Slutty, Slutty Years

About

Slutty, Slutty Years is a snowclone popular on Tumblr formatted as "X has been dead for Y slutty, slutty years." After starting as a reference to Alexander Hamilton, the snowclone was used for other celebrities without context, confusing Tumblr users.

Origin

On February 4th, 2016, Tumblr user divinedorothy^[1] corrected a post by another Tumblr user saying one should not slut-shame Alexander Hamilton with facts about Hamilton's sexual proclivities. divinedorothy wrote in her rebuttal of the post, "Alexander Hamilton has been dead for 210. 210 slutty, slutty years." The post has gained over 255,000 notes.

Spread

The popularity of the post led to it be referenced in Tumblr posts in the following months. On May 9th, Tumblr user @lornacrowley^[2] referenced the post and gained 114 notes (shown below, left). On February 17th, 2017,^[3] she posted a text post that read "wolfgang amadeus mozart has been dead for 226 slutty, slutty years" (shown below, right). This post gained over 160,000 notes.

On June 25th, Tumblr user vorrible^[4] reblogged the Mozart post with the phrase "hi yeah what the actual, literal, GENUINE fuck does this mean." The spread of that post led to the phrase becoming a snowclone which involved others being dead for X amount of slutty, slutty years. On October 31st, 2017, Tumblr user agamemnope^[5] posted a text post that read "as of today, the Protestant Reformation has been poppin for 500 slutty, slutty years," gaining over 2,400 notes (shown below, left). On November 7th, Tumblr user leander-ligo^[6] uploaded a text post that read "F. Skank Fitzgerald has been dead for 77 slutty, slutty years," gaining over 2,000 notes (shown below, right).

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