Looks like Grindr are setting up a trans version... but the name...

[ConfessionsOfTeenageDramaQueen]

They've chosen is "kindr".

Given the disturbing underground usage of the term "kind" is that not an odd choice?

They've not said exactly what the new app is but from the video it does imply it's trans-focused.

Kindr? What does it mean in the context of trans dating?

Kindr, to me, is about children. Kindergarten, kinder eggs etc.

Or kinder- as in being kind.

Kinder is children in German.

Yea I read it as kinder as in the kids eggs and that was just disturbing

Jeez, presumably they've 'focus grouped' the whole premise & no one spotted that?

"Kind" is one of the euphemistic names paedophiles use to refer to themselves

OH Christ!! really? Ive never heard that. Kind as in nice, kind people or kind as in the German word?

Yes you would say it like Kinder ie children.

Yikes that was a stupid thing to do.

Maybe someone will point it out and they will change it?

Kinder is children in German.

My immediate thought too. I can't believe they're unaware of this. In which case WTF are they up to?

I think it's a play on all three.

Sorry I mean both meanings - kind as in nice and kind as in the German.

Just googled

" It also tweeted a link to a website called kindr.grindr.com, which currently only has the voiceover and the tagline: “It's time to play nice.”."

The connection with children is deliberate then.

My mind is totally and utterly boggled. What the actual fuck?

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I would imagine it's said to rhyme with grindr

I've always imagined grindr is pronounced like grind with an r on the end. (To rhyme with wynd).

Munroe Bergdof was supposedly working with Grindr late July after they called out the racism & transphobia. Is this the outcome?

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.billboard.com/amp/articles/news/pride/8467230/munroe-bergdorf-grindr-racist-transphobic-users

Link to bergdorf story

What the fuck?

There's no way they could have not noticed this. Big brands (and Grindr is a big brand) employ people to check out that their new product lines don't have names with unfortunate connotations in other languages. And German is not exactly an obscure language.

and the tagline: “It's time to play nice.”

That’s fucking sick. What’s wrong with them? Do they think that’s a joke?

Oh come on.

Can someone please uncover this as 4chan wind up effort? Because for someone to think this is fine has all sorts of consequences about the world that I don't really want to acknowledge.

This....this can't be serious?!

I was just a little sick in my mouth

www.pinknews.co.uk/2018/07/27/grindr-racism-kindr-announcment/

There is a pink news article from July

Bit more about it here:

www.gaytimes.co.uk/news/111458/grindr-hints-at-new-kindr-version-of-the-dating-app-to-tackle-discrimination/

I think it's supposed to be "kinder" as in rhymes with "Grindr", not "kinder" as in the German for children. But obviously not a great choice.