A gay man is sug a Spir Halloween store after a manager lled him a slur, berated him for tryg to wear 'women's cloth,' and chased him om the store when he threatened to file a plat.
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- SPIR HALLOWEEN MAK IT CLEAR: THEY DO NOT SELL 'GAY LOSER' COSTUM DPE WHAT MEM SAY
- SPIR HALLOWEEN HAS TO KEEP APOLOGIZG FOR THIS HILAR, FAKE “GAY GUY” STUME
- NO, SPIR HALLOWEEN DON’T SELL ‘GAY GUY’ STUM. COMPANY RPONDS TO VIRAL POSTS
- GAY MAN SU SPIR HALLOWEEN STORE CHARLTON AFTER MANAGER LLED HIM A GAY SLUR
SPIR HALLOWEEN MAK IT CLEAR: THEY DO NOT SELL 'GAY LOSER' COSTUM DPE WHAT MEM SAY
This, as expected of social media, led to some people not unrstandg the difference between a meme and a real licensed product, purportedly even takg offense to some of the mem such as "Gay Guy" that had a man wh a Pri Flag draped across his shoulrs. Simply tled “Gay Guy, ” the stume qutn picts a cute guy wh buzzed and bleached hair wearg a tank top tucked to some light-wash jeans, draped a Pri flag.
But the “Gay Guy, ” particular, found s way to Twter where ’s quickly taken on a life of s own. As the “Gay Guy” ntu to make the rounds, has spired yet another wave of fake stum om photoshop-enabled jokters—many of which are holdg a mirror up to the queer muny. “Gay Loser” has bee an pecially popular sub-genre of the meme, but we’ve got to hand to this one, noddg to Our Flag Means Death, one the year’s bt (and surprisgly queert) edi:.
And, fally (for now), someone cid to drag our favore pop star Lil Nas X to , referencg the orange look he wore to the Variety Hmaker Bnch 2019 wh the stume name “Gay Person In Terrible Outf. Subscribe to Queerty for a daily dose of #life #gayguy #halloween stori and more. Over the weekend, a seri of tweets showg fake "gay guy" stum that look like they were beg sold by seasonal stume retailer Spir Halloween went viral on social media.
SPIR HALLOWEEN HAS TO KEEP APOLOGIZG FOR THIS HILAR, FAKE “GAY GUY” STUME
The stum varied om "gay guy" to "gay loser" to "gay person terrible outf. The spooky seasonal retailer is assurg ctomers that they have never sold a 'Gay Guy' outf. And Lil Nas X had a hilar reply to beg turned to the mol for the “gay person terrible outf” stume.
But the populary of fake getups that clud “Gay, ” “Lbian” and “Bisexual” the scriptn led to some nfn — and headach for Spir Halloween self. One Twter er, apparently believg a phony “Gay Guy” stume they’d seen onle was real, mand an explanatn om the rporate acunt. It’s not the first time Spir Halloween had to disavow the “Gay Guy” stume, eher.
Another meme that picted actor Rhys Darby’s character the HBO seri Our Flag Means Death as a “Gay Loser” stume irrated his wife, Rosie Carnahan-Darby, who lled “” and said they would have to voice Spir Halloween for the e of his image. Though the trend origated 2019, saw a signifint spike age durg the 2022 Spooktober season when people created humoro stum such as "Tech Tip Man" or "Gay Loser. Wh Halloween jt around the rner, a new meme template has taken over the ter wh some hilar stume you’ve ever drsed up for the season, you’ll probably be faiar wh the Spir Halloween brand’s orange stume packagg which featur a scriptn of the stume and an image of what looks like on the typil social media style, Twter ers have got creative and photoshopped some funny pictur and stume scriptns on the packagg as part of a new topil meme ahead of the spooky Twter shared a photoshopped stume package which scribed as a “gay loser” and featured a picture of himself on .
NO, SPIR HALLOWEEN DON’T SELL ‘GAY GUY’ STUM. COMPANY RPONDS TO VIRAL POSTS
And, they’re givg Spir Halloween’s PR team a massive headache, bee no, they did not actually create a stume lled “Gay Loser. Dpe what you may have seen onle, Spir Halloween don’t sell a “Gay Guy” pany keeps havg to rpond to crlo posts on social media om ers who don’t seem to be aware of the “Fake Spir Halloween Costum” meme, which people photoshop parodi of Spir Halloween trend started 2019, but popped back up this month durg spooky season the n-up to Halloween. KnowYourMeme ced parody stum such as “Tech Tip Man” or “Gay Loser.
GAY MAN SU SPIR HALLOWEEN STORE CHARLTON AFTER MANAGER LLED HIM A GAY SLUR
“Never shoppg here ever aga, ” one er wrote to go along wh the photoshopped “Gay Loser” stume. ”But some ers appeared to be genuely upset when they stumbled upon one that showed a person wh a rabow flag draped over their shoulrs and the words “Gay Guy” next to the image.
Someone appeared to photoshop a picture of the sger wearg bright orange pants and a loud prted orange shirt, and tled the fake stume “gay person terrible outf. As we ntue to approach Halloween, a brand-new meme template based on humoro stume ias has dropped on social meme utiliz the ever-faiar Spir Halloween stume bag, centered around showg off humoro or unexpected drs-up of the early ntributns to the trend volved a er makg a self-pretg joke about beg the face of a “gay loser” stume. In one stance, outraged rpons to an image where the fake stume is jt labeled “Gay Guy” prompted the store to state, “This is not an officially licensed stume om our will be passg this to our review team.
” Among a specifilly LGBTQ dience I n image the “Gay Guy” meme beg ployed wh great effect, mockg the offensive stereotyp that the Halloween dtry so-often hg on. Elsewhere on the ter, there are obvly ls-wholome, more homophobic ways the meme might be posted. But I, upset re-postgs of the “Gay Guy” “stume” also prompted Spir’s media team to clarify “This is not somethg we rry or have rried before.