Has the paradigm changed for gay bars?

[Buzzer]

As for social media as a means hooking up and dating... I had such bad experiences trying to fit in as "me" on them and not get constantly bombed by guys wanting to hook up or do cam sex that I QUIT it all and deleted my profiles. Contrast that with GS, I've been a member here for FOUR months and only ONE guy (a one-day only newbie) tried to hit on me about sex. That's why I'm here to stay.

If gay bars and social outlets are closing up on some kind of mass level across the country, and if the primary reason for it is the ease of things like apps, to me it would just be a sad commentary on how many American gay men conceive of being a gay man as just being about hooking up for sex. Because that's realistically all anyone is doing on the app circuit.

If it's happening in America and not so much in Australia or elsewhere, that would be the culprit, I think.