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Calculated Shard: 30 (from laksa172)

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curl -X POST \
  'http://laksa030.int.ahrefs:8124/' \
  -H 'Content-Type: text/plain' \
  -H 'X-ClickHouse-Database: crawler3' \
  -H 'Authorization: Basic YXBpOg==' \
  -d 'SELECT getAhrefsURLFromUnparsed(src_unparsed) AS found_url, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(download_stamp), 0) AS crawl_time, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(props_url_first_seen), 0) AS first_indexed_time, download_http_code AS http_code, src_unparsed AS src_unparsed, src_root_hash AS src_root_hash, history_drop_reason AS history_drop_reason, meta_title AS meta_title, meta_descriptions AS meta_descriptions, attrs_boilerpipe_text AS attrs_boilerpipe_text, attrs_markdown AS attrs_markdown, attrs_readable_markdown AS attrs_readable_markdown, meta_canonical AS meta_canonical FROM crawler3.page_info_local FINAL PREWHERE (src_root_hash, src_unparsed) IN ((getAhrefsRootHashFromUnparsed(getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://www.them.us/story/best-memes-2024-jk-rowling-mold-girl-so-confusing-mindful-demure\')), getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://www.them.us/story/best-memes-2024-jk-rowling-mold-girl-so-confusing-mindful-demure\'))) FORMAT JSONEachRow'

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{"found_url":"https:\/\/www.them.us\/story\/best-memes-2024-jk-rowling-mold-girl-so-confusing-mindful-demure","crawl_time":1775020010,"first_indexed_time":1732301363,"http_code":200,"src_unparsed":"us,them!www,\/story\/best-memes-2024-jk-rowling-mold-girl-so-confusing-mindful-demure s443","src_root_hash":"13167953641361034430","history_drop_reason":null,"meta_title":"Best Memes of 2024: The 11 Most Mindful and Demure Internet Moments of the Year | Them","meta_descriptions":["From Challengers throuple memes to ‘Wicked’ poster discourse, gay Twitter still has the juice."],"attrs_boilerpipe_text":"Twitter hasn’t been the same ever since billionaire Elon Musk\nbought it\nin 2022 and reintroduced it as X. Still, the spirit of gay Twitter has proved to be remarkably persistent, regularly churning out memes, goofs, and gags on par with the posts that defined the platform in its heyday. Sure, you may have had to scroll through crypto scams and bogus supplement ads to get to the good stuff, but it was still there. And for the more pop culture-oriented memery and fanposting, TikTok helped fill in the gaps, as the endless\nRhaenicent edits\nproved. As more of the internet’s queerest and cleverest denizens\nmigrate to BlueSky\nthis month, hopefully this online culture can recreate itself elsewhere, but for now most of the best memes of 2024 were born on a website owned by a man who despises the kind of people who make them. Let this be a lesson: If you want to stay in touch with online culture, you need to follow the gay people, not alienate them.\nAmid the otherwise hellish landscape of 2024, queer posters delivered some of our only moments of laughter and catharsis:\nChallengers\nended up making $96 million at the box office, but it felt at times like there were more tweets about it than there were tickets sold. Charli XCX and her\nBrat\nsummer\ndovetailed nicely with\nJools LeBron’s\n“very demure, very mindful” phenomenon to keep our collective mood light during the warmer months. And come fall, nothing brought more joy than scrolling through\nhyperspecific niche Halloween costumes\nand\nWicked\nmemes\nthat revealed just how media-obsessed many LGBTQ+ people are.\nTo cap off this turbulent year, I asked\nThem\nstaffers to share their favorite memes of the year — the posts that carried us through to an uncertain 2025. After reviewing them all, I think you’ll agree: As posters, queer people are unmatched, but maybe we should (sometimes) log off. —\nSamantha Allen\n“Three tickets to\nChallengers\n, please”\nClearly, the movie left plenty of viewers reminiscing about their own favorite would-be pop culture polycules.\nThey say the humble triangle is the strongest shape, and it certainly\nhad its moment\nthis spring thanks to Luca Guadagnino’s tennis threesome movie. Upon release, social media users had a field day imagining the kind of fictional triads who might go see\nChallengers\ntogether, ranging from April Ludgate and her gay boyfriends in\nParks and Recreation\nto, of course, Bella, Edward, and Jacob from\nTwilight\n. That latter trio leads to a natural question: Would a werewolf or a vampire be more likely to win the New Rochelle Challenger? Hopefully we’ll find out one day. — \nSamantha Allen\nJ.K. Rowling mold infestation\nIn July, J.K. Rowling changed her profile picture on X to a seemingly innocuous selfie — that is, until the internet seized upon a dark smudge on one of her walls in the background. People immediately\nlatched\nonto\nthe\njoke\nthat the\nHarry Potter\nauthor’s home has been infested with black mold for years, leading to a slow breakdown of her sanity that has resulted in a near-pathological obsession with trans people. Of course, there’s no evidence that Rowling’s home is actually mold-ridden. But it’s definitely easier (and most importantly, funnier) to think about her being transphobic because of fungi-induced madness rather than her just being a genuine bigot. —\nJames Factora\nRhaenicent\nThe relationship between Rhaenyra and Alicent may not be canonically queer, but even the actors see the signs.\nNo show had the same impact on my Twitter feed this year as\nHouse of the Dragon\nseason two did. As a\nGame of Thrones\nfans who is very much still upset about the final season, I refused to watch the first season of\nHotD\n… until I discovered Rhaenicent memes. Once I caught up, I spent every single Sunday watching the new season and nothing brought me more joy than scrolling through Rhaenicent edits afterward, reveling in the tension of the will-they-won’t-they relationship between Queen Rhaenyra (the one and only Emma D’Arcy) and Alicent Olivia Cooke. This show gave us drama, yearning, dragons, fighting over the throne, and\na lot\nof prolonged eye contact. Plus, some really hot British accents. This wasn’t just a solitary experience, either; as my DMs with our senior news editor Sally Tamarkin prove, a lot of queer viewers bonded over their love of Rhaenicent. —\nAna Osorno\n“I hate gay Halloween”\nWhat do you mean you’re the bisexual couch from IKEA’s 2021 Pride collection?\nWhen it comes to Halloween costumes, queer people tend to cook a little\ntoo\nhard. Gone are the days when we would dress up as firefighters or princesses. Now, we have to be\n“the guy who shoved Brittany Broski during the ‘Apple’ dance at the Sweat tour in LA”\nor the\nliteral serve from\nChallengers\n. The absurdity of this trend inspired a counter-reaction in the form of exhausted “I hate gay Halloween”\ntweets in 2022 and 2023\n, but this year it backfired, with people simply citing the phrase ironically as they posted their extremely niche costumes. Look, as a community, it’s time for us to look inward. If you want to tell someone you’ve seen a queer arthouse film, get a Letterboxd account. If you want to go to a Halloween party, be a witch or a ghost. —\nSamantha Allen\n“Is your pussy green?”\nThe\nWicked\nmeme is back on our feeds in part because Erivo posted about it. Here's the origin story.\n*\nElder voice\n* Ten years ago, in the wake of the smash success of\nWicked\n, the\nWizard of Oz\nprequel that took Broadway by storm, an unnamed graffiti scribe (poet? artist? savant?) wrote four simple words on the iconic poster for the musical:\n“Is your pussy green?”\nThe seminal image became a meme passed down through the eons, reemerging each year until one day a movie adaptation was finally born. But when internet fans of Wicked started to recirculate the meme, the film’s Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo) was not having it at all. “This is the wildest, most offensive thing I have seen,” she wrote, with further complaints about the meme. Erivo has since walked back her outrage. “I probably should have called my friends,” she\nlater told\nEntertainment Tonight\n. —\nFran Tirado\n“Girl, so confusing” fancams\nSeems like lots of people agree with Charli’s own take on Lorde’s verse: “F**king hell.”\nAfter Charli XCX and Lorde worked it out on the remix, the internet did indeed go crazy. And of course, this meant that the song instantly became fodder for countless TikToks about famous duos of best frenemies. There are the usual suspects, like\nJennifer and Needy\nof\nJennifer’s Body\n. But my favorites are the ones that are decidedly kind of out there, like this\nweirdly intricate edit\nof Squidward from\nSpongebob Squarepants\n, and this one of\nMorrissey and Robert Smith\n. —\nJames Factora\n“Mama, kudos for saying that. For spilling.”\nNo sooner did Plane Jane utter these words to fellow\nDrag Race\ncontestant Q than a new meme was born.\nIn certain contexts, some queer lingo isn’t even appropriate for the Werk Room — and that was arguably the case with\nDrag Race\ncontestant Plane Jane’s response to Q talking about the stigma of being HIV-positive: “Mama, kudos for saying that. For spilling.” The viral moment inspired a wave of captioned movie and TV stills imagining what it would be like for characters to say those iconic words in other inappropriate situations. My personal favorite?\nJennifer Garner in\nLove, Simon\nresponding to her son’s coming out.\nBut there are many more that\nwe’ve curated\nfor your enjoyment. Remember: There are moments in life that call for us to erase the gay dictionary from our brains and simply say things like, “Thank you,” and we’d do well to recognize them. —\nSamantha Allen\n“Very demure, very mindful”\nDemure is the moment. Here’s how trans women created TikTok’s latest viral internet trend.\nIf you were on the internet this fall (or perhaps wearing a dreaded green cut crease), you couldn’t go anywhere without hearing the phrase “very demure, very mindful.” Coined by\ntrans creator Jools LeBron\n, the trend pokes fun at videos providing earnest advice about how to be classy, or “demure” and “mindful,” and just highlights that once again, trans women are the tastemakers and trendsetters of our culture. Despite people trying to steal her shine and go so far as\nattempting to trademark\nthe phrase out from under her, LeBron came out victorious and has even been able to earn enough money to afford the rest of her gender-affirming care thanks to the fateful TikTok. —\nQuispe López\n“Chudai”\nA word from the 1800s has found new life in gay memes and among OnlyFans creators, but what’s the translation and why is it all over my explicit content?\n“Chudai give up or chudai just keep chasing pavements?” That is the question that has plagued consumers of X-rated content, particularly those who’ve seen the word “chudai” routinely used as a caption for porn with no context on how or why that word was being used.\nThem\ndiligently reported\non an origin story for the Urdu slang, which simply means “sex.” Case closed! Now wait, but wtf is “Wataa?” —\nFran Tirado\nHalsey’s multiple impersonations\nHalsey has been posting an impersonation daily to tease her album,\nThe Great Impersonator.\nAs part of the publicity for her fifth studio album,\nThe Great Impersonator\n, Halsey posted a series of photos and videos of herself impersonating her artistic inspirations, like\nMarilyn Monroe\n,\nFiona Apple\n, and\nBruce Springsteen\n. X users then chimed in with their own edits of Halsey “impersonating” various figures, like\nSue Sylvester\nfrom\nGlee\n,\nTaylor Swift\n, and\nVictoria\nfrom\nTwilight\n. There was also\neven one post\nlikening James Charles to Halsey impersonating Pink, which is gutting and hilarious in its accuracy. —\nJames Factora\n“Which could mean nothing…”\nTikTok has been overtaken with memes celebrating Matt Damon and Ben Affleck’s close friendship.