Depending on where you look, Grindr CEO George Arison’s net worth is $20–80 million.
He joins a growing list of gay executives hell-bent on proving that enshittification isn’t just for the straights.
The crazy part is they basically own this space. An upstart app with AI that can turn the paradigm on its head is highly unlikely.
I’d imagine they’re basically like steam. Just keep printing the money if you don’t fuxk up.
Peter Thiel says hi
I predict it’ll go Meta and have fake accounts to keep engagement up plus a “AI matchmaker” assistant that will tell you its “advice” on the situation, mostly to get you to add more personal information.
The company is probably already using user data to build gay-interest advertising models for capitalism and gay-dar models for tyrants, but this policy will let them more openly sell that data.
Nobody but scammers even uses grindr anymore. This is to impress shareholders, not users. The users migrated to sniffies already.
I… wh… sniffies?
It’s like grindr as a web app. You install nothing. There’s a paid tier but it just removes ads and expands the radius.
Cool features… wild name.
Don’t decode this one. Just observe. You’ll just end up doing a rule34 in a recursive loop.
It’s still very popular where I live.
Lots of conservatives there?
Not that I know.
All I read was “data collection first”
Of course not. If he was into politics, he’d have to admit primarily that gay, white male conservatives who are so far in the closet they visited Narnia are the apps main base.
