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Gay Immigrant Muslim Furry Romance refers to a viral tweet promoting a gay immigrant Muslim furry romance to "help resist" Donald Trump's administration during his first week as the United States president in January 2017. The tweet has sparked numerous jokes, parodies and memes on social media, in a similar tone as the Solo Polyamorous Hijabi Amputee meme. The tweet resurfaced in January 2025 after Trump won the 2024 United States Presidential Election.

Origin

On January 13th, 2017, X^[1] page @Slate posted an illustration of a furry cheetah looking at a vintage camera for sale, captioning "Looking for a book to help resist Trump? Try this gay immigrant Muslim furry romance." The tweet (seen below) amassed more than 4,700 likes and 5,400 reposts in eight years.

The novel mentioned in the tweet is written by Kyell Gold, titled "The Time He Desires." Gold told Slate magazine^[4] that he wrote this book "in part as a response to the wave of Islamophobia in this country,” explaining in an author’s note, “never dreaming at the time that it would crest as it has now.”

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The tweet has since gained viral attention on social media, as people reposted the original tweet during Trump's 2024 United States Presidential Election. For instance, on September 2nd, 2023, X^[2] user @ posted the Domino Effect meme with a screenshot of the gay immigrant Muslim furry romance tweet and Trump's face at the end of the domino (seen below), which garnered roughly 190,000 views and 8,600 likes in two years.

On January 13th, 2025, X^[3] user @CursedModernism posted the furry romance tweet, celebrating eight years since @Slate made the original post (seen below), which reignited the meme's popularity on the platform, amassing more than 2.5 million views and 107,000 likes in a day.

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