\nFewer things made me feel more ancient this year than learning that Gen Z had discovered Ben Affleck and Matt Damon’s close friendship and begun making TikToks about this infamous bit of reportage from blogger Lainey Gossip: “Matt Damon not wearing wedding ring again during another visit to Ben Affleck’s house which could mean nothing.” Homoerotic fancams multiplied this year to the point that they inspired\na full-on trend piece here at\nThem\n, But\nreally\n? Did people truly not know that Mattfleck was a thing until now? It’s not like there are very many Zoomer movie stars (yet) to pay attention to, and these two best buds have been appearing in movies together since the early ’90s. Has nobody under the age of 30 streamed\nGood Will Hunting\n? Alas, time comes for us all. —\nSamantha Allen\nGet the best of what’s queer.\nSign up for\nThem\n’s weekly newsletter here.","attrs_markdown":"[Skip to main content](https:\/\/www.them.us\/story\/best-memes-2024-jk-rowling-mold-girl-so-confusing-mindful-demure#main-content)\n\n[NEWSLETTERS](https:\/\/www.them.us\/newsletter\/subscribe?sourceCode=navbar)\n\n[News](https:\/\/www.them.us\/news)\n\n[Culture](https:\/\/www.them.us\/culture)\n\n[Entertainment](https:\/\/www.them.us\/entertainment)\n\n[Style](https:\/\/www.them.us\/style)\n\n[Community](https:\/\/www.them.us\/community)\n\n[Answers & Advice](https:\/\/www.them.us\/answers-and-advice)\n\n[Shop](https:\/\/shop.them.us\/)\n\n[Video](https:\/\/www.them.us\/video)\n\n[NEWSLETTERS](https:\/\/www.them.us\/newsletter\/subscribe?sourceCode=navbar)\n\nMenu\n\n[News](https:\/\/www.them.us\/news)\n\n[Culture](https:\/\/www.them.us\/culture)\n\n[Art](https:\/\/www.them.us\/culture\/art)[Read Me](https:\/\/www.them.us\/culture\/read-me)[All Culture](https:\/\/www.them.us\/culture)\n\n[Entertainment](https:\/\/www.them.us\/entertainment)\n\n[Books](https:\/\/www.them.us\/entertainment\/books)[Celebrity](https:\/\/www.them.us\/entertainment\/celebrity)[Music](https:\/\/www.them.us\/entertainment\/music)[TV and Movies](https:\/\/www.them.us\/entertainment\/tv-and-movies)[All Entertainment](https:\/\/www.them.us\/entertainment)\n\n[Style](https:\/\/www.them.us\/style)\n\n[Beauty](https:\/\/www.them.us\/style\/beauty)[Fashion](https:\/\/www.them.us\/style\/fashion)[All Style](https:\/\/www.them.us\/style)\n\n[Community](https:\/\/www.them.us\/community)\n\n[Activism](https:\/\/www.them.us\/community\/activism)[History](https:\/\/www.them.us\/community\/history)[One Of Them](https:\/\/www.them.us\/community\/one-of-them)[T4T](https:\/\/www.them.us\/community\/t4t)[Tender](https:\/\/www.them.us\/community\/tender)[All Community](https:\/\/www.them.us\/community)\n\n[Answers & Advice](https:\/\/www.them.us\/answers-and-advice)\n\n[Sex and Relationships](https:\/\/www.them.us\/answers-and-advice\/sex-and-relationships)[Health](https:\/\/www.them.us\/answers-and-advice\/health)[Gender and Identity](https:\/\/www.them.us\/answers-and-advice\/gender-and-identity)[Safety and Legal](https:\/\/www.them.us\/answers-and-advice\/safety-and-legal)[Astrology](https:\/\/www.them.us\/answers-and-advice\/astrology)[First Person](https:\/\/www.them.us\/answers-and-advice\/first-person)[Mental Health](https:\/\/www.them.us\/answers-and-advice\/mental-health)[All Answers and Advice](https:\/\/www.them.us\/answers-and-advice)\n\n[Shop](https:\/\/shop.them.us\/)\n\n[Video](https:\/\/www.them.us\/video)\n\n[Search](https:\/\/www.them.us\/search)\n\n[Newsletters](https:\/\/www.them.us\/newsletter\/subscribe?sourceCode=hamburgernav)\n\n[NEWSLETTERS](https:\/\/www.them.us\/newsletter\/subscribe?sourceCode=navbar)\n\nMenu\n\n[Culture](https:\/\/www.them.us\/culture)\n\n# Staff Picks: The 11 Funniest Queer Memes of 2024\n\nFrom *Challengers* throuple memes to *Wicked* poster discourse, gay Twitter still has the juice.\n\nBy [Samantha Allen](https:\/\/www.them.us\/contributor\/samantha-allen), [James Factora](https:\/\/www.them.us\/contributor\/james-factora), [Fran Tirado](https:\/\/www.them.us\/contributor\/fran-tirado), [Ana Osorno](https:\/\/www.them.us\/contributor\/ana-osorno), and [Quispe López](https:\/\/www.them.us\/contributor\/quispe-lopez)\n\nNovember 22, 2024\n\n![Image may contain J. K. Rowling Head Person Face Child Art Collage Teen Photography Portrait and Adult](https:\/\/media.them.us\/photos\/673e25283d6f7e0ffb8b3b08\/16:9\/w_2560%2Cc_limit\/eoy-2024_memes_header.jpg)\n\nTwitter hasn’t been the same ever since billionaire Elon Musk [bought it](https:\/\/www.them.us\/story\/trans-twitter-death-tik-tok-tumblr) in 2022 and reintroduced it as X. Still, the spirit of gay Twitter has proved to be remarkably persistent, regularly churning out memes, goofs, and gags on par with the posts that defined the platform in its heyday. Sure, you may have had to scroll through crypto scams and bogus supplement ads to get to the good stuff, but it was still there. And for the more pop culture-oriented memery and fanposting, TikTok helped fill in the gaps, as the endless [Rhaenicent edits](https:\/\/www.them.us\/story\/house-of-the-dragon-rhaenicent-ship-sapphic-coded-relationship) proved. As more of the internet’s queerest and cleverest denizens [migrate to BlueSky](https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2024\/11\/19\/g-s1-34898\/bluesky-traffic-surge-after-election) this month, hopefully this online culture can recreate itself elsewhere, but for now most of the best memes of 2024 were born on a website owned by a man who despises the kind of people who make them. Let this be a lesson: If you want to stay in touch with online culture, you need to follow the gay people, not alienate them.\n\nAmid the otherwise hellish landscape of 2024, queer posters delivered some of our only moments of laughter and catharsis: *Challengers* ended up making \\$96 million at the box office, but it felt at times like there were more tweets about it than there were tickets sold. Charli XCX and her [*Brat* summer](https:\/\/www.them.us\/story\/charli-xcx-gregg-araki-brat-album-cover) dovetailed nicely with [Jools LeBron’s](https:\/\/www.them.us\/story\/what-is-demure-jools-lebron-tik-tok-trend) “very demure, very mindful” phenomenon to keep our collective mood light during the warmer months. And come fall, nothing brought more joy than scrolling through [hyperspecific niche Halloween costumes](https:\/\/www.them.us\/story\/i-hate-gay-halloween-memes-chappell-roan-bottoms-challengers) and [*Wicked* memes](https:\/\/www.them.us\/story\/is-your-pussy-green-meme-wicked-movie-cynthia-erivo) that revealed just how media-obsessed many LGBTQ+ people are.\n\nTo cap off this turbulent year, I asked *Them* staffers to share their favorite memes of the year — the posts that carried us through to an uncertain 2025. After reviewing them all, I think you’ll agree: As posters, queer people are unmatched, but maybe we should (sometimes) log off. — *Samantha Allen*\n\n## **“Three tickets to *Challengers*, please”**\n![Image may contain: Aubrey Plaza, Person, Teen, Adult, Head, Face, and Text](https:\/\/media.them.us\/photos\/662fc2f82cc2ace8e1b4904c\/master\/w_775%2Cc_limit\/challengers.jpg)\n\n[*Challengers* Throuple Memes Have Taken Over the Internet. These Are Our Favorite So Far](https:\/\/www.them.us\/story\/challengers-throuple-memes-three-tickets)\n\nClearly, the movie left plenty of viewers reminiscing about their own favorite would-be pop culture polycules.\n\nThey say the humble triangle is the strongest shape, and it certainly [had its moment](https:\/\/www.them.us\/story\/challengers-throuple-memes-three-tickets) this spring thanks to Luca Guadagnino’s tennis threesome movie. Upon release, social media users had a field day imagining the kind of fictional triads who might go see *Challengers* together, ranging from April Ludgate and her gay boyfriends in *Parks and Recreation* to, of course, Bella, Edward, and Jacob from *Twilight*. That latter trio leads to a natural question: Would a werewolf or a vampire be more likely to win the New Rochelle Challenger? Hopefully we’ll find out one day. — *Samantha Allen*\n\n#### X content\n\n## **J.K. Rowling mold infestation**\n#### X content\nIn July, J.K. Rowling changed her profile picture on X to a seemingly innocuous selfie — that is, until the internet seized upon a dark smudge on one of her walls in the background. People immediately [latched](https:\/\/x.com\/MarkGComedyUK\/status\/1821581851263488211) [onto](https:\/\/x.com\/marionumber4\/status\/1819377423315579366) [the](https:\/\/x.com\/NeilNevins\/status\/1818623509758984479) [joke](https:\/\/x.com\/DewEnjoyer\/status\/1826974005464596595) that the *Harry Potter* author’s home has been infested with black mold for years, leading to a slow breakdown of her sanity that has resulted in a near-pathological obsession with trans people. Of course, there’s no evidence that Rowling’s home is actually mold-ridden. But it’s definitely easier (and most importantly, funnier) to think about her being transphobic because of fungi-induced madness rather than her just being a genuine bigot. — *James Factora*\n\n## **Rhaenicent**\n![A still from ‘House of the Dragon’ showing two characters in dresses standing in front of a banquet.](https:\/\/media.them.us\/photos\/66840e3ad017fb43a29ec6ce\/master\/w_775%2Cc_limit\/olivia_emma_header_HOTD.jpg)\n\n[A Close Reading of Rhaenicent, the Sapphic-Coded Situationship in *House of the Dragon*](https:\/\/www.them.us\/story\/house-of-the-dragon-rhaenicent-ship-sapphic-coded-relationship)\n\nThe relationship between Rhaenyra and Alicent may not be canonically queer, but even the actors see the signs.\n\nNo show had the same impact on my Twitter feed this year as *House of the Dragon* season two did. As a *Game of Thrones* fans who is very much still upset about the final season, I refused to watch the first season of *HotD*… until I discovered Rhaenicent memes. Once I caught up, I spent every single Sunday watching the new season and nothing brought me more joy than scrolling through Rhaenicent edits afterward, reveling in the tension of the will-they-won’t-they relationship between Queen Rhaenyra (the one and only Emma D’Arcy) and Alicent Olivia Cooke. This show gave us drama, yearning, dragons, fighting over the throne, and *a lot* of prolonged eye contact. Plus, some really hot British accents. This wasn’t just a solitary experience, either; as my DMs with our senior news editor Sally Tamarkin prove, a lot of queer viewers bonded over their love of Rhaenicent. — *Ana Osorno*\n\n#### TikTok content\n## **“I hate gay Halloween”**\n![Image may contain: Myriam El Khomri, Ishtar Yasin Gutierrez, Clothing, Costume, Person, Footwear, High Heel, Shoe, and Adult](https:\/\/media.them.us\/photos\/671f9b99b2895fe3df5c541b\/master\/w_775%2Cc_limit\/halloween.jpg)\n\n[\"I Hate Gay Halloween\" This Meme Is Capturing the Art of the Niche Reference Costume](https:\/\/www.them.us\/story\/i-hate-gay-halloween-memes-chappell-roan-bottoms-challengers)\n\nWhat do you mean you’re the bisexual couch from IKEA’s 2021 Pride collection?