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Straight Man Jumped In Gay City For Refusing To Twerk is a copypasta inspired by a parody tweet describing a viral video of a man getting attacked in Brooklyn for allegedly slapping women outside of a Nicki Minaj concert. The tweet inspired numerous jokes and memes on the app after appearing in early April 2024.

Origin

On April 5th, 2024, Twitter / X user @sabrinawadeeee^[1] tweeted a video allegedly of a man getting attacked in Brooklyn, New York outside of a Nicki Minaj concert for slapping "random" women. The following day, Twitter user @teahot326^[2] reposted the clip with the text, "Straight man jumped in Gay City for refusing to twerk." Their tweet gained over 3,100 retweets and 7,400 likes in two days (shown below).

Spread

As the tweet spread, users added jokes based on teahot326's text. For example, on April 8th, 2024, Twitter user @Goodtweet_man^[3] mixed the tweet with the A Man Has Fallen Into The River In Lego City meme, gaining over 30 retweets and 620 likes in a matter of hours (shown below, left). The same day, user @sweatandcum^[4] tweeted a You're Laughing joke about the text, gaining over 80 likes in a similar timeframe (shown below, right).

Also on April 8th, Twitter user @mbirdcollector^[5] tweeted a joke imagining Dave Chappelle talking about the "event," gaining over 610 retweets and 10,000 likes in one day (shown below, left). The same day, user @tonyhawktruther^[6] connected the tweet to the 2024 solar eclipse that day, gaining over 120 likes in one day (shown below, right).

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