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Back on the Prowl With Sniffies
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While it’s hard to say whether the post–COVID vaccine period will transport on a surge of hedonism like the storied decade that followed the pandemic, a quick scan of the maskless, largely naked boys of Fresh York’s Jacob Riis Beach on a recent weekend suggests that, at least for the local queer crowd, the ’20s are entering a full roar, baby. And as bottoms, tops, and N95s smash the floor this Pride month, a new hookup website (that’s website, not app) has poised itself to strut past the more familiar Grindrs and Scruffs on our phones and capitalize on all the horned-up, post-quarantine energy.
Sniffies is an upstart gay hookup site(NSFW!) that’s seeking to harken back to the old days of cruising, giving users a freak-forward user interface that shreds the decency mandates of the app stores and allows users to instantly locate the nearest dick or ass floating (literally, as photo icons) around in their neighborhoods on a live updated
How Sniffies Saved Cruising
“Is this a Grindr thing?”
A female answers her door in curlers. The man knocking tries to explain: He’s supposed to be meeting up with someone from a, uh, “guy on guy” ad. He’s been given the wrong address, apparently, and his intended “guy”—one who advertised himself as having a penchant for being on the receiving end of many other guys—is instead a perplexed woman with no intention of hosting. To add to the confusion, the “Grindr thing” was actually a botched rendezvous facilitated by something called … Sniffies. This cringetastic interaction—which the woman in curlers filmed—now has over 7 million views on TikTok. And understandably, it has prompted the unenlightened commentariat to inquire: What the fuck is Sniffies?
Today, Sniffies is a web-based app for men looking for sex with other men, often in common spaces—what traditionalists would notify “cruising.” The site actually started as an underwear trading platform, but in , founder Blake Gallagher repurposed the website into a literal heat map for men of the liking-men persuasion.* Manhattan, fo
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Sniffies is a map-based hookup app for gay and bi men. The platform caters to ‘Cruisers’, men who are walking or driving about certain areas looking for a casual connection.
Sniffies sets itself apart from other apps such as Grindr because it is specific about its value: creating hookups. Eli Martin, the platform&#;s Chief Marketing Officer, told Slate Magazine:
&#;Grindr’s really become love a Facebook. It’s enjoy you can go on there and you can find anything. You can find a boyfriend; you can maybe sell a car. Who knows, uncover your best friend. But Sniffies is superspecific. You’re going on there to find guys, have these intimate experiences&#;&#;.
The platform provides users with a adj time map that is updated to show nearby Cruisers, popular meeting spots, and active groups. As part of its casual vibe, the platform has multiple options to defend privacy and anonymise interactions between users.
Unless you signal up to Sniffies Plus, users will automatically exhibit up on the true time map when using the app. However, the app won’t display users’ actual location, instead adjus