\n\nWhen it comes to Halloween costumes, queer people tend to cook a little *too* hard. Gone are the days when we would dress up as firefighters or princesses. Now, we have to be [“the guy who shoved Brittany Broski during the ‘Apple’ dance at the Sweat tour in LA”](https:\/\/x.com\/filemyrph\/status\/1849172184549188055) or the [literal serve from *Challengers*](https:\/\/x.com\/MOULlNR0UGE\/status\/1850352701139304951). The absurdity of this trend inspired a counter-reaction in the form of exhausted “I hate gay Halloween” [tweets in 2022 and 2023](https:\/\/knowyourmeme.com\/memes\/i-hate-gay-halloween), but this year it backfired, with people simply citing the phrase ironically as they posted their extremely niche costumes. Look, as a community, it’s time for us to look inward. If you want to tell someone you’ve seen a queer arthouse film, get a Letterboxd account. If you want to go to a Halloween party, be a witch or a ghost. — *Samantha Allen*\n\n#### X content\n## **“Is your pussy green?”**\n![Wicked movie poster](https:\/\/media.them.us\/photos\/671120cd8d4a8f57c3f07d08\/master\/w_775%2Cc_limit\/wicked-meme.jpg)\n\n[“Is Your P\\*ssy Green?” Cynthia Erivo Is Not Laughing at This Decade-Old *Wicked* Meme](https:\/\/www.them.us\/story\/is-your-pussy-green-meme-wicked-movie-cynthia-erivo)\n\nThe *Wicked* meme is back on our feeds in part because Erivo posted about it. Here's the origin story.\n\n\\**Elder voice*\\* Ten years ago, in the wake of the smash success of *Wicked*, the *Wizard of Oz* prequel that took Broadway by storm, an unnamed graffiti scribe (poet? artist? savant?) wrote four simple words on the iconic poster for the musical: [“Is your pussy green?”](https:\/\/www.them.us\/story\/is-your-pussy-green-meme-wicked-movie-cynthia-erivo) The seminal image became a meme passed down through the eons, reemerging each year until one day a movie adaptation was finally born. But when internet fans of Wicked started to recirculate the meme, the film’s Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo) was not having it at all. “This is the wildest, most offensive thing I have seen,” she wrote, with further complaints about the meme. Erivo has since walked back her outrage. “I probably should have called my friends,” she [later told](https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ag7UcB5n15A) *Entertainment Tonight*. — *Fran Tirado*\n\n## **“Girl, so confusing” fancams**\n![Image may contain: Lorde, Accessories, Clothing, Coat, Sunglasses, Jacket, Adult, Person, Glasses, Long Sleeve, and Sleeve](https:\/\/media.them.us\/photos\/6675ad3547ad0477623339d3\/master\/w_775%2Cc_limit\/THEM%2520Girl%2520So%2520Confusing%2520Remix%2520Header%2520\$1\$.jpg)\n\n[The Internet Is Emotional Over Charli XCX and Lorde “Working It Out on the Remix”](https:\/\/www.them.us\/story\/charli-xcx-lorde-girl-so-confusing-remix-reactions-explained)\n\nSeems like lots of people agree with Charli’s own take on Lorde’s verse: “F\\*\\*king hell.”\n\nAfter Charli XCX and Lorde worked it out on the remix, the internet did indeed go crazy. And of course, this meant that the song instantly became fodder for countless TikToks about famous duos of best frenemies. There are the usual suspects, like [Jennifer and Needy](https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/t\/ZP8L4bSR1\/) of *Jennifer’s Body*. But my favorites are the ones that are decidedly kind of out there, like this [weirdly intricate edit](https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/t\/ZP8L4abbT\/) of Squidward from *Spongebob Squarepants*, and this one of [Morrissey and Robert Smith](https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/t\/ZP8L4nEb8\/). — *James Factora*\n\n#### TikTok content\n## **“Mama, kudos for saying that. For spilling.”**\n![Plane Jane](https:\/\/media.them.us\/photos\/65f99e4ab6b6a00f2cb588fc\/master\/w_775%2Cc_limit\/mama_kudos.jpeg)\n\n[Our Favorite “Mama, Kudos for Saying That, For Spilling” Memes So Far](https:\/\/www.them.us\/story\/our-favorite-mama-kudos-for-saying-that-for-spilling-memes-so-far)\n\nNo sooner did Plane Jane utter these words to fellow *Drag Race* contestant Q than a new meme was born.\n\nIn certain contexts, some queer lingo isn’t even appropriate for the Werk Room — and that was arguably the case with *Drag Race* contestant Plane Jane’s response to Q talking about the stigma of being HIV-positive: “Mama, kudos for saying that. For spilling.” The viral moment inspired a wave of captioned movie and TV stills imagining what it would be like for characters to say those iconic words in other inappropriate situations. My personal favorite? [Jennifer Garner in *Love, Simon* responding to her son’s coming out.](https:\/\/x.com\/TomZohar\/status\/1769185873613238565) But there are many more that [we’ve curated](https:\/\/www.them.us\/story\/our-favorite-mama-kudos-for-saying-that-for-spilling-memes-so-far) for your enjoyment. Remember: There are moments in life that call for us to erase the gay dictionary from our brains and simply say things like, “Thank you,” and we’d do well to recognize them. — *Samantha Allen*\n\n#### X content\n## **“Very demure, very mindful”**\n![An influencer in various poses, in pink, against a yellow backdrop, with text that says, “very demure” and “very mindful.”](https:\/\/media.them.us\/photos\/66be6319ab47ff383bd9da67\/master\/w_775%2Cc_limit\/THEM%2520Demure%2520Mindful%2520Header.jpg)\n\n[“A Way of Life For The Dolls Like Me”: The Demure TikTok Trend Is By and For Trans People](https:\/\/www.them.us\/story\/what-is-demure-jools-lebron-tik-tok-trend)\n\nDemure is the moment. Here’s how trans women created TikTok’s latest viral internet trend.\n\nIf you were on the internet this fall (or perhaps wearing a dreaded green cut crease), you couldn’t go anywhere without hearing the phrase “very demure, very mindful.” Coined by [trans creator Jools LeBron](https:\/\/www.them.us\/story\/what-is-demure-jools-lebron-tik-tok-trend), the trend pokes fun at videos providing earnest advice about how to be classy, or “demure” and “mindful,” and just highlights that once again, trans women are the tastemakers and trendsetters of our culture. Despite people trying to steal her shine and go so far as [attempting to trademark](https:\/\/www.them.us\/story\/jools-lebron-mindful-demure-meme-trademark-application) the phrase out from under her, LeBron came out victorious and has even been able to earn enough money to afford the rest of her gender-affirming care thanks to the fateful TikTok. — *Quispe López*\n\n## **“Chudai”**\n![Image may contain: Chess, Game, and Text](https:\/\/media.them.us\/photos\/66ff14c22b45f10cb211b02f\/master\/w_775%2Cc_limit\/chudai-2.jpg)\n\n[What Does \"Chudai\" Mean? The Centuries-Old Roots of the Viral Porn Slang](https:\/\/www.them.us\/story\/what-is-chudai-why-porn-captions-twitter-translation-origin-slang-term-onlyfans-x-india-brazil)\n\nA word from the 1800s has found new life in gay memes and among OnlyFans creators, but what’s the translation and why is it all over my explicit content?\n\n“Chudai give up or chudai just keep chasing pavements?” That is the question that has plagued consumers of X-rated content, particularly those who’ve seen the word “chudai” routinely used as a caption for porn with no context on how or why that word was being used. *Them* [diligently reported](https:\/\/www.them.us\/story\/what-is-chudai-why-porn-captions-twitter-translation-origin-slang-term-onlyfans-x-india-brazil) on an origin story for the Urdu slang, which simply means “sex.” Case closed! Now wait, but wtf is “Wataa?” — *Fran Tirado*\n\n#### X content\n\n## **Halsey’s multiple impersonations**\n![Halsey](https:\/\/media.them.us\/photos\/67191c523d00319c9e30b7bd\/master\/w_775%2Cc_limit\/halsey.jpg)\n\n[From Cher to David Bowie, We Cannot Get Enough of These Halsey Impersonations](https:\/\/www.them.us\/story\/halsey-album-the-great-impersonator-instagram-dolly-parton-britney-spears)\n\nHalsey has been posting an impersonation daily to tease her album, *The Great Impersonator.*\n\nAs part of the publicity for her fifth studio album, *The Great Impersonator*, Halsey posted a series of photos and videos of herself impersonating her artistic inspirations, like [Marilyn Monroe](https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DBhN5mJT9Eg\/?img_index=1), [Fiona Apple](https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DBZaStEyv98\/?img_index=1), and [Bruce Springsteen](https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DBJ8nNHyhdp\/?img_index=1). X users then chimed in with their own edits of Halsey “impersonating” various figures, like [Sue Sylvester](https:\/\/x.com\/dreamsandprose\/status\/1845071179356225774) from *Glee*, [Taylor Swift](https:\/\/x.com\/MPopCravess\/status\/1845170483941212172), and [Victoria](https:\/\/x.com\/wontforgethoney\/status\/1848498762605596782) from *Twilight*. There was also [even one post](https:\/\/x.com\/2002scoobydoo\/status\/1844852882446655807) likening James Charles to Halsey impersonating Pink, which is gutting and hilarious in its accuracy. — *James Factora*\n\n#### X content\n## **“Which could mean nothing…”**\n![Matt Damon and Ben Affleck stand arm in arm at the premiere of Good Will Hunting. Both co-scripted and starred in the movie. ](https:\/\/media.them.us\/photos\/666b01ec5f7d1cd1b4201463\/master\/w_775%2Cc_limit\/635926863)\n\n[\"Which Could Mean Nothing”: The Uniquely Gen Z Joy of Discovering Mattfleck](https:\/\/www.them.us\/story\/mattfleck-memes-ben-affleck-matt-damon-tiktok-which-could-mean-nothing)\n\nTikTok has been overtaken with memes celebrating Matt Damon and Ben Affleck’s close friendship.\n\nFewer things made me feel more ancient this year than learning that Gen Z had discovered Ben Affleck and Matt Damon’s close friendship and begun making TikToks about this infamous bit of reportage from blogger Lainey Gossip: “Matt Damon not wearing wedding ring again during another visit to Ben Affleck’s house which could mean nothing.” Homoerotic fancams multiplied this year to the point that they inspired [a full-on trend piece here at *Them*](https:\/\/www.them.us\/story\/mattfleck-memes-ben-affleck-matt-damon-tiktok-which-could-mean-nothing), But *really*? Did people truly not know that Mattfleck was a thing until now? It’s not like there are very many Zoomer movie stars (yet) to pay attention to, and these two best buds have been appearing in movies together since the early ’90s. Has nobody under the age of 30 streamed *Good Will Hunting*? Alas, time comes for us all. — *Samantha Allen*\n\n***Get the best of what’s queer.*** [Sign up for *Them*’s weekly newsletter here.](https:\/\/www.them.us\/newsletter\/subscribe)\n\nWritten by Them Staff\n\nTags[memes](https:\/\/www.them.us\/tags\/memes)[twitter](https:\/\/www.them.us\/tags\/twitter)[gay twitter](https:\/\/www.them.us\/tags\/gay-twitter)[jk rowling](https:\/\/www.them.us\/tags\/jk-rowling)[Halsey](https:\/\/www.them.us\/tags\/halsey)[drag race](https:\/\/www.them.us\/tags\/drag-race)[Halloween](https:\/\/www.them.us\/tags\/halloween)[Charli XCX](https:\/\/www.them.us\/tags\/charli-xcx)\n\nRead More\n\n[![\"Which Could Mean Nothing”: The Uniquely Gen Z Joy of Discovering Mattfleck](https:\/\/media.them.us\/photos\/666b01ec5f7d1cd1b4201463\/4:3\/w_640%2Cc_limit\/635926863)](https:\/\/www.them.us\/story\/mattfleck-memes-ben-affleck-matt-damon-tiktok-which-could-mean-nothing)\n\nCelebrity\n\n[\"Which Could Mean Nothing”: The Uniquely Gen Z Joy of Discovering Mattfleck](https:\/\/www.them.us\/story\/mattfleck-memes-ben-affleck-matt-damon-tiktok-which-could-mean-nothing)\n\nBy James Factora\n\n[![Staff Picks: The 18 Best LGBTQ+ Movies of 2024](https:\/\/media.them.us\/photos\/673bbc0ad189f82367c9170a\/4:3\/w_640%2Cc_limit\/eoy-2024_movies_header.jpg)](https:\/\/www.them.us\/story\/best-movies-2024-challengers-queer-love-lies-bleeding-i-saw-the-tv-glow)\n\nTV and Movies\n\n[Staff Picks: The 18 Best LGBTQ+ Movies of 2024](https:\/\/www.them.us\/story\/best-movies-2024-challengers-queer-love-lies-bleeding-i-saw-the-tv-glow)\n\nBy Samantha Allen, Michael Cuby, Sal Tamarkin, James Factora, Quispe López, Fran Tirado, and Sarah Burke\n\n[![Staff Picks: The 22 Best LGBTQ+ TV Shows of 2024](https:\/\/media.them.us\/photos\/673bbc03d189f82367c91708\/4:3\/w_640%2Cc_limit\/eoy-2024_tv_header.jpg)](https:\/\/www.them.us\/story\/best-queer-trans-lgbtq-tv-shows-2024-heartstopper-traitors-english-teacher-hacks)\n\nTV and Movies\n\n[Staff Picks: The 22 Best LGBTQ+ TV Shows of 2024](https:\/\/www.them.us\/story\/best-queer-trans-lgbtq-tv-shows-2024-heartstopper-traitors-english-teacher-hacks)\n\nBy Samantha Allen, Michael Cuby, Quispe López, Samantha Riedel, Sal Tamarkin, Ana Osorno, James Factora, Fran Tirado, Mathew Rodriguez, Sarah Burke, and Catherine Mhloyi\n\n[![From Cher to David Bowie, We Cannot Get Enough of These Halsey Impersonations](https:\/\/media.them.us\/photos\/67191c523d00319c9e30b7bd\/4:3\/w_640%2Cc_limit\/halsey.jpg)](https:\/\/www.them.us\/story\/halsey-album-the-great-impersonator-instagram-dolly-parton-britney-spears)\n\nCelebrity\n\n[From Cher to David Bowie, We Cannot Get Enough of These Halsey Impersonations](https:\/\/www.them.us\/story\/halsey-album-the-great-impersonator-instagram-dolly-parton-britney-spears)\n\nBy Quispe López\n\n[![Them](https:\/\/www.them.us\/verso\/static\/them-us\/assets\/logo-reverse.svg)](https:\/\/www.them.us\/)\n\nThem is the award-winning authority on what LGBTQ+ means today — and tomorrow. 