Drake gay pose

One person asked, “Why he look like that one girl from Polar Express?” and another stating, “stuns is not the way to describe this.” Many users also posed the question: “Stuns where?”

In recent years, Drake has often switched up his hair.

Drake posted an image to his Instagram Story showing himself lying in bed with a cast on his knee, captioned "New challenge unlocked."

In January 2021, Drake announced he was delaying his album Certified Lover Boy to continue his recovery after knee surgery. On that day, for example, Twitter user @willfulchaos posted the image with the caption, "drake’s never beating the gay allegations 😭" gaining over 600 likes in three days.

On January 20th, Twitter user @lnbshr tweeted, "drake rn in the BBL recovery center" along with an image of someone laying in bed relaxing, gaining over 31,700 likes and 4,500 retweets in seven years (shown below).

On July 18th, TikToker @official_pitbull2 posted a video starting with an Instagram Boomerang in which Drake puts his hands on his hips and shakes his head, followed by a selfie of Drake and Nicki Minaj, gaining over 2.1 million views in a month (shown below).

Instagram user @mybloodyvirginators posted a photoshopped version of the image that day with added Snapchat text about going somewhere and smoking a joint, gaining over 2,500 likes in three days (shown below). The Story was deleted at some point that day by Drake.

On that day, Twitter user @IvyKungu posted the image with the caption, "this is exactly how i feel in an oversized sweatshirt.

The trend became notably popular on TikTok in August 2021.

Origin

BBL Effect

Around 2020, there was a TikTok joke about the "BBL Effect," which describes the changes, both physical and otherwise, that someone goes through after getting a Brazilian butt lift. At times, the “Best I Ever Had” singer has sported colorful beads at the ends of his cornrows.

In sweet father-son moments, Drake has matched his braids with his 7-year-old son Adonis.

The latest look is a switch up from the hair he was sporting during Adonis’ SpongeBob-themed birthday party. That same day, Twitter user @KeilahDashh retweeted the image, adding "Ariana Grande has 24 hours to respond," referencing Grande's tendency to wear large sweaters and make this hand pose, gaining over 80,000 likes and 10,000 retweets in the same span of time (shown below, right).

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That day, Twitter users began sharing the photo on the site, particularly in posts making fun of the image.

However, it was his pigtails that stole the show.

After all the two ponytails were braided at the ends and finished with blue bubble hair barrettes at the end.

Fans quickly took to social media to react Drake’s hair. It was shared by @on_a_downward_spiral that day, gaining over 53,000 likes.

The search term "Drake Gay" became popular on Twitter in the following days, receiving a significant boost in Google search traffic.

The beat received over 1.5 million plays on Soundcloud in less than 24 hours (seen below).

Related Memes

Drake's Mirror Selfie

Drake's Mirror Selfie refers to a mirror selfie taken by Canadian recording artist Drake that was posted to his Instagram Story in which the rapper is wearing an oversized wool sweater and holding his hand up to his face, almost resembling a cat paw.

On August 2nd, Instagram page @tinycelebrities posted a photoshop of the image featuring Drake with short legs, gaining over 7,500 likes in two days (shown below).

On the same date, @on_a_downward_spiral posted a 21st Century video edit to Instagram featuring the image, gaining over 227,000 views in two days (shown below).

Various Examples

Search Interest

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