The Grindr conversation a Twitter user named Mathiu had with a former high school classmate on Christmas Day seemed sugar-plum sweet… until the classmate made it clear that he wanted his stocking stuffed, so to speak.
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“Hey! This may be weird to say on Christmas and I don’t know if you remember me but I wanted to say that you were a big role model to me in high school,” the classmate wrote, according to Grindr screenshots Mathiu shared on Twitter on December 25. “It was nice to see somebody gay out and thriving. My parents always thought you were like a perfect student so when they found out you were gay I feel like it made it easier for me to come out.”
Mathiu was clearly touched. “Aww, that’s very kind of you to say!” he wrote back. “I hope things are good with you and your family and you are having a wonderful holiday.”
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Three minutes later, however, the classmate replied with — cómo se dice — a rear-view photo Mathiu had to censor for social media. “It would really be significant for me if you would f*ck me,” the classmate wrote, adding a smirking emoji.
— mathiu (@crabsgonewild) December 25, 2019
Mathiu didn’t caption the screenshots — later tweeting, “For once I am speechless” — but revealed to one Twitter user that he didn’t fulfill the guy’s “significant” request. “It was the day of our Savior’s birth and I chose to give my energy back to Him instead,” he wrote.
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Twitter users had jokes, of course.
That went from role model to hole model REAL QUICK 🤡😭🤤 pic.twitter.com/6p3Kp2Pu48
— no you can’t have my cuchi (@baebyslut69) December 27, 2019
With all the formalities covered it’s on to business. 😂😂
— Steven (@stemercer1982) December 27, 2019
Spelling bee: The word is “significant”
Contestant: could you use it in a sentence?
Spelling bee: it would be really significant for me if you would f*ck me.— willyam🏳️🌈”Don’t mess with me” (@wbl_wbl) December 29, 2019
stonewall was a mistake
— Sam Reisman (@samreisman) December 25, 2019
And Mathiu gave his side of the experience in a follow-up interview with PinkNews. “I was really flattered and honored by the message because I remember how hard it was not having queer role models in school and I felt happy I was able to be that for someone,” he told the site.
Mathiu also said that the Grindr user’s profile was blank, so he has no idea which classmate messaged him. “I was a hyper-involved academic gay, so he could’ve been in any number of clubs or sports teams,” he said. “By the hole pic, though, I’m guessing we crossed paths in theater.”
Vince
Dude you’re on freaking Grindr. It’s a sex site. If honoring the birth of Jesus or Christmas or whatever was so important to you what were you doing on it in the first place?
shannestad
Absolutely
dhmonarch89
about to say exactly the same thing.
1898
i believe he was engaging in this new thing young people are doing, called “sarcasm”
Vince
“revealed to one Twitter user that he didn’t fulfill the guy’s “significant” request. “It was the day of our Savior’s birth and I chose to give my energy back to Him instead,” he wrote.”
Do you know him because I don’t see the sarcasm.
Grandolphrz
I don’t see the sarcasm either. The guy was trying to be all holy just because it was Christmas. The former classmate was just trying to be all hole.
Man About Town
“It was the day of our Savior’s birth and I chose to give my energy back to Him instead.” The mind reels, and it reminds me of an old quote of Madonna’s: “Crucifixes are sexy because there’s a naked man on them.”
domen8r
“crossed paths in theater”—second that motion. With a codicil re: dance majors/gymnasts.
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
Hey Jerky, based on that pic, he wanted more than “energy”…
And I’d definitely hit that
🙂
Goforit
Sounds to me like that classmate dodged a bullet. “Out and proud” on one hand and “born again” on the other. Chances are that there is a major head-on collision coming down that road.
jsteinbee
Well sec Xmas is over and it. A new year will you dm and see about getting together with and see what happens I mean never know
ShiningSex
THIS IS A STUPID STORY. FIRST OFF, WHAT DO YOU EXPECT FROM GRINDR? SECOND, HE’S PROBABLY A BOTTOM TOO AND THAT’S WHY HE DIDN’T RESPOND TO HIS REQUEST.
Hussain-TheCanadian
ROFL!! I almost choked on my coffee.
TimothyBeauchamp
On Grindr? Was he proselytizing on Grindr? Otherwise, it’s a SEX SITE and he needs to sit down, emjoy the ass pic and STFU!
Chevelter
It was the day of our savior’s birth? BARF. Really? And if you really believe that, you choose to be on Grindr that day?
just me
and then he went and role modeled how to be a complete douche. for all we know the guy who contacted him had a huge crush and they were on grindr, not on er… the knitting club app. He could have rejected the guy gently without humiliating him on twitter, but no, he had to show that he wasn’t just out and proud but also a mean shit.
RandomGuy
Grindr really turns guys into baboons.
gavo92
I never had grindr, but isn’t it like a sex app? but that was funny a iil bit.
Paulie P
Is nothing private anymore? Why be a douche and post the conversation on your twitter? He was speaking to you on a hook up app and he took it public.
The savior himself would not like that betrayal, Judas.
LilMesican
“It was the day of our Savior’s birth and I chose to give my energy back to Him instead,”
Is ‘Savior’ code for his partner, sugar daddy, other Grindr date? And ‘giving my energy back…” code for ‘it’s his turn to Top?
Cause you can’t BS us and claim to be that spiritual if you were on the app yourself.
Girl, who you think you’re kidding?
Grandolphrz
He must have thought he was on Christian Mingle dot com.
Patrick
I would be incredibly flattered to receive those message from a former classmate! And, I can think of about a dozen guys each from high school & from college that I would be happy to oblige!
GeorgeMTL
Come on.. he was joking about the Christmas thing. The fact they he made the theatre joke after confirms that he’s talking tongue-in-cheek. Just not his highschool friend’s cheeks 🙂