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All rights reserved. *Them* may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Condé Nast. [Ad Choices](http:\/\/www.aboutads.info\/)\n\nCN Living","attrs_readable_markdown":"Twitter hasn’t been the same ever since billionaire Elon Musk [bought it](https:\/\/www.them.us\/story\/trans-twitter-death-tik-tok-tumblr) in 2022 and reintroduced it as X. Still, the spirit of gay Twitter has proved to be remarkably persistent, regularly churning out memes, goofs, and gags on par with the posts that defined the platform in its heyday. Sure, you may have had to scroll through crypto scams and bogus supplement ads to get to the good stuff, but it was still there. And for the more pop culture-oriented memery and fanposting, TikTok helped fill in the gaps, as the endless [Rhaenicent edits](https:\/\/www.them.us\/story\/house-of-the-dragon-rhaenicent-ship-sapphic-coded-relationship) proved. As more of the internet’s queerest and cleverest denizens [migrate to BlueSky](https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2024\/11\/19\/g-s1-34898\/bluesky-traffic-surge-after-election) this month, hopefully this online culture can recreate itself elsewhere, but for now most of the best memes of 2024 were born on a website owned by a man who despises the kind of people who make them. Let this be a lesson: If you want to stay in touch with online culture, you need to follow the gay people, not alienate them.\n\nAmid the otherwise hellish landscape of 2024, queer posters delivered some of our only moments of laughter and catharsis: *Challengers* ended up making \\$96 million at the box office, but it felt at times like there were more tweets about it than there were tickets sold. Charli XCX and her [*Brat* summer](https:\/\/www.them.us\/story\/charli-xcx-gregg-araki-brat-album-cover) dovetailed nicely with [Jools LeBron’s](https:\/\/www.them.us\/story\/what-is-demure-jools-lebron-tik-tok-trend) “very demure, very mindful” phenomenon to keep our collective mood light during the warmer months. And come fall, nothing brought more joy than scrolling through [hyperspecific niche Halloween costumes](https:\/\/www.them.us\/story\/i-hate-gay-halloween-memes-chappell-roan-bottoms-challengers) and [*Wicked* memes](https:\/\/www.them.us\/story\/is-your-pussy-green-meme-wicked-movie-cynthia-erivo) that revealed just how media-obsessed many LGBTQ+ people are.\n\nTo cap off this turbulent year, I asked *Them* staffers to share their favorite memes of the year — the posts that carried us through to an uncertain 2025. After reviewing them all, I think you’ll agree: As posters, queer people are unmatched, but maybe we should (sometimes) log off. — *Samantha Allen*\n\n## **“Three tickets to *Challengers*, please”**\n![Image may contain: Aubrey Plaza, Person, Teen, Adult, Head, Face, and Text](https:\/\/media.them.us\/photos\/662fc2f82cc2ace8e1b4904c\/master\/w_775%2Cc_limit\/challengers.jpg)\n\nClearly, the movie left plenty of viewers reminiscing about their own favorite would-be pop culture polycules.\n\nThey say the humble triangle is the strongest shape, and it certainly [had its moment](https:\/\/www.them.us\/story\/challengers-throuple-memes-three-tickets) this spring thanks to Luca Guadagnino’s tennis threesome movie. Upon release, social media users had a field day imagining the kind of fictional triads who might go see *Challengers* together, ranging from April Ludgate and her gay boyfriends in *Parks and Recreation* to, of course, Bella, Edward, and Jacob from *Twilight*. That latter trio leads to a natural question: Would a werewolf or a vampire be more likely to win the New Rochelle Challenger? Hopefully we’ll find out one day. — *Samantha Allen*\n\n## **J.K. Rowling mold infestation**\nIn July, J.K. Rowling changed her profile picture on X to a seemingly innocuous selfie — that is, until the internet seized upon a dark smudge on one of her walls in the background. People immediately [latched](https:\/\/x.com\/MarkGComedyUK\/status\/1821581851263488211) [onto](https:\/\/x.com\/marionumber4\/status\/1819377423315579366) [the](https:\/\/x.com\/NeilNevins\/status\/1818623509758984479) [joke](https:\/\/x.com\/DewEnjoyer\/status\/1826974005464596595) that the *Harry Potter* author’s home has been infested with black mold for years, leading to a slow breakdown of her sanity that has resulted in a near-pathological obsession with trans people. Of course, there’s no evidence that Rowling’s home is actually mold-ridden. But it’s definitely easier (and most importantly, funnier) to think about her being transphobic because of fungi-induced madness rather than her just being a genuine bigot. — *James Factora*\n\n## **Rhaenicent**\n![A still from ‘House of the Dragon’ showing two characters in dresses standing in front of a banquet.](https:\/\/media.them.us\/photos\/66840e3ad017fb43a29ec6ce\/master\/w_775%2Cc_limit\/olivia_emma_header_HOTD.jpg)\n\nThe relationship between Rhaenyra and Alicent may not be canonically queer, but even the actors see the signs.\n\nNo show had the same impact on my Twitter feed this year as *House of the Dragon* season two did. As a *Game of Thrones* fans who is very much still upset about the final season, I refused to watch the first season of *HotD*… until I discovered Rhaenicent memes. Once I caught up, I spent every single Sunday watching the new season and nothing brought me more joy than scrolling through Rhaenicent edits afterward, reveling in the tension of the will-they-won’t-they relationship between Queen Rhaenyra (the one and only Emma D’Arcy) and Alicent Olivia Cooke. This show gave us drama, yearning, dragons, fighting over the throne, and *a lot* of prolonged eye contact. Plus, some really hot British accents. This wasn’t just a solitary experience, either; as my DMs with our senior news editor Sally Tamarkin prove, a lot of queer viewers bonded over their love of Rhaenicent. — *Ana Osorno*\n\n## **“I hate gay Halloween”**\n![Image may contain: Myriam El Khomri, Ishtar Yasin Gutierrez, Clothing, Costume, Person, Footwear, High Heel, Shoe, and Adult](https:\/\/media.them.us\/photos\/671f9b99b2895fe3df5c541b\/master\/w_775%2Cc_limit\/halloween.jpg)\n\nWhat do you mean you’re the bisexual couch from IKEA’s 2021 Pride collection?\n\nWhen it comes to Halloween costumes, queer people tend to cook a little *too* hard. Gone are the days when we would dress up as firefighters or princesses. Now, we have to be [“the guy who shoved Brittany Broski during the ‘Apple’ dance at the Sweat tour in LA”](https:\/\/x.com\/filemyrph\/status\/1849172184549188055) or the [literal serve from *Challengers*](https:\/\/x.com\/MOULlNR0UGE\/status\/1850352701139304951). The absurdity of this trend inspired a counter-reaction in the form of exhausted “I hate gay Halloween” [tweets in 2022 and 2023](https:\/\/knowyourmeme.com\/memes\/i-hate-gay-halloween), but this year it backfired, with people simply citing the phrase ironically as they posted their extremely niche costumes. Look, as a community, it’s time for us to look inward. If you want to tell someone you’ve seen a queer arthouse film, get a Letterboxd account. If you want to go to a Halloween party, be a witch or a ghost. — *Samantha Allen*\n\n## **“Is your pussy green?”**\n![Wicked movie poster](https:\/\/media.them.us\/photos\/671120cd8d4a8f57c3f07d08\/master\/w_775%2Cc_limit\/wicked-meme.jpg)\n\nThe *Wicked* meme is back on our feeds in part because Erivo posted about it. Here's the origin story.\n\n\\**Elder voice*\\* Ten years ago, in the wake of the smash success of *Wicked*, the *Wizard of Oz* prequel that took Broadway by storm, an unnamed graffiti scribe (poet? artist? savant?) wrote four simple words on the iconic poster for the musical: [“Is your pussy green?”](https:\/\/www.them.us\/story\/is-your-pussy-green-meme-wicked-movie-cynthia-erivo) The seminal image became a meme passed down through the eons, reemerging each year until one day a movie adaptation was finally born. But when internet fans of Wicked started to recirculate the meme, the film’s Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo) was not having it at all. “This is the wildest, most offensive thing I have seen,” she wrote, with further complaints about the meme. Erivo has since walked back her outrage. “I probably should have called my friends,” she [later told](https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ag7UcB5n15A) *Entertainment Tonight*. — *Fran Tirado*\n\n## **“Girl, so confusing” fancams**\n![Image may contain: Lorde, Accessories, Clothing, Coat, Sunglasses, Jacket, Adult, Person, Glasses, Long Sleeve, and Sleeve](https:\/\/media.them.us\/photos\/6675ad3547ad0477623339d3\/master\/w_775%2Cc_limit\/THEM%2520Girl%2520So%2520Confusing%2520Remix%2520Header%2520\$1\$.jpg)\n\nSeems like lots of people agree with Charli’s own take on Lorde’s verse: “F\\*\\*king hell.”\n\nAfter Charli XCX and Lorde worked it out on the remix, the internet did indeed go crazy. And of course, this meant that the song instantly became fodder for countless TikToks about famous duos of best frenemies. There are the usual suspects, like [Jennifer and Needy](https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/t\/ZP8L4bSR1\/) of *Jennifer’s Body*. But my favorites are the ones that are decidedly kind of out there, like this [weirdly intricate edit](https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/t\/ZP8L4abbT\/) of Squidward from *Spongebob Squarepants*, and this one of [Morrissey and Robert Smith](https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/t\/ZP8L4nEb8\/). — *James Factora*\n\n## **“Mama, kudos for saying that. For spilling.”**\n![Plane Jane](https:\/\/media.them.us\/photos\/65f99e4ab6b6a00f2cb588fc\/master\/w_775%2Cc_limit\/mama_kudos.jpeg)\n\nNo sooner did Plane Jane utter these words to fellow *Drag Race* contestant Q than a new meme was born.