“Not Latinos, Not Asians, Not Fat, Not pen... There Are People in Grindr Who Do a Lot of Harm”: How an App Shaped a Generation’s Sex Life

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While the drop in subscribers, downloads and value of Tinder or Bumble indicates that dating apps are at a delicate moment, Grindr, the geolocation-based application created in 2009 by businessman Joel Simkhai to connect to the LGBTQ community, lives a great moment. Although its users have been complaining for months that their free version is a hell of a usability. This is indicated by an analysis by GfK DAM, official digital consumption meter …