This is a perfect example of someone using statistics to come to a bad conclusion.

The problem is that you don't understand internet infrastructure. You're coming to a false conclusion because you are assuming something to be true that isn't. So you are starting from a faulty premise. All reasoning can be sound afterwards and still give you the wrong answer.

You are assuming that internet website's and apps have outages independent of one another. That a site "going down" is only caused by the servers being overwhelmed with traffic that is directly requesting interaction with that one specific server.

And this is just not true in the slightest. Even for "self hosted" websites. Internet infrastructure (especially in America with no net neutrality) is heavily dependent on the ISP prioritizing some packets over other packets. It is an extremely priority driven system that is far too complex to come to conclusions on with this single chart showing USER REPORTS (another unreliable factor) of outages.

So you can ChatGPT me all the responses you like. But you still haven't addressed this very simple point: A WEBSITE DOES NOT EXPERIENCE OUTAGES ONLY BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE USING THAT SPECIFIC WEBSITE A LOT. Your grandmas art website can experience outages because of high usage in the same area.

Like I said. That same day and location websites and apps of all kinds experienced outages due to the spike in traffic from the event. Unless you have ISP data (you don't), showing which servers were causing the largest spike in usage, you can't come to the conclusion you are coming to.

You're trying really hard to prove something. So you are making an assumption and keep ignoring that you are in your replies.

I'm simply saying: there is not enough data to come to a conclusion one way or the other. We have no idea if Grindr went had outages due to Republicans using the it a lot OR if because Republicans just just caused a spike in Internet usage that made the connection to Grindr unreliable.

And given the statistics of gay/bi men being 5% of the total population. Its really heavily weighted in favor of the 95% of other people just using the internet a lot. Well, 100%, because gay/bi men also use the internet for non Grindr related stuff.