\n\nIn certain contexts, some queer lingo isn’t even appropriate for the Werk Room — and that was arguably the case with *Drag Race* contestant Plane Jane’s response to Q talking about the stigma of being HIV-positive: “Mama, kudos for saying that. For spilling.” The viral moment inspired a wave of captioned movie and TV stills imagining what it would be like for characters to say those iconic words in other inappropriate situations. My personal favorite? [Jennifer Garner in *Love, Simon* responding to her son’s coming out.](https:\/\/x.com\/TomZohar\/status\/1769185873613238565) But there are many more that [we’ve curated](https:\/\/www.them.us\/story\/our-favorite-mama-kudos-for-saying-that-for-spilling-memes-so-far) for your enjoyment. Remember: There are moments in life that call for us to erase the gay dictionary from our brains and simply say things like, “Thank you,” and we’d do well to recognize them. — *Samantha Allen*\n\n## **“Very demure, very mindful”**\n![An influencer in various poses, in pink, against a yellow backdrop, with text that says, “very demure” and “very mindful.”](https:\/\/media.them.us\/photos\/66be6319ab47ff383bd9da67\/master\/w_775%2Cc_limit\/THEM%2520Demure%2520Mindful%2520Header.jpg)\n\nDemure is the moment. Here’s how trans women created TikTok’s latest viral internet trend.\n\nIf you were on the internet this fall (or perhaps wearing a dreaded green cut crease), you couldn’t go anywhere without hearing the phrase “very demure, very mindful.” Coined by [trans creator Jools LeBron](https:\/\/www.them.us\/story\/what-is-demure-jools-lebron-tik-tok-trend), the trend pokes fun at videos providing earnest advice about how to be classy, or “demure” and “mindful,” and just highlights that once again, trans women are the tastemakers and trendsetters of our culture. Despite people trying to steal her shine and go so far as [attempting to trademark](https:\/\/www.them.us\/story\/jools-lebron-mindful-demure-meme-trademark-application) the phrase out from under her, LeBron came out victorious and has even been able to earn enough money to afford the rest of her gender-affirming care thanks to the fateful TikTok. — *Quispe López*\n\n## **“Chudai”**\n![Image may contain: Chess, Game, and Text](https:\/\/media.them.us\/photos\/66ff14c22b45f10cb211b02f\/master\/w_775%2Cc_limit\/chudai-2.jpg)\n\nA word from the 1800s has found new life in gay memes and among OnlyFans creators, but what’s the translation and why is it all over my explicit content?\n\n“Chudai give up or chudai just keep chasing pavements?” That is the question that has plagued consumers of X-rated content, particularly those who’ve seen the word “chudai” routinely used as a caption for porn with no context on how or why that word was being used. *Them* [diligently reported](https:\/\/www.them.us\/story\/what-is-chudai-why-porn-captions-twitter-translation-origin-slang-term-onlyfans-x-india-brazil) on an origin story for the Urdu slang, which simply means “sex.” Case closed! Now wait, but wtf is “Wataa?” — *Fran Tirado*\n\n## **Halsey’s multiple impersonations**\n![Halsey](https:\/\/media.them.us\/photos\/67191c523d00319c9e30b7bd\/master\/w_775%2Cc_limit\/halsey.jpg)\n\nHalsey has been posting an impersonation daily to tease her album, *The Great Impersonator.*\n\nAs part of the publicity for her fifth studio album, *The Great Impersonator*, Halsey posted a series of photos and videos of herself impersonating her artistic inspirations, like [Marilyn Monroe](https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DBhN5mJT9Eg\/?img_index=1), [Fiona Apple](https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DBZaStEyv98\/?img_index=1), and [Bruce Springsteen](https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DBJ8nNHyhdp\/?img_index=1). X users then chimed in with their own edits of Halsey “impersonating” various figures, like [Sue Sylvester](https:\/\/x.com\/dreamsandprose\/status\/1845071179356225774) from *Glee*, [Taylor Swift](https:\/\/x.com\/MPopCravess\/status\/1845170483941212172), and [Victoria](https:\/\/x.com\/wontforgethoney\/status\/1848498762605596782) from *Twilight*. There was also [even one post](https:\/\/x.com\/2002scoobydoo\/status\/1844852882446655807) likening James Charles to Halsey impersonating Pink, which is gutting and hilarious in its accuracy. — *James Factora*\n\n## **“Which could mean nothing…”**\n![Matt Damon and Ben Affleck stand arm in arm at the premiere of Good Will Hunting. 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Boilerpipe Text	Twitter hasn’t been the same ever since billionaire Elon Musk bought it in 2022 and reintroduced it as X. Still, the spirit of gay Twitter has proved to be remarkably persistent, regularly churning out memes, goofs, and gags on par with the posts that defined the platform in its heyday. Sure, you may have had to scroll through crypto scams and bogus supplement ads to get to the good stuff, but it was still there. And for the more pop culture-oriented memery and fanposting, TikTok helped fill in the gaps, as the endless Rhaenicent edits proved. As more of the internet’s queerest and cleverest denizens migrate to BlueSky this month, hopefully this online culture can recreate itself elsewhere, but for now most of the best memes of 2024 were born on a website owned by a man who despises the kind of people who make them. Let this be a lesson: If you want to stay in touch with online culture, you need to follow the gay people, not alienate them. Amid the otherwise hellish landscape of 2024, queer posters delivered some of our only moments of laughter and catharsis: Challengers ended up making $96 million at the box office, but it felt at times like there were more tweets about it than there were tickets sold. Charli XCX and her Brat summer dovetailed nicely with Jools LeBron’s “very demure, very mindful” phenomenon to keep our collective mood light during the warmer months. And come fall, nothing brought more joy than scrolling through hyperspecific niche Halloween costumes and Wicked memes that revealed just how media-obsessed many LGBTQ+ people are. To cap off this turbulent year, I asked Them staffers to share their favorite memes of the year — the posts that carried us through to an uncertain 2025. After reviewing them all, I think you’ll agree: As posters, queer people are unmatched, but maybe we should (sometimes) log off. — Samantha Allen “Three tickets to Challengers , please” Clearly, the movie left plenty of viewers reminiscing about their own favorite would-be pop culture polycules. They say the humble triangle is the strongest shape, and it certainly had its moment this spring thanks to Luca Guadagnino’s tennis threesome movie. Upon release, social media users had a field day imagining the kind of fictional triads who might go see Challengers together, ranging from April Ludgate and her gay boyfriends in Parks and Recreation to, of course, Bella, Edward, and Jacob from Twilight . That latter trio leads to a natural question: Would a werewolf or a vampire be more likely to win the New Rochelle Challenger? Hopefully we’ll find out one day. — Samantha Allen J.K. Rowling mold infestation In July, J.K. Rowling changed her profile picture on X to a seemingly innocuous selfie — that is, until the internet seized upon a dark smudge on one of her walls in the background. People immediately latched onto the joke that the Harry Potter author’s home has been infested with black mold for years, leading to a slow breakdown of her sanity that has resulted in a near-pathological obsession with trans people. Of course, there’s no evidence that Rowling’s home is actually mold-ridden. But it’s definitely easier (and most importantly, funnier) to think about her being transphobic because of fungi-induced madness rather than her just being a genuine bigot. — James Factora Rhaenicent The relationship between Rhaenyra and Alicent may not be canonically queer, but even the actors see the signs. No show had the same impact on my Twitter feed this year as House of the Dragon season two did. As a Game of Thrones fans who is very much still upset about the final season, I refused to watch the first season of HotD … until I discovered Rhaenicent memes. Once I caught up, I spent every single Sunday watching the new season and nothing brought me more joy than scrolling through Rhaenicent edits afterward, reveling in the tension of the will-they-won’t-they relationship between Queen Rhaenyra (the one and only Emma D’Arcy) and Alicent Olivia Cooke. This show gave us drama, yearning, dragons, fighting over the throne, and a lot of prolonged eye contact. Plus, some really hot British accents. This wasn’t just a solitary experience, either; as my DMs with our senior news editor Sally Tamarkin prove, a lot of queer viewers bonded over their love of Rhaenicent. — Ana Osorno “I hate gay Halloween” What do you mean you’re the bisexual couch from IKEA’s 2021 Pride collection? When it comes to Halloween costumes, queer people tend to cook a little too hard. Gone are the days when we would dress up as firefighters or princesses. Now, we have to be “the guy who shoved Brittany Broski during the ‘Apple’ dance at the Sweat tour in LA” or the literal serve from Challengers . The absurdity of this trend inspired a counter-reaction in the form of exhausted “I hate gay Halloween” tweets in 2022 and 2023 , but this year it backfired, with people simply citing the phrase ironically as they posted their extremely niche costumes. Look, as a community, it’s time for us to look inward. If you want to tell someone you’ve seen a queer arthouse film, get a Letterboxd account. If you want to go to a Halloween party, be a witch or a ghost. — Samantha Allen “Is your pussy green?” The Wicked meme is back on our feeds in part because Erivo posted about it. Here's the origin story. * Elder voice * Ten years ago, in the wake of the smash success of Wicked , the Wizard of Oz prequel that took Broadway by storm, an unnamed graffiti scribe (poet? artist? savant?) wrote four simple words on the iconic poster for the musical: “Is your pussy green?” The seminal image became a meme passed down through the eons, reemerging each year until one day a movie adaptation was finally born. But when internet fans of Wicked started to recirculate the meme, the film’s Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo) was not having it at all. “This is the wildest, most offensive thing I have seen,” she wrote, with further complaints about the meme. Erivo has since walked back her outrage. “I probably should have called my friends,” she later told Entertainment Tonight . — Fran Tirado “Girl, so confusing” fancams Seems like lots of people agree with Charli’s own take on Lorde’s verse: “F**king hell.” After Charli XCX and Lorde worked it out on the remix, the internet did indeed go crazy. And of course, this meant that the song instantly became fodder for countless TikToks about famous duos of best frenemies. There are the usual suspects, like Jennifer and Needy of Jennifer’s Body . But my favorites are the ones that are decidedly kind of out there, like this weirdly intricate edit of Squidward from Spongebob Squarepants , and this one of Morrissey and Robert Smith . — James Factora “Mama, kudos for saying that. For spilling.” No sooner did Plane Jane utter these words to fellow Drag Race contestant Q than a new meme was born. In certain contexts, some queer lingo isn’t even appropriate for the Werk Room — and that was arguably the case with Drag Race contestant Plane Jane’s response to Q talking about the stigma of being HIV-positive: “Mama, kudos for saying that. For spilling.” The viral moment inspired a wave of captioned movie and TV stills imagining what it would be like for characters to say those iconic words in other inappropriate situations. My personal favorite? Jennifer Garner in Love, Simon responding to her son’s coming out. But there are many more that we’ve curated for your enjoyment. Remember: There are moments in life that call for us to erase the gay dictionary from our brains and simply say things like, “Thank you,” and we’d