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I'm Not Kink Shaming, I'm Kink Asking Why is a catchphrase and reaction image featuring a character named Lord Rogers from the 1994 animated film The Swan Princess. The meme shows Lord Rogers throwing up his hands with text next to him that reads, "I'm not kink-shaming, I'm kink asking why." Kink shaming refers to the practice of criticizing someone's specific sexual predilections.

Origin

X (formerly known as Twitter) saw sporadic use of the phrase "Not kink shaming. Just kink asking why" in 2020, with the earliest post being made on March 5th, 2020.^[1][2]

The earliest known post of the phrase combined with an image of Lord Rogers was an iFunny^[3] post on February 17th, 2021, posted by user Shadowofthygods, gathering 14 smiles in roughly two years (seen below).

The reaction image was subsequently reposted on X by SmeargleShuny on May 20th, 2021, and LinaLovesick on August 7th, 2021.^[4][5]

Spread

On March 7th, 2022, Tumblr^[6] user @velvet74subs posted the image in reaction to a news headline about an elderly couple accidentally burning down their house with a flamethrower. The post gathered over 47,000 notes in over a year (seen below, left). On March 17th, X^[7] user @superashbro86 posted the image in response to a post by PETA, gathering over 1,000 likes in a year (seen below, right).

On July 20th, 2022, X^[8] user @kevin_in_utah posted the image in response to a pregnancy announcement in which a woman was portrayed as "bred" cattle, gathering over 20,000 likes in a year (seen below, left). On November 3rd, X^[9] user @Olisark posted the image in response to a video of a husky interacting with two people dressed up as dogs, gathering over 2,000 likes in a year (seen below, right).

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