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what does gay people go brrrr mean?

Maybe the gay people needed to put on an extra sweater because they were cold?

In my head, this book is now about a gay expedition to the South Pole.

Near as I can figure, gay people go brrrr means gay people exist. The go brr thing seems to come from a machine making a noise as it works.

All I could think of was an epic bass drop.

Like a lost Skrillex song. “Gay people go brrrrrr brr brr brr brr brrr~”

short answer, it's a meme

long answer, the original meme "was money printer go brrr" which is about the economy - it depicts conservatives complaining about the federal government doing deficit-spending and taking inflationary actions (in effect, printing money) while a guy representing the federal government says "hahahaha money printer go brrr". the basic setup of the meme is the "money printer go brrr" guy is sort of stupid but he's also winning. he's a big idiot and doesn't care about any of the surrounding arguments so he can just watch the money printer go, and that's a victory. and then the phrase got adapted to express that basic sentiment in other contexts - basically the message is "i am a simple person and i am simply enjoying some thing and none of the discourse about it can bother me and therefore I win".

so in this context, "gay people go brrr" probably means something akin to "hahahaha there are gay people in this book so I love it and I love being gay. brain empty no thoughts just gay".

Thank you for this clear and in-depth explanation!

Thank you for explaining! - I've been seeing this meme go round for ages and was too afraid to ask what it meant.

This is really minor, but the original meme was about the a-10 plane. Lots of people said that the a-10 sucks and should be retired already, but fans replied that the plane's machine gun goes BRRRT. There was also a bunch of memes beforehand about the infamous machine gun noise (srsly the noise is worth checking on YouTube), but the a-10 goes BRRR was successful enough to escape context.

That's what I thought it was lol. I remember it from 4chan days.

There seems to be Serious Debate over whether the A-10 meme and the money printer meme are actually the same or are two unrelated memes that resemble each other

but the money printer meme is definitely the reason it's a thing in the last couple years

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(Anonymous) - 2022-02-16 02:34 (UTC) - Expand

Thank you!
I can get meaning from context, but I've never known about printer thing

My fucking question, too.

I mean, it's a studied text in a variety of classes. You're bound to see a spectrum of people, from the "intelligent Literature People" who suck the enjoyment out of everything with their aren't-I-clever-ness, to the "gay ppl go brr" people who probably signed up specifically for the Gay Ppl Go Brr Studies class.

*raises hand*
Where can I sign up for that class?

I feel like, for me personally, the nexus between Thoughtful Intelligent Insightful Literature People and ha ha gay people go brrr is absolutely where I want to live. That is the absolute sweet spot of fandom. Those are the two attitudes that I want people to apply for any fandom I'm in, quite frankly. Those two things go together like peanut butter and chocolate. A fandom dream team.

I've read pretty much all of Renault except The Charioteer and at this point I'm just avoiding it because people on the internet act so weird about it

I'm say do it anyway. I've read a fair bit of Renault and it feels somehow fundamental to fitting all the other pieces together.

Be prepared for some pretty blatant casual misogyny. Eurgh.

I mean. I've read Renault. The fact that she thinks being a woman sucks ass isn't exactly subtle. I'm prepared

looked up what this was about and yeah, I'll just say gay war media made when people pretended gay people existed in pocket universes that were going straight to hell, if they acknowledged they existed at all, is pretty much all like this. like I'm not surprised; those two group are exactly what i'd expect.

in fact I'll go further, and say the historical context in which this book produced interested literary critics only produced them because you could probably only justify your "yas gays!" impulse through intellectual critique, so it's not surprising that people who don't have that context have chosen "yas gays!" outright.

Isn't it just because it's Mary Renault? She has occupied this space in queer lit fandom for ages. I've not read this novel but I was briefly in the fandom for the Alexander the Great books almost 20 years ago and it was exactly like this.

My problem with The Charioteer is that it is misogynist as FUCK. Genuinely couldn't finish it.

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