do well to recognize them. — Samantha Allen “Very demure, very mindful” Demure is the moment. Here’s how trans women created TikTok’s latest viral internet trend. If you were on the internet this fall (or perhaps wearing a dreaded green cut crease), you couldn’t go anywhere without hearing the phrase “very demure, very mindful.” Coined by trans creator Jools LeBron , the trend pokes fun at videos providing earnest advice about how to be classy, or “demure” and “mindful,” and just highlights that once again, trans women are the tastemakers and trendsetters of our culture. Despite people trying to steal her shine and go so far as attempting to trademark the phrase out from under her, LeBron came out victorious and has even been able to earn enough money to afford the rest of her gender-affirming care thanks to the fateful TikTok. — Quispe López “Chudai” A word from the 1800s has found new life in gay memes and among OnlyFans creators, but what’s the translation and why is it all over my explicit content? “Chudai give up or chudai just keep chasing pavements?” That is the question that has plagued consumers of X-rated content, particularly those who’ve seen the word “chudai” routinely used as a caption for porn with no context on how or why that word was being used. Them diligently reported on an origin story for the Urdu slang, which simply means “sex.” Case closed! Now wait, but wtf is “Wataa?” — Fran Tirado Halsey’s multiple impersonations Halsey has been posting an impersonation daily to tease her album, The Great Impersonator. As part of the publicity for her fifth studio album, The Great Impersonator , Halsey posted a series of photos and videos of herself impersonating her artistic inspirations, like Marilyn Monroe , Fiona Apple , and Bruce Springsteen . X users then chimed in with their own edits of Halsey “impersonating” various figures, like Sue Sylvester from Glee , Taylor Swift , and Victoria from Twilight . There was also even one post likening James Charles to Halsey impersonating Pink, which is gutting and hilarious in its accuracy. — James Factora “Which could mean nothing…” TikTok has been overtaken with memes celebrating Matt Damon and Ben Affleck’s close friendship. Fewer things made me feel more ancient this year than learning that Gen Z had discovered Ben Affleck and Matt Damon’s close friendship and begun making TikToks about this infamous bit of reportage from blogger Lainey Gossip: “Matt Damon not wearing wedding ring again during another visit to Ben Affleck’s house which could mean nothing.” Homoerotic fancams multiplied this year to the point that they inspired a full-on trend piece here at Them , But really ? Did people truly not know that Mattfleck was a thing until now? It’s not like there are very many Zoomer movie stars (yet) to pay attention to, and these two best buds have been appearing in movies together since the early ’90s. Has nobody under the age of 30 streamed Good Will Hunting ? Alas, time comes for us all. — Samantha Allen Get the best of what’s queer. Sign up for Them ’s weekly newsletter here.
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By [Samantha Allen](https://www.them.us/contributor/samantha-allen), [James Factora](https://www.them.us/contributor/james-factora), [Fran Tirado](https://www.them.us/contributor/fran-tirado), [Ana Osorno](https://www.them.us/contributor/ana-osorno), and [Quispe López](https://www.them.us/contributor/quispe-lopez) November 22, 2024 ![Image may contain J. K. Rowling Head Person Face Child Art Collage Teen Photography Portrait and Adult](https://media.them.us/photos/673e25283d6f7e0ffb8b3b08/16:9/w_2560%2Cc_limit/eoy-2024_memes_header.jpg) Twitter hasn’t been the same ever since billionaire Elon Musk [bought it](https://www.them.us/story/trans-twitter-death-tik-tok-tumblr) in 2022 and reintroduced it as X. Still, the spirit of gay Twitter has proved to be remarkably persistent, regularly churning out memes, goofs, and gags on par with the posts that defined the platform in its heyday. Sure, you may have had to scroll through crypto scams and bogus supplement ads to get to the good stuff, but it was still there. And for the more pop culture-oriented memery and fanposting, TikTok helped fill in the gaps, as the endless [Rhaenicent edits](https://www.them.us/story/house-of-the-dragon-rhaenicent-ship-sapphic-coded-relationship) proved. As more of the internet’s queerest and cleverest denizens [migrate to BlueSky](https://www.npr.org/2024/11/19/g-s1-34898/bluesky-traffic-surge-after-election) this month, hopefully this online culture can recreate itself elsewhere, but for now most of the best memes of 2024 were born on a website owned by a man who despises the kind of people who make them. Let this be a lesson: If you want to stay in touch with online culture, you need to follow the gay people, not alienate them. Amid the otherwise hellish landscape of 2024, queer posters delivered some of our only moments of laughter and catharsis: Challengers ended up making \$96 million at the box office, but it felt at times like there were more tweets about it than there were tickets sold. Charli XCX and her [Brat summer](https://www.them.us/story/charli-xcx-gregg-araki-brat-album-cover) dovetailed nicely with [Jools LeBron’s](https://www.them.us/story/what-is-demure-jools-lebron-tik-tok-trend) “very demure, very mindful” phenomenon to keep our collective mood light during the warmer months. And come fall, nothing brought more joy than scrolling through [hyperspecific niche Halloween costumes](https://www.them.us/story/i-hate-gay-halloween-memes-chappell-roan-bottoms-challengers) and [Wicked memes](https://www.them.us/story/is-your-pussy-green-meme-wicked-movie-cynthia-erivo) that revealed just how media-obsessed many LGBTQ+ people are. To cap off this turbulent year, I asked Them staffers to share their favorite memes of the year — the posts that carried us through to an uncertain 2025. After reviewing them all, I think you’ll agree: As posters, queer people are unmatched, but maybe we should (sometimes) log off. — Samantha Allen ## *“Three tickets to Challengers, please”* ![Image may contain: Aubrey Plaza, Person, Teen, Adult, Head, Face, and Text](https://media.them.us/photos/662fc2f82cc2ace8e1b4904c/master/w_775%2Cc_limit/challengers.jpg) [Challengers Throuple Memes Have Taken Over the Internet. These Are Our Favorite So Far](https://www.them.us/story/challengers-throuple-memes-three-tickets) Clearly, the movie left plenty of viewers reminiscing about their own favorite would-be pop culture polycules. They say the humble triangle is the strongest shape, and it certainly [had its moment](https://www.them.us/story/challengers-throuple-memes-three-tickets) this spring thanks to Luca Guadagnino’s tennis threesome movie. Upon release, social media users had a field day imagining the kind of fictional triads who might go see Challengers together, ranging from April Ludgate and her gay boyfriends in Parks and Recreation to, of course, Bella, Edward, and Jacob from Twilight. That latter trio leads to a natural question: Would a werewolf or a vampire be more likely to win the New Rochelle Challenger? Hopefully we’ll find out one day. — Samantha Allen #### X content ## J.K. Rowling mold infestation #### X content In July, J.K. Rowling changed her profile picture on X to a seemingly innocuous selfie — that is, until the internet seized upon a dark smudge on one of her walls in the background. People immediately [latched](https://x.com/MarkGComedyUK/status/1821581851263488211) [onto](https://x.com/marionumber4/status/1819377423315579366) [the](https://x.com/NeilNevins/status/1818623509758984479) [joke](https://x.com/DewEnjoyer/status/1826974005464596595) that the Harry Potter author’s home has been infested with black mold for years, leading to a slow breakdown of her sanity that has resulted in a near-pathological obsession with trans people. Of course, there’s no evidence that Rowling’s home is actually mold-ridden. But it’s definitely easier (and most importantly, funnier) to think about her being transphobic because of fungi-induced madness rather than her just being a genuine bigot. — James Factora ## Rhaenicent ![A still from ‘House of the Dragon’ showing two characters in dresses standing in front of a banquet.](https://media.them.us/photos/66840e3ad017fb43a29ec6ce/master/w_775%2Cc_limit/olivia_emma_header_HOTD.jpg) [A Close Reading of Rhaenicent, the Sapphic-Coded Situationship in House of the Dragon](https://www.them.us/story/house-of-the-dragon-rhaenicent-ship-sapphic-coded-relationship) The relationship between Rhaenyra and Alicent may not be canonically queer, but even the actors see the signs. No show had the same impact on my Twitter feed this year as House of the Dragon season two did. As a Game of Thrones fans who is very much still upset about the final season, I refused to watch the first season of HotD… until I discovered Rhaenicent memes. Once I caught up, I spent every single Sunday watching the new season and nothing brought me more joy than scrolling through Rhaenicent edits afterward, reveling in the tension of the will-they-won’t-they relationship between Queen Rhaenyra (the one and only Emma D’Arcy) and Alicent Olivia Cooke. This show gave us drama, yearning, dragons, fighting over the throne, and a lot of prolonged eye contact. Plus, some really hot British accents. This wasn’t just a solitary experience, either; as my DMs with our senior news editor Sally Tamarkin prove, a lot of queer viewers bonded over their love of Rhaenicent. — Ana Osorno #### TikTok content ## “I hate gay Halloween” ![Image may contain: Myriam El Khomri, Ishtar Yasin Gutierrez, Clothing, Costume, Person, Footwear, High Heel, Shoe, and Adult](https://media.them.us/photos/671f9b99b2895fe3df5c541b/master/w_775%2Cc_limit/halloween.jpg) ["I Hate Gay Halloween" This Meme Is Capturing the Art of the Niche Reference Costume](https://www.them.us/story/i-hate-gay-halloween-memes-chappell-roan-bottoms-challengers) What do you mean you’re the bisexual couch from IKEA’s 2021 Pride collection? When it comes to Halloween costumes, queer people tend to cook a little too hard. Gone are the days when we would dress up as firefighters or princesses. Now, we have to be [“the guy who shoved Brittany Broski during the ‘Apple’ dance at the Sweat tour in LA”](https://x.com/filemyrph/status/1849172184549188055) or the [literal serve from Challengers](https://x.com/MOULlNR0UGE/status/1850352701139304951). The absurdity of this trend inspired a counter-reaction in the form of exhausted “I hate gay Halloween” [tweets in 2022 and 2023](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-hate-gay-halloween), but this year it backfired, with people simply citing the phrase ironically as they posted their extremely niche costumes. Look, as a community, it’s time for us to look inward. If you want to tell someone you’ve seen a queer arthouse film, get a Letterboxd account. If you want to go to a Halloween party, be a witch or a ghost. — Samantha Allen #### X content ## “Is your pussy green?” ![Wicked movie poster](https://media.them.us/photos/671120cd8d4a8f57c3f07d08/master/w_775%2Cc_limit/wicked-meme.jpg) [“Is Your P\ssy Green?” Cynthia Erivo Is Not Laughing at This Decade-Old Wicked* Meme](https://www.them.us/story/is-your-pussy-green-meme-wicked-movie-cynthia-erivo) The Wicked meme is back on our feeds in part because Erivo posted about it. Here's the origin story. \*Elder voice\* Ten years ago, in the wake of the smash success of Wicked, the Wizard of Oz prequel that took Broadway by storm, an unnamed graffiti scribe (poet? artist? savant?) wrote four simple words on the iconic poster for the musical: [“Is your pussy green?”](https://www.them.us/story/is-your-pussy-green-meme-wicked-movie-cynthia-erivo) The seminal image became a meme passed down through the eons, reemerging each year until one day a movie adaptation was finally born. But when internet fans of Wicked started to recirculate the meme, the film’s Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo) was not having it at all. “This is the wildest, most offensive thing I have seen,” she wrote, with further complaints about the meme. Erivo has since walked back her outrage. “I probably should have called my friends,” she [later told](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ag7UcB5n15A) Entertainment Tonight. — Fran Tirado ## “Girl, so confusing” fancams ![Image may contain: Lorde, Accessories, Clothing, Coat, Sunglasses, Jacket, Adult, Person, Glasses, Long Sleeve, and Sleeve](https://media.them.us/photos/6675ad3547ad0477623339d3/master/w_775%2Cc_limit/THEM%2520Girl%2520So%2520Confusing%2520Remix%2520Header%2520$1$.jpg) [The Internet Is Emotional Over Charli XCX and Lorde “Working It Out on the Remix”](https://www.them.us/story/charli-xcx-lorde-girl-so-confusing-remix-reactions-explained) Seems like lots of people agree with Charli’s own take on Lorde’s verse: “F\\king hell.” After Charli XCX and Lorde worked it out on the remix, the internet did indeed go crazy. And of course, this meant that the song instantly became fodder for countless TikToks about famous duos of best frenemies. There are the usual suspects, like [Jennifer and Needy](https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8L4bSR1/) of Jennifer’s Body. But my favorites are the ones that are decidedly kind of out there, like this [weirdly intricate edit](https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8L4abbT/) of Squidward from Spongebob Squarepants, and this one of [Morrissey and Robert Smith](https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8L4nEb8/). — James Factora #### TikTok content ## “Mama, kudos for saying that. For spilling.” ![Plane Jane](https://media.them.us/photos/65f99e4ab6b6a00f2cb588fc/master/w_775%2Cc_limit/mama_kudos.jpeg) [Our Favorite “Mama, Kudos for Saying That, For Spilling” Memes So Far](https://www.them.us/story/our-favorite-mama-kudos-for-saying-that-for-spilling-memes-so-far) No sooner did Plane Jane utter these words to fellow Drag Race contestant Q than a new meme was born. In certain contexts, some queer lingo isn’t even appropriate for the Werk Room — and that was arguably the case with Drag Race contestant Plane Jane’s response to Q talking about the stigma of being HIV-positive: “Mama, kudos for saying that. For spilling.” The viral moment inspired a wave of captioned movie and TV stills imagining what it would be like for characters to say those iconic words in other inappropriate situations. My personal favorite? [Jennifer Garner in Love, Simon responding to her son’s coming out.](https://x.com/TomZohar/status/1769185873613238565) But there are many more that [we’ve curated](https://www.them.us/story/our-favorite-mama-kudos-for-saying-that-for-spilling-memes-so-far) for your enjoyment. Remember: There are moments in life that call for us to erase the gay dictionary from our brains and simply say things like, “Thank you,” and we’d do well to recognize them. — Samantha Allen #### X content ## “Very demure, very mindful” ![An influencer in various poses, in pink, against a yellow backdrop, with text that says, “very demure” and “very mindful.”](https://media.them.us/photos/66be6319ab47ff383bd9da67/master/w_775%2Cc_limit/THEM%2520Demure%2520Mindful%2520Header.jpg) [“A Way of Life For The Dolls Like Me”: The Demure TikTok Trend Is By and For Trans People](https://www.them.us/story/what-is-demure-jools-lebron-tik-tok-trend) Demure is the moment. Here’s how trans women created TikTok’s latest viral internet trend. If you were on the internet this fall (or perhaps wearing a dreaded green cut crease), you couldn’t go anywhere without hearing the phrase “very demure, very mindful.” Coined by [trans creator Jools LeBron](https://www.them.us/story/what-is-demure-jools-lebron-tik-tok-trend), the trend pokes fun at videos providing earnest advice about how to be classy, or “demure” and “mindful,” and just highlights that once again, trans women are the tastemakers and trendsetters of our culture. Despite people trying to steal her shine and go so far as [attempting to trademark](https://www.them.us/story/jools-lebron-mindful-demure-meme-trademark-application) the phrase out from under her, LeBron came out victorious and has even been able to earn enough money to afford the rest of her gender-affirming care thanks to the fateful TikTok. — Quispe López ## “Chudai” ![Image may contain: Chess, Game, and Text](https://media.them.us/photos/66ff14c22b45f10cb211b02f/master/w_775%2Cc_limit/chudai-2.jpg) [What Does "Chudai" Mean? The Centuries-Old Roots of the Viral Porn Slang](https://www.them.us/story/what-is-chudai-why-porn-captions-twitter-translation-origin-slang-term-onlyfans-x-india-brazil) A word from the 1800s has found new life in gay memes and among OnlyFans creators, but what’s the translation and why is it all over my explicit content? “Chudai give up or chudai just keep chasing pavements?” That is the question that has plagued consumers of X-rated content, particularly those who’ve seen the word “chudai” routinely used as a caption for porn with no context on how or why that word was being used. Them [diligently reported](https://www.them.us/story/what-is-chudai-why-porn-captions-twitter-translation-origin-slang-term-onlyfans-x-india-brazil) on an origin story for the Urdu slang, which simply means “sex.” Case closed! Now wait, but wtf is “Wataa?” — Fran Tirado #### X content ## Halsey’s multiple impersonations ![Halsey](https://media.them.us/photos/67191c523d00319c9e30b7bd/master/w_775%2Cc_limit/halsey.jpg) [From Cher to David Bowie, We Cannot Get Enough of These Halsey Impersonations](https://www.them.us/story/halsey-album-the-great-impersonator-instagram-dolly-parton-britney-spears) Halsey has been posting an impersonation daily to tease her album, The Great Impersonator. As part of the publicity for her fifth studio album, The Great Impersonator, Halsey posted a series of photos and videos of herself impersonating her artistic inspirations, like [Marilyn Monroe](https://www.instagram.com/p/DBhN5mJT9Eg/?img_index=1), [Fiona Apple](https://www.instagram.com/p/DBZaStEyv98/?img_index=1), and [Bruce Springsteen](https://www.instagram.com/p/DBJ8nNHyhdp/?img_index=1). X users then chimed in with their own edits of Halsey “impersonating” various figures, like [Sue Sylvester](https://x.com/dreamsandprose/status/1845071179356225774) from Glee, [Taylor Swift](https://x.com/MPopCravess/status/1845170483941212172), and [Victoria](https://x.com/wontforgethoney/status/1848498762605596782) from Twilight. There was also [even one post](https://x.com/2002scoobydoo/status/1844852882446655807) likening James Charles to Halsey impersonating Pink, which is gutting and hilarious in its accuracy. — James Factora #### X content ## “Which could mean nothing…” ![Matt Damon and Ben Affleck stand arm in arm at the premiere of Good Will Hunting. Both co-scripted and starred in the movie. ](https://media.them.us/photos/666b01ec5f7d1cd1b4201463/master/w_775%2Cc_limit/635926863) ["Which Could Mean Nothing”: The Uniquely Gen Z Joy of Discovering Mattfleck](https://www.them.us/story/mattfleck-memes-ben-affleck-matt-damon-tiktok-which-could-mean-nothing) TikTok has been overtaken with memes celebrating Matt Damon and Ben Affleck’s close friendship. Fewer things made me feel more ancient this year than learning that Gen Z had discovered Ben Affleck and Matt Damon’s close friendship and begun making TikToks about this infamous bit of reportage from blogger Lainey Gossip: “Matt Damon not wearing wedding ring again during another visit to Ben Affleck’s house which could mean nothing.” Homoerotic fancams multiplied this year to the point that they inspired [a full-on trend piece here at Them](https://www.them.us/story/mattfleck-memes-ben-affleck-matt-damon-tiktok-which-could-mean-nothing), But really? Did people truly not know that Mattfleck was a thing until now? It’s not like there are very many Zoomer movie stars (yet) to pay attention to, and these two best buds have been appearing in movies together since the early ’90s. Has nobody under the age of 30 streamed Good Will Hunting? 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Readable Markdown	Twitter hasn’t been the same ever since billionaire Elon Musk [bought it](https://www.them.us/story/trans-twitter-death-tik-tok-tumblr) in 2022 and reintroduced it as X. Still, the spirit of gay Twitter has proved to be remarkably persistent, regularly churning out memes, goofs, and gags on par with the posts that defined the platform in its heyday. Sure, you may have had to scroll through crypto scams and bogus supplement ads to get to the good stuff, but it was still there. And for the more pop culture-oriented memery and fanposting, TikTok helped fill in the gaps, as the endless [Rhaenicent edits](https://www.them.us/story/house-of-the-dragon-rhaenicent-ship-sapphic-coded-relationship) proved. As more of the internet’s queerest and cleverest denizens [migrate to BlueSky](https://www.npr.org/2024/11/19/g-s1-34898/bluesky-traffic-surge-after-election) this month, hopefully this online culture can recreate itself elsewhere, but for now most of the best memes of 2024 were born on a website owned by a man who despises the kind of people who make them. Let this be a lesson: If you want to stay in touch with online culture, you need to follow the gay people, not alienate them. Amid the otherwise hellish landscape of 2024, queer posters delivered some of our only moments of laughter and catharsis: Challengers ended up making \$96 million at the box office, but it felt at times like there were more tweets about it than there were tickets sold. Charli XCX and her [Brat summer](https://www.them.us/story/charli-xcx-gregg-araki-brat-album-cover) dovetailed nicely with [Jools LeBron’s](https://www.them.us/story/what-is-demure-jools-lebron-tik-tok-trend) “very demure, very mindful” phenomenon to keep our collective mood light during the warmer months. And come fall, nothing brought more joy than scrolling through [hyperspecific niche Halloween costumes](https://www.them.us/story/i-hate-gay-halloween-memes-chappell-roan-bottoms-challengers) and [Wicked memes](https://www.them.us/story/is-your-pussy-green-meme-wicked-movie-cynthia-erivo) that revealed just how media-obsessed many LGBTQ+ people are. To cap off this turbulent year, I asked Them staffers to share their favorite memes of the year — the posts that carried us through to an uncertain 2025. After reviewing them all, I think you’ll agree: As posters, queer people are unmatched, but maybe we should (sometimes) log off. — Samantha Allen ## *“Three tickets to Challengers, please”* ![Image may contain: Aubrey Plaza, Person, Teen, Adult, Head, Face, and Text](https://media.them.us/photos/662fc2f82cc2ace8e1b4904c/master/w_775%2Cc_limit/challengers.jpg) Clearly, the movie left plenty of viewers reminiscing about their own favorite would-be pop culture polycules. They say the humble triangle is the strongest shape, and it certainly [had its moment](https://www.them.us/story/challengers-throuple-memes-three-tickets) this spring thanks to Luca Guadagnino’s tennis threesome movie. Upon release, social media users had a field day imagining the kind of fictional triads who might go see Challengers together, ranging from April Ludgate and her gay boyfriends in Parks and Recreation to, of