Memes also become useful when you spot a friend’s profile who’s five feet away, or when you find your HR manager. And your audience is based on proximity the same grid neighbors might get bored with you calling your penis an “ uncut gem.” “I haven’t seen any truly very-online Twitter memes on a Grindr profile, but If I did, I would not have sex with that person,” Kahn says, joking, “my username is ‘SOME PIG’ because I’m classy.” On Grindr, conversations are private between two users. Memes have a longer tail-end on Twitter or Instagram because they’re public. Not a single Veronica we know of has kids at Otter Bay Elementary.) Big Little Lies is a cultural queer touchstone, but Dern plays Renata Klein. They all used Laura Dern’s character’s name.” (Kahn is being disrespectful, even if his claim is correct. “People were naming themselves after characters like ‘Veronica’ or whatever their dumb names are. The same goes for HBO’s Big Little Lies: “a show that is objectively terrible boring but cleverly targeted to gays,” says writer Andrew Kahn, 27. When Schitt’s Creek (created by the out gay Dan Levy, who also stars) became must-binge TV, the ubiquitous phrase “Ew, David” started popping up on Grindr profiles.
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TV shows are the most prolific meme fodder. It’s common to find users who’ve changed their profile to slam Mayo Pete or praise Bernie Sanders during a debate night. Just as Twitter names are changed to reflect cultural conversations, so are usernames on the hookup app. It’s not just reaction photos that do well on Grindr. “People under that age range usually laugh, and some send back.” Some will try and act like they understand it, but I doubt it,” McCarthy says. “If they’re older than 35, usually confused. Not all users respond well to seeing memes when what they really want is to see is bussy. We’ve covered transwomen trolling masc men through audio messages, and this feels like the next wave: meme enthusiasts like McCarthy rejecting the transactional nature of the app - instead, sending strangers a photo of plush Kermit the Frog spreading his ass open. It may be an app best known for sex negotiations and a dating culture drenched in transmisogyny and heteronormative masc4masc scenes, but Grindr has turned into an underground hub for some of the best digital shitposting. “They’re wrong, and they need a sense of humor,” he tells me.
McCarthy doesn’t entertain their confused inquiries over his sexual shitposting, though. His boss and the bar patrons often ask why he sent them memes - and not nudes - on Grindr. McCarthy’s artistry isn’t always appreciated. When there’s a filter on the unsolicited dick, he sends a photo of Simon Cowell saying, “It’s a no from me.” When the anon guy who tapped you first won’t respond to his “hey,” he sends the girl from Finding Nemo knocking on the fish tank. When he’s not looking to hook up on Grindr, English bartender Harry McCarthy, 20, is using the app to send a barrage of memes to his boss or other gays at his pub.