About

I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter is a copypasta about a male who dreams of becoming a helicopter. It mocks gender and sexual identification posts by comparing the desire to be an attack helicopter with the experiences of transgender people and other LGBTQ+ people. The format of the copypasta parodies posts by transgender people about their experience, particularly those found on forums and blogging sites, most notably Tumblr; exploring the topic by including references to social justice terms like check your privilege.

Origin

This copypasta was originally written by Team Fortress 2 user Guuse^[1] in 2014 on March 17th, and was added to his Pastebin.^[2]

I sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter. Ever since I was a boy I dreamed of soaring over the oilfields dropping hot sticky loads on disgusting foreigners. People say to me that a person being a helicopter is Impossible and I'm fucking retarded but I don't care, I'm beautiful. I'm having a plastic surgeon install rotary blades, 30 mm cannons and AMG-114 Hellfire missiles on my body. From now on I want you guys to call me "Apache" and respect my right to kill from above and kill needlessly. If you can't accept me you're a heliphobe and need to check your vehicle privilege. Thank you for being so understanding.

Guuse originally wrote the copypasta for use as spam by binding it to key terms in-game chat rooms during arguments on gender identity politics. In December 2014, Guuse posted a claim of authorship of the copypasta to his recruitment page on the European Team Fortress Two site.^[6]

Spread

After the original stream, the copypasta was submitted first to /r/copypasta^[4] on Reddit in July 2014, where it received 371 upvotes, and then to /r/sidehugs^[3] where it received 187 upvotes. The copypasta and its mutations are used frequently on 4chan, especially the /pol/ and /v/ boards, where it has been used 288 times and 153 times respectively as of August 2015.^[7][8] It was used over 600 times in YouTube comments as of August 2015, and derivations were used another 300 times.^[9][10]

On May 18, 2014, a definition titled "helisexual" was submitted on Urban Dictionary ^[5], featuring multiple references to the original copypasta.

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