course, Bella, Edward, and Jacob from Twilight. That latter trio leads to a natural question: Would a werewolf or a vampire be more likely to win the New Rochelle Challenger? Hopefully we’ll find out one day. — Samantha Allen ## J.K. Rowling mold infestation In July, J.K. Rowling changed her profile picture on X to a seemingly innocuous selfie — that is, until the internet seized upon a dark smudge on one of her walls in the background. People immediately [latched](https://x.com/MarkGComedyUK/status/1821581851263488211) [onto](https://x.com/marionumber4/status/1819377423315579366) [the](https://x.com/NeilNevins/status/1818623509758984479) [joke](https://x.com/DewEnjoyer/status/1826974005464596595) that the Harry Potter author’s home has been infested with black mold for years, leading to a slow breakdown of her sanity that has resulted in a near-pathological obsession with trans people. Of course, there’s no evidence that Rowling’s home is actually mold-ridden. But it’s definitely easier (and most importantly, funnier) to think about her being transphobic because of fungi-induced madness rather than her just being a genuine bigot. — James Factora ## Rhaenicent ![A still from ‘House of the Dragon’ showing two characters in dresses standing in front of a banquet.](https://media.them.us/photos/66840e3ad017fb43a29ec6ce/master/w_775%2Cc_limit/olivia_emma_header_HOTD.jpg) The relationship between Rhaenyra and Alicent may not be canonically queer, but even the actors see the signs. No show had the same impact on my Twitter feed this year as House of the Dragon season two did. As a Game of Thrones fans who is very much still upset about the final season, I refused to watch the first season of HotD… until I discovered Rhaenicent memes. Once I caught up, I spent every single Sunday watching the new season and nothing brought me more joy than scrolling through Rhaenicent edits afterward, reveling in the tension of the will-they-won’t-they relationship between Queen Rhaenyra (the one and only Emma D’Arcy) and Alicent Olivia Cooke. This show gave us drama, yearning, dragons, fighting over the throne, and a lot of prolonged eye contact. Plus, some really hot British accents. This wasn’t just a solitary experience, either; as my DMs with our senior news editor Sally Tamarkin prove, a lot of queer viewers bonded over their love of Rhaenicent. — Ana Osorno ## “I hate gay Halloween” ![Image may contain: Myriam El Khomri, Ishtar Yasin Gutierrez, Clothing, Costume, Person, Footwear, High Heel, Shoe, and Adult](https://media.them.us/photos/671f9b99b2895fe3df5c541b/master/w_775%2Cc_limit/halloween.jpg) What do you mean you’re the bisexual couch from IKEA’s 2021 Pride collection? When it comes to Halloween costumes, queer people tend to cook a little too hard. Gone are the days when we would dress up as firefighters or princesses. Now, we have to be [“the guy who shoved Brittany Broski during the ‘Apple’ dance at the Sweat tour in LA”](https://x.com/filemyrph/status/1849172184549188055) or the [literal serve from Challengers](https://x.com/MOULlNR0UGE/status/1850352701139304951). The absurdity of this trend inspired a counter-reaction in the form of exhausted “I hate gay Halloween” [tweets in 2022 and 2023](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-hate-gay-halloween), but this year it backfired, with people simply citing the phrase ironically as they posted their extremely niche costumes. Look, as a community, it’s time for us to look inward. If you want to tell someone you’ve seen a queer arthouse film, get a Letterboxd account. If you want to go to a Halloween party, be a witch or a ghost. — Samantha Allen ## “Is your pussy green?” ![Wicked movie poster](https://media.them.us/photos/671120cd8d4a8f57c3f07d08/master/w_775%2Cc_limit/wicked-meme.jpg) The Wicked meme is back on our feeds in part because Erivo posted about it. Here's the origin story. \*Elder voice\* Ten years ago, in the wake of the smash success of Wicked, the Wizard of Oz prequel that took Broadway by storm, an unnamed graffiti scribe (poet? artist? savant?) wrote four simple words on the iconic poster for the musical: [“Is your pussy green?”](https://www.them.us/story/is-your-pussy-green-meme-wicked-movie-cynthia-erivo) The seminal image became a meme passed down through the eons, reemerging each year until one day a movie adaptation was finally born. But when internet fans of Wicked started to recirculate the meme, the film’s Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo) was not having it at all. “This is the wildest, most offensive thing I have seen,” she wrote, with further complaints about the meme. Erivo has since walked back her outrage. “I probably should have called my friends,” she [later told](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ag7UcB5n15A) Entertainment Tonight. — Fran Tirado ## “Girl, so confusing” fancams ![Image may contain: Lorde, Accessories, Clothing, Coat, Sunglasses, Jacket, Adult, Person, Glasses, Long Sleeve, and Sleeve](https://media.them.us/photos/6675ad3547ad0477623339d3/master/w_775%2Cc_limit/THEM%2520Girl%2520So%2520Confusing%2520Remix%2520Header%2520$1$.jpg) Seems like lots of people agree with Charli’s own take on Lorde’s verse: “F\\king hell.” After Charli XCX and Lorde worked it out on the remix, the internet did indeed go crazy. And of course, this meant that the song instantly became fodder for countless TikToks about famous duos of best frenemies. There are the usual suspects, like [Jennifer and Needy](https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8L4bSR1/) of Jennifer’s Body. But my favorites are the ones that are decidedly kind of out there, like this [weirdly intricate edit](https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8L4abbT/) of Squidward from Spongebob Squarepants, and this one of [Morrissey and Robert Smith](https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8L4nEb8/). — James Factora ## “Mama, kudos for saying that. For spilling.” ![Plane Jane](https://media.them.us/photos/65f99e4ab6b6a00f2cb588fc/master/w_775%2Cc_limit/mama_kudos.jpeg) No sooner did Plane Jane utter these words to fellow Drag Race contestant Q than a new meme was born. In certain contexts, some queer lingo isn’t even appropriate for the Werk Room — and that was arguably the case with Drag Race contestant Plane Jane’s response to Q talking about the stigma of being HIV-positive: “Mama, kudos for saying that. For spilling.” The viral moment inspired a wave of captioned movie and TV stills imagining what it would be like for characters to say those iconic words in other inappropriate situations. My personal favorite? [Jennifer Garner in Love, Simon responding to her son’s coming out.](https://x.com/TomZohar/status/1769185873613238565) But there are many more that [we’ve curated](https://www.them.us/story/our-favorite-mama-kudos-for-saying-that-for-spilling-memes-so-far) for your enjoyment. Remember: There are moments in life that call for us to erase the gay dictionary from our brains and simply say things like, “Thank you,” and we’d do well to recognize them. — Samantha Allen ## “Very demure, very mindful” ![An influencer in various poses, in pink, against a yellow backdrop, with text that says, “very demure” and “very mindful.”](https://media.them.us/photos/66be6319ab47ff383bd9da67/master/w_775%2Cc_limit/THEM%2520Demure%2520Mindful%2520Header.jpg) Demure is the moment. Here’s how trans women created TikTok’s latest viral internet trend. If you were on the internet this fall (or perhaps wearing a dreaded green cut crease), you couldn’t go anywhere without hearing the phrase “very demure, very mindful.” Coined by [trans creator Jools LeBron](https://www.them.us/story/what-is-demure-jools-lebron-tik-tok-trend), the trend pokes fun at videos providing earnest advice about how to be classy, or “demure” and “mindful,” and just highlights that once again, trans women are the tastemakers and trendsetters of our culture. Despite people trying to steal her shine and go so far as [attempting to trademark](https://www.them.us/story/jools-lebron-mindful-demure-meme-trademark-application) the phrase out from under her, LeBron came out victorious and has even been able to earn enough money to afford the rest of her gender-affirming care thanks to the fateful TikTok. — Quispe López ## “Chudai” ![Image may contain: Chess, Game, and Text](https://media.them.us/photos/66ff14c22b45f10cb211b02f/master/w_775%2Cc_limit/chudai-2.jpg) A word from the 1800s has found new life in gay memes and among OnlyFans creators, but what’s the translation and why is it all over my explicit content? “Chudai give up or chudai just keep chasing pavements?” That is the question that has plagued consumers of X-rated content, particularly those who’ve seen the word “chudai” routinely used as a caption for porn with no context on how or why that word was being used. Them [diligently reported](https://www.them.us/story/what-is-chudai-why-porn-captions-twitter-translation-origin-slang-term-onlyfans-x-india-brazil) on an origin story for the Urdu slang, which simply means “sex.” Case closed! Now wait, but wtf is “Wataa?” — Fran Tirado ## Halsey’s multiple impersonations ![Halsey](https://media.them.us/photos/67191c523d00319c9e30b7bd/master/w_775%2Cc_limit/halsey.jpg) Halsey has been posting an impersonation daily to tease her album, The Great Impersonator. As part of the publicity for her fifth studio album, The Great Impersonator, Halsey posted a series of photos and videos of herself impersonating her artistic inspirations, like [Marilyn Monroe](https://www.instagram.com/p/DBhN5mJT9Eg/?img_index=1), [Fiona Apple](https://www.instagram.com/p/DBZaStEyv98/?img_index=1), and [Bruce Springsteen](https://www.instagram.com/p/DBJ8nNHyhdp/?img_index=1). X users then chimed in with their own edits of Halsey “impersonating” various figures, like [Sue Sylvester](https://x.com/dreamsandprose/status/1845071179356225774) from Glee, [Taylor Swift](https://x.com/MPopCravess/status/1845170483941212172), and [Victoria](https://x.com/wontforgethoney/status/1848498762605596782) from Twilight. There was also [even one post](https://x.com/2002scoobydoo/status/1844852882446655807) likening James Charles to Halsey impersonating Pink, which is gutting and hilarious in its accuracy. — James Factora ## “Which could mean nothing…” ![Matt Damon and Ben Affleck stand arm in arm at the premiere of Good Will Hunting. Both co-scripted and starred in the movie. ](https://media.them.us/photos/666b01ec5f7d1cd1b4201463/master/w_775%2Cc_limit/635926863) TikTok has been overtaken with memes celebrating Matt Damon and Ben Affleck’s close friendship. Fewer things made me feel more ancient this year than learning that Gen Z had discovered Ben Affleck and Matt Damon’s close friendship and begun making TikToks about this infamous bit of reportage from blogger Lainey Gossip: “Matt Damon not wearing wedding ring again during another visit to Ben Affleck’s house which could mean nothing.” Homoerotic fancams multiplied this year to the point that they inspired [a full-on trend piece here at Them](https://www.them.us/story/mattfleck-memes-ben-affleck-matt-damon-tiktok-which-could-mean-nothing), But really? Did people truly not know that Mattfleck was a thing until now? It’s not like there are very many Zoomer movie stars (yet) to pay attention to, and these two best buds have been appearing in movies together since the early ’90s. Has nobody under the age of 30 streamed Good Will Hunting? Alas, time comes for us all. — Samantha Allen *Get the best of what’s queer.* [Sign up for Them’s weekly newsletter here.](https://www.them.us/newsletter/subscribe)
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