Pink-haired Enbie

About

Pink-haired Enbie (alternatively referred to as Enbie girl) refers to a non-binary ("NB" or "enbie") character associated with a copypasta popular on 4chan parodying the LGBTQ+ community that reads, "hey truscum idiots if enbies don't exist why are they so heckin cute and valid?" The copypasta and the character began growing popular in the summer of 2020 and was used in multiple variations.

Origin

On October 30th, 2019, Redditor snowypig^[7] posted the image of the pink-haired enbie saying the phrase in /r/traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns, gaining over 10,000 points (shown below). The image was generated via LGBT Friendly Icon Creator^[8] created by finndraws.

Precursor

The expression "cute and valid" is meant to both brighten the targeted people's mind by complimenting them, and to express acceptance towards their gender or sexual identity. Although it can be and has been used in other contexts, it is mainly used in messages supporting LGBT+ people. One of the oldest recorded occurrences of this expression was used in a June 2012 a reblog^[1] of a Tumblr post by openmindcollective which featured a wholesome scene of a kid reacting to a gay couple (shown below). It was also used on November 12th, 2015 by the artist Rebecca Bronson in a Vice interview.^[2]

From 2017 to 2019 particularly, it began to catch on in the LGBT community for gender-nonconforming people, such as transgender and non-binary individuals, appearing multiple times in online LGBTQ+ communities such as /r/traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns^[4][5]

Spread

On July 18th, 2020, an anonymous 4chan user tried to derail a /s4s/ thread about monkeys by posting the question about enbies^[3]:

hey truscum idiots if enbies don't exist why are they so heckin cute and valid?

The "cute and valid" comment came after several weeks of the term "truscum" being discussed on boards like /pol/ and /lgbt/. In August 2020, this sentence started being used as a snowclone on various 4chan threads. On August 9th, one such post featured the 3D rendering of a goth woman with pink hair as an attached picture.^[6]

Later permutations would involve substituting different groups being "cute and valid" or different people being asked about them, or linking the picture of a strawman person to associate a group with them. Additionally, sometimes the phrase "cute and valid" would be replaced with something which rhymes or resembles it in alliteration. Furthermore, the term "truscum idiot" became a recurrent ironic insult. Finally, the pink-haired woman in the aforementioned picture became the subject of multiple fan arts. Many copypastas would change up the design of the Enbie character entirely, and, eventually, one particular variant became her own character. See Ashbie Moon.

Various Examples

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