Grindr Outage Reports Coincide with Kirk Memorial Service in Arizona
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Grindr experienced an outage coinciding with a Charlie Kirk memorial service in Arizona, sparking speculation about a potential connection, while others dismiss the correlation as coincidental.
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Grindr isn't a space designed for straight men, so you really have to wonder what these gentlemen are doing to crash a multinational company's services when they visit a city.
Why do liberals imagine gays must be left? This is the exact same logic which imagines all blacks must be democrats. This is a stupid thought to have.
Charlie Kirk was certainly a proponent of heterosexual-only marriages: https://m.youtube.com/shorts/e9HCz5wkDiY
But I can't recall ever seeing anything like an attempt to ask them.
A service I work on also had a short outage yesterday, because outages happen.
https://www.newsweek.com/grindr-app-crashes-milwaukee-rnc-19...
JUL 19, 2024 AT 03:27 PM EDT
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Grindr CEO confirms ‘significant’ user spike during Republican National Convention
https://unherd.com/newsroom/grindr-ceo-confirms-significant-...
July 7, 2025
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Things get VERY awkward after antigay congressman is asked about his alleged Grindr profile
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/things-get-very-awkwa...
6 months ago
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But by all means, Claude going down for 15 minutes yesterday explains this all away.
I'm guessing there were many events where there were no outages.
I notice you have provided zero context/info/links, but thanks for your "I guess" post and complaint. You added a lot to the conversation and I'm sure your next reply will really take the cake!
My response: Here are 3 more examples, in addition to the article we're commenting on here
You then say: "Seems like conspiracy theory thinking tying 3 events to ... what exactly?"
My response: Expecting someone to provide more than 3 links when you've done nothing except say "nuh-uh!" in the thread is silly and your next response will likely be less helpful.
You: huhcat.gif
I'm saying show that.
I bet given enough time you can show 3 occurrences occurring of just about anything.
A nice way of saying you'll ignore any evidence you're presented.
> I'm saying show that.
You already told me you don't care, why would I waste my time - especially when you continue to add nothing to the conversation.
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