An Out-of-Touch Adult’s Guide to Children’s Culture: the Gaylor Swift Theory
Before we all begin the long, painful march through the holidays, let’s take one last look back at Halloween, the holiday with the lowest expectations of all, by checking out the most meme-tactical costumes of 2023 and mixing all our Halloween candy into one. super bar. Also: Taylor Swift is hinting that she’s straight (sigh) and we’re all learning a new dance called the Jubie Slide.
Question: Is Taylor Swift gay? Answer: no (according to Taylor Swift)
There has long been a theory circulating on the Internet that America’s favorite singer, Taylor Swift, is secretly gay or bisexual. Proponents of this idea call themselves “gaylors” and share details of her song lyrics, photographic evidence and endless theories that “prove” that Swift enjoys the romantic company of other women and deliberately leaves clues about her true sexuality in them. social media posts, album covers, hair and clothing choices, song lyrics and much more. This week, Swift herself seemed to debunk those theories and had some words to say about the Gaylors themselves.
Images on the cover of the upcoming “Taylor’s Version” album of her 1989 album, allegedly leaked on Twitter, read: “I’ve sworn off dating and decided to focus only on myself, my music, my growth and female friendships. If I only hung out with my girlfriends, people wouldn’t be able to sensationalize or sexualize it, right? Later I learned that people could and people would do it.”
The response from the Gaylor community is interesting. There’s not a lot of “maybe we were wrong” there. Instead , many posters on r/Gaylor_Swift on Reddit seem to be angry at the singer for denying the “truth” about her sexuality and her seeming willingness to throw them under the bus to stay in the closet (which they believe she is in). An example comment reads: “I just don’t understand when people celebrate homosexuality and then tell people to mind their own business. If you are not part of the community or don’t want people to wonder if you are part of the community, don’t put a flag. “It makes us look really delusional, even though we’re not,” she noted as a strange sign. This cannot be denied.”
It should be noted that Swift actually denied this. When asked about her activism in support of the LGBT community in 2019, Swift told Vogue : “I didn’t realize until recently that I could be an advocate for a community that I’m not a part of.”
What is the Jubi Slide?: New TikTok Dance Explained
The Jubi Slide is a dance move. It was invented by dancer and TikToker jubi2fye , who has been sliding for a couple of years now, but recently the Jubi Slide has reached critical mass as people share his videos. Like the 2023 version of Michael Jackson’s moonwalk, the Jubie Slide (or Jubislide) looks uncanny when done well—it’s one of those “how is this even possible ?” dancing. As with the moonwalk, this step is not difficult to learn, but gliding the Juubi correctly is another matter entirely. If you do it right, it will look like you are flying , but you need to know how to dance, otherwise it will look stupid. And if you’re over 30, it’ll still look stupid, so just enjoy your rocking chair or do some hustle, grandpa.
Young Republicans gave Twitter a valuable gift
Their numbers are so small that it’s easy to forget Young Republicans even exist, but this week the GOP kids’ table reminded the world of its presence by giving Twitter a new picture to dunk on. Conservative activist GOPJosh posted a photo of himself hanging out with other young Republicans and captioned it , “Girl mind, beta mind, and liberal mind are all the same thing. None of them can understand the level of alpha male in this photo.” Twitter started over, either responding with witty lines like ” That’s a long and convoluted way of saying ‘virgin ‘” or ” So yours is buggy, bug-riddled and generally unsuitable for the general public ?” or attach the slogan to other photos, such as this one or this one .
I think Republican Josh may be a satirical account. Yes, he apparently worked on Trump’s 2020 campaign and posted constantly for a while, but this could still be a long, Andy Kaufman-level comedy con. It’s that dull tone.
Halloween costume design Meme-tactic
The good people at Knowyourmeme.com have put together an amazing collection of the best meme-centric Halloween costumes for 2023, including soon-to-be-forgotten favorites like Paris Bugs, the fake “alien” from Mexico, and Kevin James. with big hammers. Check out the entire list here and see how many you recognize. I scored 50% and I’m proud of it.
Does the phrase “putting your gyats out for a risler” have a secret meaning?
A few weeks ago, I (reluctantly) learned what it means to ” expose your gyatt for a risler .” I called the viral video “dumb” and said the lyrics were a bunch of teenage gibberish. But today I learned that there may be a secret, deeper level to this song.
It turns out that the song’s lyrics may contain references to the names of three US Navy ships: USS Gyatt , USS Rizzi and USS Ohio . And there is a whole class of ships called SIGMA . These vessels were also not named based on an online survey such as Boaty McBoatface . They all sailed the seas long before the Internet appeared. So is the song “Gyatt for the Rizzler” actually a sly commentary on mid-20th century American imperialism? No. But it’s still a funny coincidence.
Viral video: “I melted every Halloween candy together”
YouTuber Safiya Nygaard posted the perfect post-Halloween video. In I Melted All the Halloween Candy Together, she melts, you guessed it, the 233 most common Halloween candies together to create “the one candy to rule them all.” The unholy confection contains a layer of dozens of candies, another layer of 94 gummy candies such as Laffy Taffy and candy corn, and a final layer of 56 types of candy bars melted together. Check it out and see if “all the candy” tastes better than “one candy”.