John Paul Bramer

Thank you.

Hey, Chloe.

I'm so happy to be here.

Yeah, I mean, I'm very lucky in that Olapapi started at Grindr.

And so I, you know, didn't take it as a very serious endeavor.

Like I don't have to be Dear Abby here.

In fact, the whole project of Olapapi was me being like, what if I kind of made fun of Dear Abby or like did a satire where like Dear Abby is a gay Latino man on Grindr.

I thought that would be so funny.

But then.

So here's the thing about running an advice column on Grindr where it gets pushed to the apt.

A lot of people on Grindr are in the queer community.

A lot of them are lonely because if you're on Grindr, you're looking for something, right?

And they were like, I have a lot to get off my chest.

And so a lot of these letters were very heartfelt.

They were very poignant.

They made me very emotional.

So, today, even still, the recipe for an Ola Poppy column still has that intention towards humor.

It's baked into its DNA, but it's also a little earnest.

It's a little vulnerable.

It's me sitting down at the bar with you being like, hey, I've been where you've been.