I Stand With Lesbian Babadook

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Overview

I Stand With Lesbian Babadook refers to a controversy involving voice actor Aimee Carrero and Twitter user @LesbianBabadook after @LesbianBabadook posted a meme about having to put Carrero in a guillotine when the class wars start. Carrero responded on Twitter by retweeting the meme and saying it was a death threat in April 2020. Twitter users came to @LesbianBabadook's defense with the trending hashtag #IStandWithLesbianBabadook.^[7]

Background

On April 8th, 2020 Twitter user and She-Ra voice actor @aimeecarrero^[1] tweeted "Death threats from “fans” are super fun!" and continued by replying, "She’s so brave to block me. Here is the tweet in case she deletes it:" (shown below). The tweet garnered 100 likes and included a screenshot of @LesbianBabadook's meme which they did not tag @aimeecarrero in.

Developments

On April 9th, Aimee Carrero^[2] continued to defend her response to the meme by tweeting, "Here’s how it works: you post about slicing my head off with a guillotine, or any other scenario that ends in my death…you’re getting reposted. Don’t want that for you? Don’t make “jokes” about killing me. It couldn’t be simpler. 💁🏽‍♀️" which gained over 600 likes in a day. She then replied with several more comments saying "'bUt iTz a MeMe!' Yes, a meme…about killing me," “'nO, nO, iTs a ReFereNcE tO ThE FrEncH reVolUTiOn,' yes…in which you chop my head off," and "'sHe sAid ShE wOuLd bE SAD 2 kILL yOu!' …and would do it anyway." That same day, Carrero's partner and Twitter user @Mrtimrock^[3] responded by saying, "lesbianbabadook come play with me, I’m on your level 😘😘" (shown below, right).

That same day, @aimeecarrero^[4] tweeted a screenshot of a homophobic photoshopped tweet that received over 410 likes in a day (shown below, left). That same day, Twitter user @PepeVickery^[5] responded to the controversy by comparing Tony Hawks joking response to a very similar meme about himself and Carrero's response with the caption, "There are 2 types of people in this world #IStandWithLesbianBabadook" (shown below, right). The tweet gained over 6,200 likes and 1,200 retweets in a day.

On April 9th, Twitter user @almostaquatic^[6] tweeted, "A guide to the #IStandWithLesbianBabadook controversy for the uninitiated- the va for she ra reposted a meme made by a much smaller account without blacking out the username claiming it was a death threat- also posted to Instagram" ( shown below). The tweet received over 1,800 likes and 340 retweets in a day.