It’s an age-old question: Who’s better at getting phone numbers on dating apps, gays or straights?
Related: Watch What Happens When Hetero Men Get “Caught” On Grindr
OK, it isn’t really an age-old question. It’s not even an age-new question — nobody really cares.
But it made a good premise for YouTuber Openly Jake to convince his straight best friend to download and start using Grindr.
How about we take this to the next level?
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The two square off on who can get a phone number from a guy on Grindr and a girl on Tinder. Spoiler alert: gay, 02; straight, 00. We could have called that one.
Watch below:
GayMafiaKingpin
I’m betting the phone number he got was from a bot on Grindr.
Stan Schulz
Why would you want to do this ð??? ? Slow news day?
OpenlyJake
@GayMafiaKingpin: Is that like a tribe? Bots. haha. What would a bot on Grindr be for? Is that like a virus?? I hadn’t used it before, I don’t totally get it.
OpenlyJake
@Stan Schulz: Right!? I don’t think it’s any news that I’d beat a youtuber like Colin Wiley at my “Dating App Dash”. I should’ve asked another gay youtuber to do it with me. The heat would be ON. Or just run some of the other pointed vlogs I made about bigotry and hate laws that plague America… country for the free straight white male!
Evji108
Not a fair test, one of them is way better looking.
OpenlyJake
@Evji108: I was intimidated by Colin’s skillz I swear…. I just thought.. he would… like… pull it together or… something…
kurt_t
You kids have it too easy. In my day if we wanted to hook up we had to rub our 501 jeans for hours on end with steaming hot water and SOS pads and check five different newspapers every Friday to find out what ships were in port that weekend. Sometimes we all had to share the same unshaven, grease spattered crew of a Bulgarian Freighter. And we were happy to have it.
OpenlyJake
@kurt_t: Haha. I love how you put that. Dating is no easier… just more accessible… same spattered Bulgarians to sift through. <3<3
polarisfashion
I have a straight friend that would probably do this with me. The problem is that he is a regular Casanova and is always bragging about how many women he gets!
OpenlyJake
@polarisfashion: That would be the point of schooling him! haha. take his casanova down a few pegs and make a video out of it!!
skcord
@kurt_t: 501’s, hot water and SOS pads?!?!?! Please explain for us younger folk….
OpenlyJake
@skcord: 501s are skinny jeans… Levi’s no? hot water and SOS pads make them look more fashionable??? maybe? haha. I’m into it. I love levis.
skcord
@OpenlyJake: 501’s are considered skinny? Straight leg maybe, not skinny…. Otherwise that means I wear skinny jeans and that’s humiliating on a grown man. I’m guessing he’s referencing a method of distressing denim, but not 100% sure….
OpenlyJake
@skcord: ok yes youre right. haha
Nick Helliwell
Nathan Helliwell
kurt_t
@skcord, well, it’s like meatloaf. Everybody has a slightly different method, but as long as you understand the underlying principles, you’ll have a satisfactory outcome. Now, the way my mentors taught me is you fill a bathtub with the water hot enough that the wallpaper in your bathroom starts to curl. Then you sit down in the bathtub in your brand new 501s and rub the areas that you want to distress with your SOS pad. Normally, these will be the seat, knees and groin. (Some guys will opt for a protective cup for that part, but purists will stress the importance performing the whole process in “commando” mode.)
OzJosh
So good looking. Yet so unattractive.
K Patrick McCarthy
Who is trying to convince their straight friends to cruise grindr?
Sluggo2007
A very obnoxious video. I had to turn it off halfway through.
kurt_t
@Sluggo2007, well, you have to give Jake credit for opening up a long overdue dialogue about 501s and SOS pads.
notevenwrong
Just what the world needs. Even more catfishing on Grindr than it already has.
OpenlyJake
@kurt_t: you’re amazing, hahahaha
OpenlyJake
@OzJosh: 😉