About

Behind Every Gay Person Is a Gayer, More Evil Gay Person is a tweet by Anania Williams that went viral in early January 2023. The tweet inspired users to quote-retweet the catchphrase with images of gay couples and popular straight same-sex ship pairings in which one or both characters could be considered evil, one more evil than the other, also becoming a copypasta in the following days.

Origin

On January 1st, 2023, Twitter^[1] user @Anania00 posted, "behind every gay person is a gayer, more evil gay person," garnering over 72,000 likes and 26,000 quote tweets in four days (shown below).

Twitter users began commenting and quote-tweeting images of popular gay couples and characters, as well as straight same-sex ship pairings, under the tweet over the following days. Some of the earliest examples were posted on January 2nd, including by Twitter^[2] @finalbri, who quote-tweeted the post with an image of Stu and Billy from Scream, garnering over 93,000 likes in three days (shown below).

Spread

The meme continued to spread over the following days, largely over quote-retweets to the original post. On January 3rd, 2023, Twitter^[3] user @FreeLikeBrit posted a photo of Nate and his dad from Euphoria, the latter of whom secretly has affairs on his wife with young men and trans people, garnering over 241,000 likes and 22,000 retweets in two days (shown below). On January 4th, Twitter^[4] user @lucimcu posted a photo of Sherlock Holmes and Moriarty under the tweet, garnering over 13,000 likes in a day. Later that day, Pink News^[5] reported on the trend.

The meme also gained spread on Instagram and Facebook, mostly through reposts of tweets. For example, on January 4th, Instagram^[6] user godimsuchadyke posted a tweet from their own account with a photo of Jenny and Marina from The L Word garnering over 20,000 likes in a day. On the same day, Facebook^[7] page Chinh and the cursed life posted an edit attaching the tweet text to an image from Hunter x Hunter, garnering over 2,200 reactions and 150 shares in a day (shown below).

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