Do you have a profile on Grindr?

I recently deleted mine.

A homeless guy wanted to come over to my place and jerk me off. Or have me jerk him off?

I asked him how he made a living; he said he wrote term papers for college kids and pulled weeds.

I told him I wasn't interested but I wrote I hoped he found a C-minus student with a backyard that hadn't been tended to in a long time.

He told me to fuck off.

I thought. That's it. I'm done. Too many homeless creeps. Semi-hot (but not really) youngsters looking for 'gen.'

For me, it's going to be the long, lonely road to the grave.

Just like Ginny Tillman.

I'm curious about the name. Why such a negative, sadistic choice: "Yeah, I met my husband on Grindr"?

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I deleted it years ago. Too many hooker-bots and regular hookers.

Scruff is a lot better, and seems utterly devoid of prostitution whores. Also, the guys there have fatter asses.

Thanks, R4; I'll try scruff.

I went to a holiday zoom party with a professional guild I belong to; lots of gay men. We all went around updating our lives with each other.

"I just got married!"

"I got engaged!"

Me: "I was asked on GRINDR if I was 'gen' -- and there's a five-year age gap between me and the guy who asked. He's the older one."

Dearest Mother describes anyone with an online dating profile as "pretty cheap goods." And I must agree.

I'm single and occasionally lonely. But I'm not a harlot.

Doesn’t the new CEO have a history of making pro-Trump posts that all got deleted when he was hired?

True story … I know a guy who posted a pic of his 80 year old female dyke neighbor on his Grindr profile. He got so many hits he had to take it down !

Grindr is absolutely full of trannies. There are also some straight girls appearing on there now, which I find really weird. Both get an instant block.

Grindr is no longer a gap app. It’s filled with bots, catfishers and trannies.

I deleted Grindr long ago.

Scruff has a higher quality of guys, users can get their pictures verified and that rules out catfishers, and one you block a disgusting tranny it stays blocked.

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Yeah so annoying to be on a gay app and see profiles from straight guys saying: no gay guys!!!

But if you’re a gay guy and say you’re into men only, you’re a horrible person!

I no longer have a Grindr account, but when I did, I used it for hookups only. I wasn't trying to make friends and lovers on it. I was very realistic about what kind of app Grindr is.

(Scruff is better if you're also interested in making friends and finding potential boyfriends.)

NO. I just pop up now and then and have a stable of regulars on rotation. they know me, and they know they can trust me and fuck me raw. I haven't since monkeypox, though, and not likely will go again.

For those few of you with a shred of political conscience, the new CEO's a rightwing MAGAt.

why is he not chinese R15 ? I thought grindr was owned by the chings

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DARKGEMINILORD I actually prefer my grindr hook-ups to be straight, with kids, they're more careful disease-wise

But the straight ones on there are looking for trans only…

not so R19. but TBH, one is a brute (he's hung and likes to hurt), another works at the morgue and is kind of weird...it's not all wine and roses

R11 as I said, once you block a disgusting tranny, either MTF or FTM, is STAYS blocked, unlike Grindr, where they could just erase their profile and stink up the app again

And I have noticed any FTM chasers on Scruff. I’m going to call bull shit on that statement.

HAVEN’T ^

[quote]I actually prefer my grindr hook-ups to be straight, with kids, they're more careful disease-wise

Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahah!!

You're hilarious, R19!

R23 I'm also dumb enough to have unprotected sex with semi-strangers, and I'm not even on PreP

I deleted mine a while back. The last hookup I had was with a hot guy I had been chatting with for a few days. When I finally agreed to go to his place, he asked me to bring a pizza for him (I didn't, but red flag). When I got to his apartment it was filled with garbage and he apparently slept on a mattress in the corner of the living room. Fine, I guess. So afte a while we start making out and two guys just come out of the back bedroom. Scared the shit out of me. Luckily they were just leaving, but I realized it could have been a dangerous situation.

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Scruff is better in almost every way except some quality guys only use Grindr still, so one has to have that too.

