Im not gay but 20 is 20 meme
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On August 22nd, TikTok user @itsbluey__ posted an I'm Not Gay But $20 Is $20 meme that received over 462,000 likes in one week (remake shown below).
More versions of the meme went viral on TikTok, YouTube and X in late August 2023.
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I'm Not Gay But 20 Dollars Is 20 Dollars
- Meme
- Status
- Confirmed
- Type:
- Axiom, Catchphrase
- Year
- 2014
- Origin
- Amazon
- Region
- United States
- Tags
- 20 dollars is 20 dollars meme, im not gay but 20 dollars is 20 dollars, im not gay but, im not gay, gay, $20 is $20, $20, 20 dollars, im not gay but $20 is $20
About
I'm Not Gay But 20 Dollars Is 20 Dollars, also known as I'm Not Gay But $20 Is $20 or 20 Whole Dollars, is an axiom that attests if given a monetary reward, one would perform sexual acts that are not typical for their sexuality.
Namely, the joke implies that a straight person would perform gay sex acts once given $20 USD. The joke originated from a t-shirt that was created sometime in 2013.
For instance, an Amazon listing for a t-shirt (shown below) was added to Amazon on October 31st, 2014.
Spread
Going into the 2010s, the phrase gained some usage online but nothing largely viral. Over 1,300 free fonts are also supported for all devices. The meme followed the Increasingly Verbose format and was also similar to the Galaxy Brain format.
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The video (shown below) received over 5.7 million views in five months (shown below).
The exact first instance using the format could not be discovered, but on August 10th, 2023, TikToker tw.lucidfz posted the earliest found meme based on a clip in which a male character switches to a female, captioning the scene "POV: your homie calls you pookie" (shown below).
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Origin
The phrase "I'm not gay but $20 is $20 dollars" was used on Twitter / X as early as January 2013.
For instance, on January 2nd, 2017, Redditor DaChronMan posted to /r/AskReddit subreddit the "What's your 'I'm not gay, but $20 is $20' story?" gaining 11 upvotes in six years.
Currently, the first known viral meme to reference the concept of 20 dollars being 20 dollars was a JoJo's Bizarre Adventure meme posted by Redditor NemesisRider to /r/ShitPostCrusaders on March 11th, 2020.
"Colors" Gender Swap
About
"Colors" Gender Swap is a viral clip from the 2023 short music film Colors animated by Toho Studio and WIT Studio.
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