Overview

• Thousands attended the Sept. 21 memorial for Charlie Kirk at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, with remarks from President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance and Erika Kirk.
• Crowdsourced Downdetector data showed spikes in Grindr problem reports around Phoenix shortly after 7 p.m. Sunday and again the next morning, with screenshots indicating peaks of roughly 168 reports and later over 200.
• Grindr’s status page listed no incidents on Sept. 21, and a company spokesperson said there were no outage reports that day.
• Snopes noted that Downdetector data are user submissions rather than verified failures and said it could not independently confirm the Sept. 21 figures after they rolled off the site’s 24-hour window.
• Social users circulated heat maps and joked about a link to GOP attendees, while coverage cautioned that similar report clusters appeared in other cities and that past Republican events have coincided with concentrated Grindr traffic without proving causation.