China Has Officially Removed Grindr From Their App Store Because They Don't Want People To Be Grossed Out At The Olympics

Source - LGBTQ dating app Grindr has quietly been taken down from the iPhone App Store in China, a move that is likely part of the country’s broader crackdown on what it deems illegal online content just days before it is set to host the 2022 Winter Olympics.

Besides being removed from Apple’s App Store, the dating app has also been removed from various Android app stores run by the likes of Huawei and Tencent, Bloomberg reported first.

The takedowns come just days after Chinese officials announced a fresh crackdown on what they deem illegal content online including rumors, pornography, gambling and other “ill-natured” activities.

Thank Christ. Now remove it from every other country on earth and gay men can finally start to heal. I'm friends with the guy who founded it (it's fine he cashed out) so I'm not going to talk too much shit, but I can't even tell you how much of a toxic wasteland that app has become. It's literally disgusting. The most active hours are between 11:00 PM and 2:00 AM and everyone on it is a pig. Not in a physical sense, but in a "come over to my apartment and raw dog me while I'm high on meth" sense. I had to delete it because it was too much. Which is a shame because in theory Grindr sounds great, but in reality it's a nightmare. I've met maybe two normal people off of it and both of them ended up being freaks.

Here's why they claim it's being removed...

Last week, the Cyberspace Administration of China launched a month-long campaign that will target content that violates the country’s internet laws as part of what it calls an effort to cultivate a  “healthy” environment for Chinese New Year. While the agency does not list portrayal of homosexuality and other gay themes under its list of illegal content, Beijing has increasingly shown intolerance towards LGBTQ groups and has even banned what it labels an “effeminate men” from TVs.

If I'm a gay Olympian I'm pissed. How else are you going to be able to tell who wants to fuck? It's easy during the summer games (shout out USA diving and gymnastics) but in the winter it's damn near impossible. Everyone's bundled up, you can't tell who's who. Oh well. As long as they don't remove Scruff, Squirt, and literally every other dating app on the internet I'm sure gays will find a way. They always do. Thanks for reading.