Most recently, this has involved many people choosing to identify as “queer” or using that word as a shorthand to describe the broader community - although some still find this offensive. The LGBTQ community has a long history of reclaiming things that were once used as derogatory slurs against them. (According to a 2012 Slate piece, limp wrists have been deemed “unmanly” since ancient Rome). 41) When your mom out but she calls you while you beating your meat and you gotta make some censored up when she asks what you doing. Your memes are offensive and vulgar, I’m unfriending you. The 18-year-old said he thought the action would be instantly “relatable” to others in the LGBTQ community, even though he also recognized it had offensive roots. 40) Just don’t unfriend these funny dirty memes. BuzzFeed News can’t 100% confirm if Hallows came up with the limp wrist meme, but he was the earliest we could find and recalled devising it as something different from what he had seen trending. ʚ♡ɞ JHonestly, we are Babashook for Babadook.By this time, “Kiss Me More” had been a viral hit on TikTok for months, but that point of the song was mainly used for clips featuring sudden transitions. The babadook and the bye bye man are in a beautiful gay relationship and today is their 17th anniversary Thankfully, Babadook has a boyfriend, the Bye Bye man, to look after him when the pressures of being a gay icon get too much. Babadook's appeal can be put down to the similarities between Babadook's struggles and the continuing tyranny of heterosexuals on planet Earth.īABADOOK: I'm a terrifying monster that destroys families that try to suppress me. She was serving pure Babadook fish with a side of ghoulish realness. Babadook even hit the runway on RuPaul's Drag Race. Self care is insisting that the b in lgbt stands for babadook Haven't we all been a little bit Babadook at one point in our lives? Don't shoot the messenger, henny.Įvery time you tweet "did someone actually get paid to write this" the babadook gets to go to a pride parade Academics are already talking about "Babaculture" ushering in a new paradigm in queer theory.Īs I note in my paper, “Unqueering the ‘Dook: Recapitulation of Hegemonic Narratives in Mainstream Babaculture”, this is typical of The Babadook fought so we could live (h/t /YrIHiKnrUh Many have been surprised to learn of Babadook's long history fighting for LGBTQ rights. Not the ally we wanted but the ally we deserved. Babadook must be protected at all costs.īabadook slander will NOT be tolerated in this house. It didn't take long for the internet to seize upon the "error" and start hailing our ghoulish Babadook bae as "a very important part of queer history" and "not the ally we wanted but the ally we deserved". I think this might have been the origin for "the babadook is gay" /HAjlewk0MI It all started after a film he originally starred in in 2014, The Babadook - an Australian horror film about a grieving mother and son - was mistakenly placed in the LGBT section on Netflix.Ģ5. Babadook has become an internet sensation after a meme about his status as a "gay icon" went viral.