Memes are a magical result of the internet and social media, and 20-gay-teen was jam-packed full of priceless tweets, memes and posts by queer people for queer people.
Some were painfully relatable…
gay culture is not knowing if you’re on a date or not
— ?.? (@_lesleyallan) November 18, 2018
Like, really relatable.
gay culture is not knowing how to do that fucking handshake thing straight men do
— platinum (@gyraelaln) November 25, 2018
…
Gay culture is going home from college and seeing whether or not you’ll match with your high school theatre director on Tinder
— Jackson (@jackson_is_gay) November 24, 2018
And if this isn’t the true struggle of gay dating, I don’t know what is.
gay culture is falling for someone who is either:
– straight
– taken
– out of your league
– lives half way across the country
– never catches on they you're flirting
– all of the above— ash ♥ (@gayyashley) November 25, 2018
Sometimes the gay stans are super predictable… but in the best way.
Gay culture be like: #TheLionKing pic.twitter.com/jOQjA5t0NO
— Otto (@Ottoyanez) November 22, 2018
And this tweet perfectly sums up the frustration we go through every festive season.
*Fairytale of New York plays*
The Straights:
We get to say it!
We get to say it!
We get to say it!
We get to say it!
We get to say it!
We get to say it!
We get to say it!You cheap lousy FAGGOT 🙂
— Sam Pearson ? (@greeneggs_) November 18, 2018
Honestly, we are pretty upset this didn’t happen.
I hope the Pope blesses Gay Spar when he’s in Dublin
— kez ? (@no1seshgoth) August 18, 2018
I feel attacked by this meme, but it’s kind of true.
Katy really desperately wants to snatch our culture. Chime down hunny. remember that whole wig mess?
And the ‘Gay Fear’ meme made us love JVN and gay culture in general even more.
teacher: “okay, we’re going to split up into boys and girls for this lesson”
8 year old me: pic.twitter.com/5xIV15Yuov
— mark (@howvery_) June 20, 2018
Honestly, same.
*minor inconvenience to any gay*
Dont say it
Dont say it
Dont say it
Dont say it
Dont say it
Dont say it
Dont say it
Dont say it
Dont say it
Dont say itGays: “Well that’s homophobic”
— ᴘᴇᴛᴇʀ (@AriesHomo) November 21, 2018
When people call you a snowflake for getting offended at their blatant homophobia, sexism and racism.
This tweet translates into “wish I grew up when it was okay to be racist, homophobic and sexist” https://t.co/GY4KB6tRdv
— Anna ? (@annathrne) November 17, 2018
This is the gospel truth.
sarah paulson saying if you’re not gay…you’re a weirdo looped pic.twitter.com/ixaSXL1IHG
— women looped (@womenlooped) November 18, 2018
An accurate prediction for us sashaying into 2019:
girls & gays going into 2019
— sir (@atxpapi) November 16, 2018
And honestly, it’s really easy…
straight people will refer to their car as ‘she’ but won’t call a transgender person by their correct pronouns pic.twitter.com/20zhPaDiWv
— john (@Scarlet4UrMa) November 17, 2018
MOM PLEASE!
mom can you pick me up there are straight people here
— kya (@softsadsatan) November 11, 2018
In fairness, we have the best music taste ever.
the government agent that is assigned to me while i’m playing my playlist when i’m in the shower pic.twitter.com/oTWnnqww67
— zander (@alezander) November 3, 2018
And we stan our queen Ariana.
ariana: plus i met someone else, we havin’ better discussions
me:
ariana: i know they say i move on too fast, but this one gonna last
me:
ariana: ‘cause her name is ari, she taught me love, she taught me patience, how she handles pain, that shits amazing
me: pic.twitter.com/CrZyb5jT3I
— sarah (@bbearahblue) November 4, 2018
Honestly, bring on the apocalypse if this is the case.
VROOM VROOM ? #1999xSydney
? coolgrl_69 pic.twitter.com/hd2JF9qqNt— CHARLI XCX UPDATES (@FckyeahCharli) November 2, 2018
THIS ONE.
A straight at work said to me “it’s not fair, it’s so easy for you gays to hook up”, as if we haven’t spent centuries meeting up in sewers at 2 AM to avoid getting murdered by heterosexuals
— Tom Zohar (@TomZohar) November 2, 2018
Okay, Gaga and Ariana can share the title of queen.
i said let’s have some fun this beat is sick pic.twitter.com/985AH1MENT
— HOOD CLEOPATRA (@umcornell) October 30, 2018
IM SCREAMING.
This comment on the daily mail website is still the funniest thing I’ve seen in my life pic.twitter.com/UxUkgedvOW
— Harry Jay Robinson (@HarryJayRob) October 23, 2018
And they call us the snowflakes…
'STOP BEING OFFENDED BY EVERYTHING' screams John, who gets instantly enraged when he sees the word feminist or vegan or trans or any other group of people he doesn't understand
— My name is Josh (@joshDIY) October 21, 2018
Yeah, we are the ones forcing our sexuality onto children.
straight people: gay people are forcing their sexuality onto their children
straight people, to a 5 year old boy talking to a girl: IS THAT YOUR GIRLFRIEND
— ALEXANDER Jr. ❄ (@ItsAlexJackson) October 14, 2018
Yep, we’re definitely the ones causing the confusion here.
Honestly, we have been surrounded by straight people our whole lives, and still turn out super queer.
how is a gay couple kissing going to confuse or influence a child? I've been seeing straight people kiss my whole life and I still want boys
— ALEXANDER Jr. ❄ (@ItsAlexJackson) October 7, 2018
Uhm, excuse me. I am not here for this.
