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I Hope They Find a Cure Soon, also known as Just Donated to the LGBTQ+ Community, Hope They Find a Cure Soon, refers to a series of parody news article tweets using a phrasal template in which it's said that a celebrity or influencer has donated a large sum of money to the LGBTQ+ community, paired with the quote, "I hope they find a cure soon." The punchline riffs on the idea that LGBTQ+ people have a mental illness or disease. The memes often showed the celebrity in question next to an LGBTQ+ Pride flag. The memes spread in June 2025, mostly shared by queer Twitter users. The joke originates from memes initially shared in early 2020.

Origin

Use of the phrasal template dates back to January 7th, 2020, on X.^[1][2] However, the tweets weren't viral. It's unclear where they drew inspiration from.

On April 14th, 2020, Redditor jiggytm shared a deep-fried meme to the /r/loltyler1^[3] subreddit, showing Twitch streamer Tyler1 with top and bottom captions reading, "Just donated to LGBTQ community / Hope they find a cure." The post received over 1,400 upvotes in five years (shown below). It is currently the first known viral post with the snowclone.

Spread

On August 24th, 2020, YouTuber^[4] J. Cullen shared a video that used the catchphrase, gaining over 3,000 views in five years. The video was later reposted to places like iFunny. ^[5]

On June 16th, 2024, X^[6] user @arianatorsinct tweeted a parody news report about popstar Ariana Grande donating money to the LGBTQ+ community and saying, "Hope they find a cure soon," gaining over 3,000 likes in a year (shown below).

The format resurfaced en masse a year later, following a tweet from X^[7] user @the_spy_wonder on June 3rd, 2025, who joked about Fantastic Four character Johnny Storm donating to the LGBTQ+ community, gaining over 2,800 likes in a week (shown below).

On June 9th, X^[8] user @ultr4nima posted an iteration about Five Nights at Freddy's creator Scott Cawthon, gaining over 11,000 likes in a day (shown below).

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