I have seen at least 1 meme or other joke somewhere on the platform where one also mentioned a “twink” and where that word appeared to be the punchline somehow. I’ve scrolled through Urban Dictionary a bit (haha) and the meanings mentioned there are either literal, using burger as a metaphor for the kind of person who looks like they consume burgers regularly, as a random surrogate for things that are kind of round (haha) or even that aren’t, or 1 Instance of fandom ship name for piece of media where the name of a character sounds like the word for onions in Japanese. That didn’t really get me anywhere. Did I correctly pick up that I don’t get it, or is there nothing more to this word?
I’m not going to pretend I have my finger on the pulse of ‘gays everywhere’ but I’ve never heard, read, seen, or experienced that word being used as anything other than the common usage for a food item.
Edit: You may have witnessed an attempt to make it something, but that sounds like an attempt that failed.
Hey, I don’t know, I think it’s streets ahead.
That’s so fetch.
Stop trying to make ‘Burger’ happen. It’s not going to happen
I think you may have replied to the wrong post.
Milhouse is not a meme
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it can be used separate from a “flame”, which is a term for the very flamboyant gay men regardless of their presentation or physical appearance.
TIL. I’ve heard people being called, usually in a derogatory way, “flamers” or “flaming” but never just “flame”, nor did I understand the context.
The ones that would travel for shows carried all the news and culture with them, like fabulous bards.
So just your average bard, then?
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I greatly appreciate your old man mode. Sounds like a fantastic job.
Here’s the context I think
If this is the context, I believe it has nothing to do with gays or twinks.
Just a sad anime image meant to convey an emotional response, according to Tineye, first seen around 2016, on pages no longer reachable.
First memetized around 2017, with the following image :
Translated labels from left to right : “Your new ‘waifu of the season’”, “you”, “Your waifu, to whom you’d vowed eternal love”. At this stage, the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree: The meme is still aimed at the weeb community that saw its birth, and still makes use of the context implyed by the image.
But to interpret what comes next, you must take into account the rise of “cringe” culture in the early 2020s. Former memes, deemed “cringe”, saw a new birth under several layers of irony to highlight their absurd nature. Here is another meme that underwent the same fate : https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/im-fine
This era also saw the appearance of the words “pog”, “poggers” and “pogchamp”, all of which quickly became cringe. The above meme can therefore be interpreted as a pile of cringe meant to be absurd.
What about burgers? The burger also has a place in meme culture.
Declaring one’s taste for a trash food or another belongs to another memetic trop, that of appearing relatable and whimsical. Most old memes using this trope appear cringe by today’s standard. The image may be a meta-meme about itself, describing the memer’s transition from pre-cringe to post-cringe culture, from “burgers” to “poggers”, and burying the image macros under countless layers of irony.
That, is not what I expected.
ok I recognize all those but otter.
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I feel like one of those characters in a movie who is lowborn and some friend brings them to a high society ball or something and is explaining all the nuances.
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Skinny hairy dudes.
In Urdu, official language of Pakistan, Burger boy is a slang term for someone who has become too westernized and considered too white to be part of their society. As far as I’m aware this is a slang term native to Pakistan and it’s not even native to India which share the language. However it doesn’t have any LGBTQ references as far as I’m aware.
white guy here, eating a double bacon cheeseburger
You guys are missing out, maaaan.
Nom nom nom
Maybe you’re missing out naan.
In my language when referencing to a person as a burger it means asbergers syndrome
This. In general it refers to social awkwardness related to autism. Heard it used mostly as a slur/insult where I live.
Twink = a stereotypically feminine and waifish gay man, with usually a low amount / no body hair. Source: me, a homo
Not sure where burgers come in. Might have been someone making a joke
conjecture: maybe autocorrect once got hold of “bugger” and things kind of evolved from there?
There was a “gay burger” in LA like 3 years ago, maybe it has to do with that?
