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The meme quickly gained traction and boom, a meme is reborn and was going viral so much so that the journalist himself reacted humorously which brings us to the problem with this meme.
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The joke here is a play on both the journalist is saying you are gay and how typically men react when a man shows them tenderness, fondness or anything outside of what is considered normal and bro-like for straight male interactions. When you fall down unconscious and you are dying but your friend gives you mouth to mouth rather than letting you die *insert meme* While previosuly, the punchline had been ‘why are you gay’ which often spelled as why are you ge to accurately capture the journalist’s accent. The meme has made a return, with a new format. Now it was different, same content, the trans man who was gaslighted still forgotten and unethical journalist still centered. Last week, this meme came back not in the way memes normally do.
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I laughed, you most likely laughed, the trans man who was gaslighted was forgotten and the unethical journalist became a meme immortalized on our digital consciousness. Immortalized on the internet, to be reached for regularly enough that almost everyone knew the source material and the ‘context’ but rarely enough that it was funny whenever it was used. This paired with the facial expression of the interviewer and his distinct accent translated to a quick comic relief and as most things on the internet in 2019 evolved into a meme. The interviewer asking the trans man ‘why are you gay?’ then asserted that the trans man was indeed gay although the trans man had denied being gay. The video - the version which resurfaced typically was less than two minutes - quickly became comic gold for many. Earlier this year, a clip featuring a Ugandan trans man being interviewed by a Ugandan journalist - who has now been identified as Simon Kaggwa Njal - from 2012 resurfaced on the internet.