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/
It makes a heat map based on problems reported by users that go to DownDetector and report a problem. Have you ever heard of sampling errors?
I linked Grindr’s actual server status page earlier if you missed it (edited it into the wrong comment): https://status.grindr.com/ zero issues reported today.
But I guess a bunch of unverifiable reports is more trustworthy than the actual server status itself.
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.
✅ 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
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.
It makes a heat map based on problems reported by users that go to DownDetector and report a problem. Have you ever heard of sampling errors?
I linked Grindr’s actual server status page earlier if you missed it (edited it into the wrong comment): https://status.grindr.com/ zero issues reported today.
But I guess a bunch of unverifiable reports is more trustworthy than the actual server status itself.
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.
Then say what the message is. Why do we need to make the “joke” at the expense of marginalized groups?
I thought of that video the second I saw this post. It’s a sad cope, honestly… like, we all deserve better