![It Says You're Gay It Says You're Gay](https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/square/000/017/890/1388829191742.jpg)
It Says You're Gay
About
"It Says You Are Gay" is a catchphrase paired with a painting of an elder scholar pointing a book while speaking to a child to create an image macro. The picture, often used to describe dislike of someone's opinion, has become an exploitable.
Origin
The original image is a from 2004 painting titled Dogma by the surrealist painter Viktor Safonkin. On July 29th, 2010, a captioned version of the painting was uploaded to the Finnish website Naurunappula.[3] By 2015, the image received over 31,000 views.
![Dogma - Viktor Safonkin](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/954/381/f58.jpg)
![Gay](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/954/382/aa4.jpg)
Percursor
A similar instance of the catchphrase and the picture can be found on a Cyanide and Happiness comic published on February 17th, 2005, where one of the characters asks what does mean that he keeps getting a negative answer on a maths problem, with the reply "It means you are gay".[5]
![Cyanide and Happiness I keep getting a negative for number ten. It means youre gay. Yeah, real funny. just ask What does that mcan? Whatcha doin' tonight! Cyanide and Happiness c. Explosm.net](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/957/689/90a.jpg)
Spread
On February 16th, 2012, user Kodaka uploaded the captioned picture to the meme sharing website MemeCenter, garnering over 250 likes in three years.[2] On November 14th, 2013, a comment on the media sharing page FunnyJunk featured an image depicting an edited version of the painting with the caption "It Says You're a Heretic", as a reference to heresy from Warhammer 40,000.[4]
![4cf.jpg T SAYS YOU'REA HERETIC](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/706/073/4cf.jpg)
Various Examples
![ae3.png ET SAYZ YER A GROT 0](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/masonry/000/645/493/ae3.png)
![Check 'em IT SAYS YOU GHECK'EM](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/956/823/48d.jpg)
![It Says You're a Brone IT SAYS YOU'RE GAY UR GAY LOL](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/masonry/000/955/961/c2f.png)
![Gay-type Saus uoure GAY JP](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/956/727/87a.png)
![It says yer a wizard, Harry. It says yer a wizard, Harry.](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/956/764/b75.jpg)
![It says you've been snooPINGAS usual](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/953/361/dfd.jpg)
Search Interest
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External References
[1] Viktor Safonkin's Website – Dogma
[2] Memecenter – It Says You're Gay
[4] FunnyJunk – Can we just abolish modern day religion and worship the God-Emperor of Mankind?
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Scatmon
Apr 29, 2015 at 11:03PM EDT in reply to
RedDragon001
Apr 29, 2015 at 06:37PM EDT