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Contents:

• DISNEY'S FIRST GAY CHARACTER
• HACKS STAR MEG STALTER RETURNS TO TERRORIZE RPORATE PRI MPAIGNS 'HI GAY!' MEME SEQUEL
• 27 GAY MEM SURE TO MAKE ANYONE LGH
• WOULDN'T THAT MAKE YOU GAY?
• SENOR CHANG'S "HA, GAY!"
• MEET M3GAN, THE GAY INTER’S NEW HORROR OBSSN
• THE EDIAN BEHD THAT VIRAL ‘HI GAY!’ MEME IS BACK WH ANOTHER VID, JT TIME FOR PRI MONTH
• LU FANS ARE NVCED 'S A GAY LOVE STORY AND THE MEM ARE INIC

DISNEY'S FIRST GAY CHARACTER

\u201cthey ma Pocch gay and on xanax\u201d — Evan (@Evan). Disney's First Gay Character is a joke cycle about the cliché where media outlets repeatedly announce that a new Disney property will feature their "first (openly) gay character. " The mem began after Disney promised an "exclively gay moment" the 2017 Bety and the Beast adaptatn, and ntued through the year 2022 after several films clud brief appearanc by implicly gay characters.

In early 2017, discsns about Disney's 2017 remake of Bety and the Beast havg an "exclively gay moment" began to circulate.

HACKS STAR MEG STALTER RETURNS TO TERRORIZE RPORATE PRI MPAIGNS 'HI GAY!' MEME SEQUEL

On Feb 28th, 2017, Twter[1] acunt @playbill posted a tweet referencg a now leted[2] Attu Magaze terview wh the film's director Bill Condon where he says, "But is a nice, exclively gay moment a Disney movie. Disney ntued to announce var "first openly gay characters" nsecutive years, often wh ltle to no impact to the plot of the story. In 2016, Zootopia and Fdg Dory both had brief meos om a supposedly gay[6] (see below, left) and lbian (see below, right) uple.

Disney had more implicly unnamed gay character appearanc later movi, cludg a man grievg the loss of his hband the "snap" Avengers: Endgame, and an unnamed lbian uple fortg their child the background of a scene Toy Story 4. However, Disney's first named gay character was Specter, a lbian cyclops police officer the 2020 film Onward. At this pot, people began noticg the repetive trend of Disney announcg their "first" gay characters.

27 GAY MEM SURE TO MAKE ANYONE LGH

On March 29th, 2020, Reddor[8] tillerss posted a meme about Disney's "first" gay characters to /r/starterpacks, gatherg over 34, 000 upvot over two years (seen below). In early 2020, the Tumblr page urfaveisdisneysfirstgaycharacter began postg fan requted imag announcg random characters as Disney's first gay characters. In 2021, discsns about the film Cella featurg the first openly gay Disney character began to circulate.

In 2022, Disney revealed their first "openly gay teenage character, " the 2022 film Strange World.

WOULDN'T THAT MAKE YOU GAY?

This unleashed another wave of reactns to Disney's new "first" gay character. Hi gay!

SENOR CHANG'S "HA, GAY!"

Meg Stalter Pri spoof Meg Stalter has returned wh a sequel to her stantly inic 'Hi Gay! | Cred: Meg Stalter/Twter "Hi gay, happy Pri Month! We're back at the Butter Shop, queens, and we go goo-goo, ga-ga for gay, " Stalter says.

" "We thk that gay people are okay, at least for the next 30 days, " Stalter says at the end of the clip before puttg on a pair of rabow sunglass. Also, I l a ndle for every person that I know that looked gay.

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MEET M3GAN, THE GAY INTER’S NEW HORROR OBSSN

Moizg gay people. Wouldn't That Make You Gay?

Refers to a seri of screenshots om the 2014 animated film The Pengus of Madagasr of the pengus stg a life raft, wh Skipper subtled as sayg, "wouldn't that make you gay? " Startg 2018 the imag beme a popular image macro, wh the word "gay" often changed. Tmp, wouldn't that make you gay?

On October 22nd, 2018, @nass_is_secretly_a_pikm upload the isolated clip of Skipper sayg, "wouldn't that make you gay?

THE EDIAN BEHD THAT VIRAL ‘HI GAY!’ MEME IS BACK WH ANOTHER VID, JT TIME FOR PRI MONTH

On January 5th, 2019, Cellular Lels upload an image macro to the I'm Not Straight / Okay, Maybe I Am Straight entry on Know Your Meme[6] featurg screenshots of Skipper stg the life raft wh subtl readg, "wouldn't that make you gay? On July 7th, 2019, /u/QutForDty upload an image macro to /r/dankmem[7] wh the tle, "Wouldn’t that make you GAY? " g a close-up screenshot of Skipper sayg "gay" om the vio, garnerg over 130 upvot a year and a half (shown below, left).

LU FANS ARE NVCED 'S A GAY LOVE STORY AND THE MEM ARE INIC

For example, on January 22nd, 2021, /u/Zaniak88 ma a post tled, "I diagnose you wh gay" to /r/dankmem[10] g the pengu imag, garnerg over 46, 800 upvot 22 days (shown below, left). As the meme grew populary, ers began replacg the word "gay" to expand on the possibili of the format and keep h.

Senor Chang's "Gayyyyy" refers to a quote attributed to the fictnal character Señor Ben Chang the TV s seri Communy.