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No, Amfest 2025 did not cause Grindr to crash.AmericaFest (Amfest) 2025, hosted by Turning Point USA, took place December 18–21, 2025, in Phoenix, Arizona. During the event, viral social media posts and articles claimed Grindr experienced a major outage or "crash" in Phoenix due to high usage from attendees—often as a satirical jab implying hypocrisy among conservative participants.These claims relied heavily on spikes in user reports to DownDetector, a crowd-sourced site where people self-report issues (sometimes jokingly or in coordinated trolling). Similar unsubstantiated rumors have circulated about Grindr "crashing" at past Republican events, like the 2024 RNC or a 2025 Charlie Kirk memorial, but Grindr and fact-checks repeatedly found no evidence of actual server overloads.So your rebuttle is that the RNC is bigger than Amfest or that it has more gay sex. Hard to know the latter they keep crashing the app.
- Grindr's official status page reported no incidents or outages during December 18–23, 2025.
- Independent monitors like DownDetector and StatusGator showed no confirmed widespread problems in mid-to-late December 2025 (the last detected outage was earlier, around December 5).
- Sources skeptical of the claims noted that DownDetector reports can be inflated by memes or anecdotes, not reflecting real technical issues.
Get off reddit bud

