According to AZCentral, roughly 100,000 people attended Kirk’s funeral yesterday, which was held at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona. The 10-hour event featured speeches from the President, Vice President, the President’s son, and, of course, Kirk’s widow, Erika.

It also crashed the world’s biggest gay dating app.

BREAKING: Charlie Kirk's memorial caused a SEVERE Grindr outage in Arizona. pic.twitter.com/LN76j4XVQ4

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— Right Wing Cope (@RightWingCope) September 22, 2025

According to Down Detector, a website that tracks internet traffic and social media outages, the event was so large that Grindr, the gay hookup app, saw significant outages throughout the day. Per screenshots, Grindr experienced a massive influx of traffic at about 7 p.m. on September 21st, jumping from a baseline of two outage reports per hour to roughly 168 such reports per hour, which is an increase of about 8,400 percent.

the concept of putting wheels on a cross to bear… pic.twitter.com/IFFSFS2FO3

— broiled (@broiledcrawfish) September 22, 2025

That’s pretty yuge!