Grindr Unwrapped 2023: Padam, Jennifer Coolidge, 'Gimme One Margarita' reign supreme
What do "Padam Padam," Heartstopper, and "These gays, they're trying to murder me" have in common?
They're all major moments in 2023's Grindr Unwrapped.
Move over, Spotify Wrapped. It's Grindr's time to unwrap. Literally.
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The app app for gay, bi, trans, and queer people surveyed more than 10,000 users on their favourite pop culture moments of 2023, and analysed anonymous activity data from its 13 million monthly users worldwide.
The Gay Gasp of the Year was voted Troye Sivan’s drag in the "One of Your Girls" video.
Users voted "Padam Padam" by Kylie Minogue as Song of the Year, and her album Tension was also voted Album of the Year. Heartstopper was named Show of the Year, while Greta Gerwig's Barbie was voted Movie of the Year.
Biggest IJBOL (I just burst out laughing) of the Year? Jennifer Coolidge as pleading for her life with "These gays, they’re trying to murder me" in the White Lotus. Special mention to "Gimme One Margarita, I’ma Open My Legs," which came in at number two, Timothée Chalamet as Wonka at number three, "Angela Bassett did the thing" at number four, and the M3GAN dance at number five.
The Biggest Babygirl of the year? Why, Harry Styles of course! Followed in close second by Pedro Pascal, and 3rd by Jacob Elordi. That's so babygirl of them.
Beyoncé was voted Mother of the Year. Mother was most certainly Mothering.
Henry Cavill was deemed Hottest Man of the Year, while Kim Petras winning a Grammy was named as the biggest LGBTQ win of the year.
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Grindr Unwrapped also revealed some juicy insights about its users. Sunday at 6 p.m. was found to be the most active day and time on the app. And London was Grindr's most explored city.
👀 was the most popular emoji.
Trinidad and Tobago has the highest percentage of tops, while South Korea had the largest number of bottoms. Finland reigned supreme with the biggest number of vers, Singapore had the most sides, Ireland had the most femme tops, and France had the most hung bottoms.
It's certainly been quite the year!
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Rachel Thompson is the Features Editor at Mashable. Rachel's second non-fiction book The Love Fix: Reclaiming Intimacy in a Disconnected World is out now, published by Penguin Random House in Jan. 2025. The Love Fix explores why dating feels so hard right now, why we experience difficult emotions in the realm of love, and how we can change our dating culture for the better.
A leading sex and dating writer in the UK, Rachel has written for GQ, The Guardian, The Sunday Times Style, The Telegraph, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Stylist, ELLE, The i Paper, Refinery29, and many more.
Rachel's first book Rough: How Violence Has Found Its Way Into the Bedroom And What We Can Do About It, a non-fiction investigation into sexual violence was published by Penguin Random House in 2021.
