Grindr has released its annual Unwrapped report and the 2025 edition is bigger, gayer, and far more unhinged than ever before.
The roundup pulls data from over one hundred billion chats, nearly thirteen billion taps, and tens of thousands of community votes to paint a picture of queer life across the world.
This year’s celebrity categories delivered some very satisfying results with Jonathan Bailey crowned Hottest Man of the Year after months of the internet collectively thirsting over him.
Adult performer Joey Mills took home Adult Star of the Year which surprised absolutely no one because his fanbase logs in harder than anyone.
Meanwhile Dan and Phil won Gaymer of the Year proving that queer gaming culture is thriving and still very much obsessed with chaos, community, and a good headset.
The global statistics were just as entertaining with Finland named the most likely country to send nudes and the United Kingdom somehow declared the fem top capital of the world.
Popular search tags also shifted this year with “hung” climbing high on the leaderboard and continuing its eternal reign as gay culture’s most predictable trend.
On the pop culture side Lady Gaga secured Mother of the Year while her album Mayhem won Album of the Year reinforcing her position as the patron saint of queer nightlife.
Pedro Pascal swept Daddy of the Year once again because the internet refuses to let go of the man’s chokehold on gay imagination.
The report also highlighted how queer users across cities from London to Seoul shaped trends in hookups, dating, kinks, and identities through sheer volume and variety.
Grindr noted that three times more users participated in the Unwrapped vote this year showing how deeply the community has embraced the annual tradition.
The company described the 2025 edition as the gayest and boldest yet capturing everything from chaotic thirst patterns to heartfelt community moments.
The data also offered lighter insights about where people flirted most, which music they shared, and how queer users decorated their profiles with humor and cultural references.
The combination of celebrity winners, global behavior, and queer pop culture made this year’s Unwrapped feel more like a celebration of identity than a simple report.
It is the kind of roundup that reminds the LGBTQ+ community that even in a messy world queer joy, desire, and connection continue to thrive loudly and unapologetically.
Whether you tapped, chatted, hooked up, or just opened the app to look around this year’s Grindr Unwrapped proves once again that queer culture doesn’t follow trends because it creates them.
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