![]() ![]() I was outed – someone had seen me at a local youth club kissing another lad – and it felt like my life was over. My world seemed to fall apart in 2001 when I was 16. Her songs made me feel that I would be OK and that everything would work out. It was as though she was singing to me, a kid who was so scared and afraid. We all know songs such as Hero, Always Be My Baby and One Sweet Day, but on quieter tracks such as Looking In, Carey sings about being lonely, hurt and confused, of feeling like an outsider. Can’t Take That Away reassured me, when I was 14, that the school bullies who were ramping up their campaign of terror could not take away all the things that made me special.Ĭarey is first and foremost a songwriter. It told me that no matter how hard school was, I would get through it. ![]() When I was 13 and confused, Carey released When You Believe, her duet with Whitney Houston. Listening to When I Saw You, a song about falling in love for the first time, I wondered about whom I would fall in love with and why I was thinking about falling in love with another boy. That is, until I discovered Carey in that car park. I wasn’t aware of any LGBTQ+ role models I could look up to or anyone who could say: “I know it’s awful now, but you will get through this, just like I did.” It was never-ending and there was nowhere to hide. Lots of the other boys would sit in class whispering my name in a drawn-out, effeminate manner: “ Iaaannnnnnnnn.” So I was ignored, pushed, shoved, spat at and vilified. Photograph: Courtesy of Ian EagletonĮverything about me was “gay” and therefore wrong. Splatoon music has it all Eagleton at school. Popularized by a 2020 meme about Eminem, the format saw gradual spread in the following years. Listening to X on Shuffle Be Like is a video caption meme format ion which imagines a person's mood rapidly changing while listening to a shuffled mix of songs by a single band. Related Memes Listening to X on Shuffle Be Like On September 24th, gimmick Twitter account posted a Pokémon Mystery Dungeon version that garnered over 150,000 views, 4,100 retweets and 16,400 likes in two days. For example, on September 23rd, Twitter user posted a Gorillaz meme that accumulated over 209,000 views, 6,000 retweets and 26,800 likes in three days. Vocaloid be like /2iuUeeW5M1įollowing the VOCALOID version, the format achieved virality on Twitter. On September 21st, Twitter user posted the first version of the meme to go viral, comprised of a VOCALOID meme that gained over 350,000 views, 12,900 retweets and 47,100 likes in five days (shown below). Later on September 12th, 2022, Twitter user posted the earliest version based on a video game soundtrack (an Arcknights meme) that gained over 15,000 views, 830 retweets and 2,300 likes in two weeks (shown below). Me listening to my purple kiss playlist /HLf4V9h3Ue ![]() More K-pop versions of the meme were posted on Twitter on that day and in the following days. The meme gained over 1,100 views, 50 retweets and 160 likes on Twitter in two weeks (shown below). On September 12th, 2022, Twitter user posted the earliest found meme based on the video, replacing the songs with Purple Kiss discography. The video gained initial popularity among K-pop stans on Twitter, although its exact first use in memes is currently unknown. The video gained over 298,000 views and 62,000 likes in three weeks (shown below). On September 7th, 2022, TikToker posted a TikTok using a cropped version of video, pairing it with their own Spotify playlist. On June 19th, 2022, TikToker _wlife posted a supercut of music critic and YouTuber Young Dabo reacting to music paired with songs from their personal playlist, captioning the video, "My playlist on shuffle." The video received over 3.1 million views and 870,000 likes in four months (shown below). ![]()
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