It Says You're Gay

About

“It Says You Are Gay” is a catchphrase associated with a painting of an old man pointing a book while talking to a kid. The picture, often used to describe dislike of someone’s opinion, has become an exploitable and inspired a series of image macros.

Origin

The original image was created by the surrealist painter Viktor Safonkin on 2004, on a painting called Dogma, despicting an old man talking to a kid while pointing a book.^[1] On July 29th, 2010, a captioned version of the painting was uploaded to the Finnish website Naurunappula.^[3] The image recieved over 31,000 views in less than five years.

Spread

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

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