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How Sniffies Saved Cruising
“Is this a Grindr thing?”
A woman answers her door in curlers. The gentleman knocking tries to explain: He’s supposed to be conference up with someone from a, uh, “guy on guy” ad. He’s been given the improper address, apparently, and his intended “guy”—one who advertised himself as having a penchant for existence on the receiving end of many other guys—is instead a perplexed female with no intention of hosting. To add to the confusion, the “Grindr thing” was actually a botched date facilitated by something called … Sniffies. This cringetastic interaction—which the woman in curlers filmed—now has over 7 million views on TikTok. And understandably, it has prompted the unenlightened commentariat to inquire: What the fuck is Sniffies?
Today, Sniffies is a web-based app for men looking for sex with other men, often in public spaces—what traditionalists would call “cruising.” The site actually started as an underwear trading platform, but in 2018, founder Blake Gallagher repurposed the website into a literal heat map for men of the liking-men persuasion.* Manhattan, for example, appears as a cerulean city grid speckled with circles: Some are profiles of cruisers, whi
As a video producer and interviewee in the Snippies Online Dating Horror Stories, I can reveal you that there was much more to my story than what made final cut. So, here are the full gory details of one of my more noteworthy New York Municipality dating escapades.
At the peak of my online dating career I would strive almost any app or service that existed, from the traditional Match.com to the questionable algorithms of Coffee Meets Bagel. Like many New Yorkers, Tinder was one of the apps that (shamefully) worked its way into regular use on my phone. While I was willing to believe that it would be feasible for me to find someone, I never wasted a single second considering Tinder would display me with the potential next rung on the ladder of career advancement.
What started as a seemingly innocent darkness of swiping while dog sitting took an interesting twist when I equivalent up with “Jane.” She was brief with an affinity for avocados and incisive wit. We met up at a bar in Brooklyn known for its extensive craft beer list and a propensity for dim lighting. Throughout the course of the date, conversation settled on our current employment situations where we subsequently found out that ou
Back on the Prowl With Sniffies
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While it’s hard to say whether the post–COVID vaccine period will convey on a surge of hedonism like the storied decade that followed the 1918 pandemic, a swift scan of the maskless, largely naked boys of New York’s Jacob Riis Beach on a recent weekend suggests that, at least for the local queer crowd, the ’20s are entering a packed roar, baby. And as bottoms, tops, and N95s hit the floor this Pride month, a fresh hookup website (that’s website, not app) has prepared itself to strut past the more familiar Grindrs and Scruffs on our phones and capitalize on all the horned-up, post-quarantine energy.
Sniffies is an upstart gay hookup site(NSFW!) that’s seeking to harken advocate to the old days of cruising, giving users a freak-forward user interface that shreds the decency mandates of the app stores and allows users to instantly locate the nearest dick or ass floating (literally, as photo icons) around in their neighborhoods on a exist updated GPS map. The approach cuts out the tedious texting and etiquette now so common on the traditio
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Grindr
“You gay bro?”
“Nah just here to network”
Who’s on it? Lots of people. Grindr is international, and guys utilize it to network and chat as often as they employ it to actually facilitate a hook up. At the very least it’s a great way to figure out if that guy at the gym is gay or not.
Best for? Scoping out the scene in a new town, flirting for weeks with someone you’ll never join, getting catfished.
Downsides? Upgrading to Grindr Unlimited is a jaw dropping TWO HUNDRED AND THIRTY NINE DOLLARS per year, money which could alternatively go towards...I don’t know a plane ticket somewhere cool? Like, 75 separate OnlyFans subscriptions? A very welcome donation to the charity of your choice?
Sniffies
“looking?”
“yeah”
“come over”
Who’s on it? Sniffies is a attractive mixed crowd. DL, bi, married, and curious guys are drawn to Sniffies because it’s uncomplicated to be as anonymous as they’d like. It’s also manageable to find glory holes and cruising locales for a rapid hook up. Kinksters and horndogs are