About

"It Says You Are Gay" is a catchphrase paired with a painting of an elder scholar pointing a book while speaking to a child to create an image macro. The picture, often used to describe dislike of someone's opinion, has become an exploitable.

Origin

The original image is a from 2004 painting titled Dogma by the surrealist painter Viktor Safonkin. On July 29th, 2010, a captioned version of the painting was uploaded to the Finnish website Naurunappula.^[3] By 2015, the image received over 31,000 views.

Percursor

A similar instance of the catchphrase and the picture can be found on a Cyanide and Happiness comic published on February 17th, 2005, where one of the characters asks what does mean that he keeps getting a negative answer on a maths problem, with the reply "It means you are gay".^[5]

Spread

On February 16th, 2012, user Kodaka uploaded the captioned picture to the meme sharing website MemeCenter, garnering over 250 likes in three years.^[2] On November 14th, 2013, a comment on the media sharing page FunnyJunk featured an image depicting an edited version of the painting with the caption "It Says You're a Heretic", as a reference to heresy from Warhammer 40,000.^[4]

Various Examples

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