The Forgotten Gay Cable Network That Changed LGBTQ History Madison Cawthorn Thrusting His Naked Body on Another Man’s Face Doesn’t Tell Us Much About His “Gayness” There was even a minor controversy, covered in Paper magazine, over whether Dat Boi was an example of cultural appropriation because of its use of AAVE spellings, as described above. “Here come dat boi!” the standard text announces, with the response “o shit waddup!” It’s quite charming, as memes go, and was popular enough to have been covered in the mainstream press, including Vox and New York magazine. Dat Boi is a piece of absurdist humor using an image of a frog on a unicycle the frog is placed in historical, fantasy, or futuristic environments, and the only joke is the strangeness and specificity of him being sighted by, say, Legolas of Lord of the Rings. The big milestone of this newer, meme-influenced use is something called the Dat Boi meme.
On the other hand, r/bois was genuinely the first place I felt like I could be accepted for being a gender nonconforming AFAB person who likes being called a boy. In some ways it’s good that gender lines are less important, and of course things shift definition over the years (in terms of the meme use).