When my phone network send me texts offering me pre-sale tickets for the Coronas and Kodaline pic.twitter.com/6v5zMbpaDi
— Brian ? (@being__brian) September 15, 2018
And when the Pope came to visit, the memes just got better.
Holy couple going into Nathan Carter Croke Park Pope gig should I tell her I saw her fella on Grindr before lol
— daithi (@debhruin) August 25, 2018
And the straights didn’t even go after complaining for so long that they didn’t have a straight pride. Ugh.
Homophobes always asking when Straight Pride is, then they get one and don't even bother turning up? Honestly. #popeinireland
— Oh Rollie Night (@DylanTeeBH) August 25, 2018
Same:
Me when a gal calls her gf her moth vs me when a guy calls his gf his moth pic.twitter.com/4SMpnhvxTS
— a great big splendid boy (still also spooky ?) (@soy_boye) August 1, 2018
The struggle is real.
homophobia is shite but the shittest thing about being gay is all ur girl pals going to the toilet in the club and u have to stand outside for like half an hour alone
— james bowman ❄️ (@jamesb0wman) July 20, 2018
Truth:
One Direction died so the queer eye guys could rise
— Christine Sydelko (@csydelko) June 25, 2018
The closet knew all of our secrets.
13 year old me: no, I’m not gay.
Closet: pic.twitter.com/PDTsG5lUpY
— Zack (@zackmitchell1) March 18, 2018
The internet really is our safe space.
being gay online vs being gay irl pic.twitter.com/WgNmqVfNas
— sophia (@baIIesteros) April 16, 2018
Like seriously.
Why is this the realist picture I have ever seen pic.twitter.com/IoKQ25mvUG
— Molly (@heIIagirls) April 6, 2018
But although we love the internet, we still get shit here too.
Gay people: hi
Straight twitter: not to be rude AND all but I feel like y’all are forcing this gay shit on us ??????? I have no problem with gay people but I just don’t agree with their lifestyle ?????? don’t get mad at me though
— HOOD VOGUE (@kxyonn) December 21, 2017
In 2018, we looked back at a historic moment.
this was the exact moment the gay agenda was created. pic.twitter.com/oE40d9L3N8
— ? (@fkajack) April 12, 2018
Men, get your act together and tell your friends they’re stunning.
The actual funniest thing ever is that thing boys do where they pretend they can’t tell if another boy is good looking or not , pure ‘yeh well a dunno like am not gay’ like u can think a building looks nice it doesn’t mean u want to rim it
— Kai Giudici McCann (@kaimccann_) March 31, 2018
We didn’t come here for all this straight culture.
Me when it hits the point of the night when the club starts playing songs like Mr. Brightside and Teenage Dirtbag pic.twitter.com/PL0g0c5a90
— john (@Scarlet4UrMa) March 27, 2018
And we just need to take a moment to remember that this actually happened and it wasn’t just some crazy dream we had.
A mhuintir na hÉireann! J an chraic? Cloisim go bhfuil mo chailín @michellevisage ag déanamh thar cinn ar @GotTalentIRL Is léir go bhfuil sibhse, na banríonacha, deadlaí agus maightí freisin, ach b’fhearr daoibh an obair a chur isteach nó is ag sashayáil away a bheidh sibh! pic.twitter.com/qP5VqD5gyF
— RuPaul (@RuPaul) February 16, 2018
And we do not come here to play games.
How a group of gays enter a straight club.
pic.twitter.com/z7TyCHZokd— Bello Kevy (@Bello_Kevy) January 9, 2018
We gave queer icon Carly Rae Jepsen the tweets she deserved this year.
? Documents
└? Music
└? Carly Rae Jepsen
└? Bad Songs
└⚠️ This folder is empty— Danny (@shckldg) November 1, 2018
It’s what she deserves.
Carly Rae Jepsen: *breathes*
Homosexuals: GLUE THOSE WIGS SISTERS!! CRJ is about to SNAP!! She’s fucking COMING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Can’t wait to huff poppers at her next TOUR!!!!! ??????????️??️??️??️?
— ✨The Bitch U Know As Sparkle✨ (@keaganhy) October 30, 2018
When you know it’s serious.
The straight couple rite of passage is a trip to Amsterdam and the gay version is a trip to Berlin
— kez ? (@no1seshgoth) October 29, 2018
And in 2018, tweets got thirsty…
I WANT THIS MAN TO SMASH MY AVOCADOS INTO GUACAMOLE AND I DONT CARE WHO KNOWS IT pic.twitter.com/TqUJYDKFDO
— Sam Stryker (@sbstryker) September 9, 2018
And obviously, we have to talk about that moment in 2018 when Celine Dion basically put an end to gender forever.
i can’t believe celine dion ended gender and made all babies goths. 2018 has been saved pic.twitter.com/37pzYQjQfb
— fiona ? (@neonfiona) November 15, 2018
And lest we forget the ICONIC era of Miss Vanjie…
… which gave us some of the most enjoyable memes of all time.
Me *gets arrested*
Policeman: You have the right to remain silent. If you do say anything, what you say can be used against you in a court of law.
Me: Miss Vanjie… Miss.. Vaaanjie…. miSS……… VAAAAAANJIE
— Brooke Newbould (@BrookeNewbould) March 26, 2018
Found this on Facebook and I’m dying! ? #dragrace #RPDRS10 @VanessaVanjie pic.twitter.com/NwNjmT3IYv
— Colton Christman (@ChristmanColton) March 30, 2018
What happens when you say “Miss Vanjie” three times in front of the mirror in a dark room. pic.twitter.com/cLqm0jPCOD
— babe… (@JScottRasmussen) March 30, 2018
Straight people: “Can someone finally tell us who Miss Vanjie is?”
Gay people: pic.twitter.com/qgZpm51bKB
— Mike ? (@majtague) April 3, 2018
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