Gen Zzzz Gays Stoke Outrage Over Claims that Nobody Over 25 Should Be on Grindr

So Gen Zzzzz apparently think men between the ages of 25-30 are old, are now piping up on the internet with the dumbest proclamation that only men 25 and under should be looking for love (or mostly a hook-up) on Grindr.

via: Queerty

The latest example of Gen Z rage bait revolves around the orange demon app and whether gays and theys should check themselves if they’re still perusing the grid at… 25?!

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What in the name of “U up?”

“You’ll never catch me on Grindr past 25 idc,” somebody posted this past weekend on X, to the tune of 3.5 million views.

There is so much Grindr-related discourse, it can be difficult to keep track. A whole separate social ecosystem, debate constantly rages about appropriate etiquette and behavior on the world’s largest hookup platform for LGBTQ+ people.

When it comes to age, there are long-standing battles about younger gays who put strict preferences in their profiles. “Nobody over 30,” they write from the comfort of their college dorm rooms.

Speaking of which, a poster on X earlier this month declared if he was still dating on Grindr in his 30s, we should “just take him to God.”

That’s an interesting way to describe your latest anon hookup, but sure!

Before we go further, it’s worth noting both provocative declarations probably aren’t so serious. “This random subtweet getting attention for some reason,” replied the aforementioned poster.

They call that algorithmic magic! We eat up Grindr content like pigs feeding from the trough. (Don’t go any further with that analogy…)

With more than 14.7 million active monthly users, Grindr continues to become more popular, despite hoards of complaints about the user experience. In a previous interview with Queerty, the company’s chief product officer AJ Balance said the Grindr team wants its product to function as a “global gayborhood.”

Given the ubiquity of the app, they are already there, for better or worse. “Grindr broke a lot of the other ways that people used to meet each other, and left nothing but itself,” says Jamie Woo, who literally wrote the book on it.

While online dating has been a staple for decades, queer people flock to digital mating spaces in particularly high numbers. About half of LGBTQ+ adults say they’ve used an online dating platform, according to Pew Research, with 54% of queer adults ages 18 to 49 saying “yes.”

There are multiple reasons for that, beginning with the fact that gay people are still more socially disconnected than their hetero peers. The closures of gay spaces, especially in small and medium-sized metros, only compounds the isolation.

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Building off that point, a 2023 study from the U.K. found that Grindr is the most popular dating app among users aged 54 and up.

In the U.S., a 2019 NIH study found the median age for a Grindr user is 32. A more recent sample of Grindr users in the Atlanta metro area determined the mean age for a Grindr user is 31.37.

The average age of someone when they start an account in 26.

With those figures in mind, the odds of finding someone on Grindr older than 25 appear to be very high. Good luck getting one of us to reply, though.

With age comes wisdom, and that includes ignoring anyone on the apps who’s too young to rent a car!