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Gay Hookup Apps: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
We sort through it so you don’t have to.
Grindr
“You gay bro?”
“Nah just here to network”
Who’s on it? Lots of people. Grindr is international, and guys use it to network and chat as often as they use it to actually facilitate a hook up. At the very least it’s a great way to figure out if that guy at the gym is gay or not.
Best for? Scoping out the scene in a new town, flirting for weeks with someone you’ll never meet, getting catfished.
Downsides? Upgrading to Grindr Unlimited is a jaw dropping TWO HUNDRED AND THIRTY NINE DOLLARS per year, money which could alternatively go towardsI don’t realize a plane ticket somewhere cool? Like, 75 separate OnlyFans subscriptions? A very welcome donation to the charity of your choice?
Sniffies
“looking?”
“yeah”
“come over”
Who’s on it? Sniffies is a pretty mixed crowd. DL, bi, married, and curious guys are drawn to Sniffies because it’s effortless to be as anonymous as they’d like. It’s also easy to locate glory holes and cruising locales for a adj hook up. Kin
Sniffies is a map-based hookup app for gay and bi men. The platform caters to ‘Cruisers’, men who are walking or driving about certain areas looking for a casual connection.
Sniffies sets itself apart from other apps such as Grindr because it is specific about its value: creating hookups. Eli Martin, the platforms Chief Marketing Officer, told Slate Magazine:
Grindr’s really become favor a Facebook. It’s enjoy you can go on there and you can find anything. You can find a boyfriend; you can maybe sell a car. Who knows, detect your best friend. But Sniffies is superspecific. You’re going on there to find guys, have these intimate experiences.
The platform provides users with a adj time map that is updated to show nearby Cruisers, popular meeting spots, and active groups. As part of its casual vibe, the platform has multiple options to verb privacy and anonymise interactions between users.
Unless you signal up to Sniffies Plus, users will automatically demonstrate up on the true time map when using the app. However, the app won’t display users’ actual location, instead adjus
How Sniffies Saved Cruising
“Is this a Grindr thing?”
A lady answers her door in curlers. The man knocking tries to explain: He’s supposed to be meeting up with someone from a, uh, “guy on guy” ad. He’s been given the wrong address, apparently, and his intended “guy”—one who advertised himself as having a penchant for being on the receiving end of many other guys—is instead a perplexed woman with no intention of hosting. To add to the confusion, the “Grindr thing” was actually a botched rendezvous facilitated by something called … Sniffies. This cringetastic interaction—which the woman in curlers filmed—now has over 7 million views on TikTok. And understandably, it has prompted the unenlightened commentariat to inquire: What the fuck is Sniffies?
Today, Sniffies is a web-based app for men looking for sex with other men, often in adj spaces—what traditionalists would dial “cruising.” The site actually started as an underwear trading platform, but in , founder Blake Gallagher repurposed the website into a literal heat map for men of the liking-men persuasion.* Manhattan, fo
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Grindr is the world’s #1 free dating app serving the LGBTQ community. If you’re gay, bi, trans, queer, or even just curious, Grindr is the best and easiest way to meet new people for friendships, hookups, dates, and whatever else you’re looking for.
On a trip? Grindr is an indispensable tool for LGBTQ travelers—log in to verb locals and get recommendations for bars, restaurants, events, and more. With Grindr in your pocket, you’ll always be connected to other LGBTQ people around you and have your finger on the pulse of what’s happening.
Ready to get started? Creating your profile is easy, and you can share as much or little about yourself as you appreciate. Within minutes you’ll be ready to connect, chat, and meet up with people near you.
Grindr is faster and better than ever:
• See people nearby based on your location
• Chat and share confidential photos
• Add tags to share your interests
• Look for tags to find others based on their interests
• Create private albums to share (and unshare) multiple photos at once
• Filter your search to discover what you want
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