Yes it does. The notification noise is actually linked in a couple of other comments in this thread. I'm ace so I've never used the app personally but it's rather distinctive to at least my ear and unlike any notification noise I've ever heard in a default Android environment. idk about Apple, but after hearing the noise myself I 100% believe that anyone who has used that app for any appreciable amount of time would absolutely recognize that notification noise immediately.

Nobody should ever do anything because WHAT IF?!?!!

idk, this might just be me being ace and not understanding the tribulations of people that actually have a desire to have sex. But as a trans person who has been in the closet, I can't imagine going on Grindr if I was gay but still living with conservative parents and closeted. That feels like a risk I'd be way too scared to take.

I'm also always down to use my experience being closeted against bigots. As has at least 90% of gay men I've known. Like yeah, making my identity/sexuality The Joke feels bad. But I feel like when that joke is being played specifically on a bigot a lot of us get a lot of catharsis from it. Cuz at that point the joke isn't "Being gay is bad" it's "Welcome to the family cousin Jed" and the punchline is their freaking out about it.

idk I'm kinda rambling now. I just feel like it's different because in a lot of these cases it is the queer kids that were closeted and made fun of that are saying "Wouldn't it be funny if we turned it around on them for once?"

why would the conservative parents know what it sounds like