I am shocked at how many fake profiles there are on Grindr, so many of them CD's. I joined Grindr about 2 years ago and have blocked well over 200 fake profiles already. Can't Grindr do something about that? I won't upgrade until we can search other profiles with a preference for race.

r9 you had two branches of females on grindr back when it started; before transtrender wave, there was an active livejournal group of girls that believed they were only attracted to gay men but definitely not trans and screamed they had a right to be there -- they had a few blog articles on huffington post and it became a wider trend.

then a few years later when tumblr became all things sjw, they invaded because they could score "journalist" jobs or be awarded articles for catfishing gay men.. because there was a popular trend to attack gay men (which was partially tied to when gay men asked str8 women to stop holding bachlorette parties in gay spaces until marriage equality was federally recognized, the number of famous hags that ditched the gay community once they went mainstream but when their mainstream careers fizzled were upset that gays didn't welcome them back with open arms and declared gay men to be the worst, and identity label whores aka tumblrinas that co-opted the rad fem belief that gay men are at the top of the progressive stack as the most privileged group... all of which opened the doors to conservative trolls to do the same thing and claim it was for social justice because grindr refused to police sjws even when those accounts were frontpage news with their catfishing attempts, tho many of the alleged targets turned out to be their sockpuppets for their articles but that was given a pass because it highlighted an important social justice issue... it also allowed grindr to advertise solidarity with various groups for cross promotion. )

It's been a while is scruff the one that requires guys to take a picture of themselves shirtless holding a sign with their user name and the current date for validation?

Why not just use Tinder or that app Pete and Chasten met on, Squirt or Jacked?

"... the new CEO's a rightwing MAGAt"

And a Russian, of course. The APP is probably spyware that knows every detail of your life.

Of everyone here saying that Scruff is better, I am very curious about your respective locations? I’m in NYC (midtown Manhattan to be exact) and tbh I really don’t notice THAT big of a difference btwn the guys on each (perhaps scruff skewing older, and definitely fewer closet cases etc)?

I also feel like with Scruff, at least in NYC, most guys are there just to chat and get IG followers. Hate that shit. Feels like it’s becoming a gay instagram.

When it comes to actually meeting guys, I think I’ve had overall better luck with Grindr surprisingly (especially since upgrading to a paid subscription), idk…

^ also to add, anyone else feel like the extended profiles on scruff really brings out the narcissism in some? I swear, I’ve really pondered how many hours some guys have spent just typing their profiles (because you know, we all just NEED to know every minute detail about your super unique life and desires…).

R33, the profiles can be soooo funny. The 10/10 guy that claims he doesn't care about appearances. The guy that writes a book about his preferences yet says he is easy to please. The amateur philosopher. So much dumb shit. But Scruff really is better in my experience.

We should be able to report people saying “no dudes” if it’s against their terms to say “no trans/blacks” etc

I prefer Growlr. And what does this mean:

[Quote] "I was asked on GRINDR if I was 'gen'

[quote]And a Russian, of course.

R31 Read the article you posted, Lazy Lucy. He's from the Republic of Georgia and moved to the US when he was 14.

I prefer Growlr. And what does this mean:

"I was asked on GRINDR if I was 'gen'

R36, it means some snot twinky was asking me if I'd PAY him money to let me take him to dinner and then get a disconnected hand job afterwards.

They usually hit you up at the end of the month for rent and they have some sob story.

How is it worth $2 billion if hardly any of the 11 million subscribers pay?

How does it have 11 million subscribers if only 0.5 of the population is gay?

I agree with DARKGE MINILORD. He so wise.

R40 because it’s full of non gays too?

This new CEO looks an awful lot like your average flyover-state Grindr user. Eerie.

R38 NOW I get it! Gen means generous! Thank you.

[quote]How does it have 11 million subscribers if only 0.5 of the population is gay?

There are nearly 8 billion people in the world, and more than 4 billion are over the age of 18. So, if 5% of the population is gay (lots of debate there, of course) that means there could theoretically be as many as 200 million subscribers.

<- but the U.S. is one of the few countries you won't get thrown in prison or off a building or beheaded for being gay. So you can't count Syraqistanistan.

^ that's quite an exaggeration. There are nearly 200 countries and fewer than 70 criminalize homosexuality, and most of those are in Africa.

Actually most are Muslim theocracies. African ones round out the rest