesn’t pass the sniff test. YoYu getting into special pleading territory.
I listed LA. SF also is red on this map. I think the real question is why do you need this narrative to be true?
Sorry about not seeing LA. SF is there but at a totally different level, right?
The data says it’s true. Time after time. It’s not my narrative. It’s reality. Why do you need to say it’s not true? Why is it that Dallas is lit up like a Christmas tree exactly during the last hour of the scheduled event but not any other 8pm Wednesday in Dallas for a very long time?
If data has proven this time and again, surely you won’t mind directing me to this data.
I wonder: are you gay?
I find importance in combatting this myth because as a queer person, it’s frankly tiring to hear “homophobes are just repressed self-hating gays, actually” over and over—usually from straight people. It’s the “adult” version of saying, “they’re just bullying you because they like you”.
What does this narrative do for anyone? It misses the point of why these people do what they do: they’re bigoted. It reframes the issue from being about straight people oppressing gay people to gays oppressing themselves. It functions as a quick “gotcha” to make these people look pathetic, and for us to feel “better” than them. Which, well… they’re Republicans. Do we need to grasp at straws, especially now? We don’t.
We never hear about “DNC conventions crash grindr”. Why? Are we to believe the percentage of gays—and all closeted, no less—is higher in the republican party than the democrats? I don’t find such a thesis compelling. In fact, Pew found in 2024 that over 80% of LGBTQ voters are democrats. Yet somehow, only GOP cons are a problem. I don’t think so.
If using gay people as a cheap cudgel against the GOP is more important to you; if you’re more invested in being right on the internet; that’s a you problem. Goodbye ✌️
It’s in the same vein as people lashing out at Hegseth for wanting to give testosterone to troops that want it with, “That’s gender-affirming care!”
Like… yeah? So? Do we not want gender-affirming care to be available to people?
Yet somehow, only GOP cons are a problem.
Hold up. I insist that my position be accurately represented because otherwise you are arguing with a person you made up instead of me.
Reread everything I said. My position is that this happens at every Republican related convention. Not that it only happens then.
Can you correct your framing of my position to be accurate so that I know we are on the same page?
I’m sure there have been DNC related crashes too. But there is no built in hypocrisy because the DNC isn’t trying to repeal gay rights. You know that.
I skipped the rest of your comment because there was so much bad faith in that one sentence that I could see we weren’t having the same conversation.
Population heat maps don’t spike the same hour that conventions end their scheduled content. There is a lot of information on that map and chart that don’t match it being a population heatmap proxy.
What time of day do you think most grindr hookups happen? I’ll give you a hint… it’s not the morning
We 8:00 p.m. on a Wednesday is not the normal hookup time. You know that. Unless you know something I don’t know about most grindr hookups.
Have you ever used grindr?
I’m not part of its demographic. So no.
Then I do know things you don’t about grindr hookups.
And 8pm Wednesday is peak time? Even in a city where that isn’t a thing that happens? It just happened to take place coincidentally right as the day’s event was winding down just like it always does during every Republican convention.
That’s a level of coincidence frequency that requires a conspiracy theory because it’s not statistically probable or possible.
