9 funny situations for the gays to activate Vanilla Mode on Sniffies

This one’s for the discreetly horny gays!

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Sniffies has taken pride in marketing itself as a very inclusive, sex-positive, and shame-free platform for horny LGBTQ+ guys to get together and hook up. The app allows users to DM others, join group chats, and set up hookups with one person or a whole group.

The app has also positioned itself as the digital evolution of “cruising,” so that it allows many kinds of kinky interests and explicit pictures on the platform. Unlike most of its competitors, which try their best to focus on “dating” if they’re primarily used just for hooking up, Sniffies has always gone all-in on embracing the horniness and not making any excuses for it.

This week, the app launched a brand-new feature called Vanilla Mode, which is a toggle that you can turn on or off. Once activated, Vanilla Mode will blur any explicit images that might show on the app — so you can continue to use Sniffies without the risk of any penis or ass showing on your screen.

Some cruisers that use Sniffies might find Vanilla Mode to be contradictory given that part of the “fun” in cruising is the potential to “get caught.” On the other hand, we can absolutely think of a few times and places when perhaps Vanilla Mode is exactly what you should be turning on…

Scroll through to check out a few funny situations that might benefit from you turning on the Vanilla Mode feature now available on Sniffies!

While visiting your parents-in-law.

If you open up Sniffies while visiting your parents-in-law, it’s possible that you’re in an open relationship with your man, which isn’t always an easy conversation to have with family. You could also be cheating on him… which can be, uh, tricky! Or you could even be closeted and married to a woman. Sticky situation! For all of these cases, maybe Vanilla Mode is for you.

At the supermarket.

You’re supposed to be at the supermarket shopping for actual eggplants and peaches. There are also people from all different walks of life shopping for food there, so it’s probably not the best for the “eggplants” and “peaches” be visibly popping up in the produce department and not on your phone, sis.

During a job interview.

When you go into the interview for a new job and the HR person asks you about your goals, you are not supposed to repeat the “any hole is a goal” meme! Just… don’t do it! Maybe put the Sniffies down for the interview, or at least turn on Vanilla Mode.