Rightwing personality Charlie Kirk's memorial service took place in Glendale, Arizona, on Sunday. And, surely by complete coincidence, Grindr experienced outages in the area around the same time.Reports claim that tens of thousands of people attended the memorial for the controversial podcaster, with high-level MAGA politicians and other public figures flying in from across the country to attend. Republicans were quick to try to pin Kirk's killing on trans people and "trans ideology" before a suspect was even in custody, and Kirk himself had made plenty of negative remarks about the LGBTQ+ community during his life.In completely unrelated news, there were over 168 reports of Grindr outages on Sunday evening, a staggering increase from the baseline number of two. A heat map showed a large concentration of those problems taking place in the Glendale area. The outages have continued through Monday morning, at one point reaching over 200 reports. (@) Despite these two events clearly having absolutely nothing to do with one another, social media users are, for some unfathomable reason, drawing a link between them. (@) (@) (@) (@) One TikToker also shared a screenshot allegedly from the Sniffies app at State Farm Stadium shortly before Kirk's memorial began. @hopeisforpeopleReplying to @rae.rae.red You cant make this stuff up lol #charliekirk #phoenix #arizona #statefarmstadium #fypIt's so weird, how there appears to have been a gathering of mourners at the stadium AND a gathering of gays looking for hookups in the same place at the same time. You'd think the stadium would have been better about not accidentally double-booking such a monumental event, televised live on ABC wait, sorry, I meant YouTube.Anyway, surely none of this means anything at all. Coincidences are so much fun! from chaoticgood (@) from lgbt from lgbt from lgbt from chaoticgoodIn all seriousness, obviously Republicans can be LGBTQ+ and LGBTQ+ can themselves be homophobic and/or transphobic and support policies & people who work against their own well-being. Some people think calling out an uptick in Grindr usage in areas where Republicans are gathered is somehow in and of itself homophobic, but there's a difference between pointing out this visible absurdity versus just saying "haha, this specific homophobe is probably a closet gay." The latter absolves straight people of responsibility for doing harm to the LGBTQ+ community with a repetitive "joke" insinuating that the call is always coming from inside the closet, while the former points out real, visible hypocrisy.Or, you know, it's just all one big old coincidence.PRIDE reached out to Grindr for comment but did not hear back at the time of publication.