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I Am Going To Create An Environment That Is So Toxic is a quote by Sue Sylvester from the 2010s musical television show Glee. The line became a reaction image in 2020 primarily on Twitter, where users paired the line with various captions and used text blackout to change the image itself.

Origin

The quote comes from episode seven of Glee, "Throwdown," which aired October 14th, 2009^[1] (shown below).

On January 20th, 2020, Facebook user Sapphire Gray posted a subtitled still of the scene, receiving over 4,600 shares in a year (shown below, left). On June 27th, 2020, Twitter user @elmotumbokon^[2] posted the image on Twitter as an anti-meme (shown below, right).

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Though @elmotumbokon's post only gained 95 likes, it inspired others to take the format and create variations with it. For example, Twitter user @ianamurray^[3] posted an example making fun of Ryan Murphy, the series' creator, on June 28th, gaining over 100 retweets and 800 likes (shown below, left). On July 1st, @thegaychingy^[4] posted an example poking fun at the creation of Fleetwood Mac's Rumors (shown below, right).

Many variations used text blackout to alter the image. For example, user @rorhor^[5] posted an example making Sue say "I am going to create," gaining over 24,000 retweets and 131,000 likes (shown below, left). User @sabinameschke^[6] posted an example where Sue says "I am going," gaining over 6,600 retweets and 59,000 likes (shown below, right). Jokes were covered by Junkee^[7] and The Tab.^[8]

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