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The horror movie The Babadook. By Katherine Dee. By Stephen Andrew Galiher. Why this monster specifically?. The Babadook came out in But then Rex started finding all these queer memes—pictures of the Babadook beside rainbow flags, or wearing pink flamingo sunglasses.

By Lauren Boisvert. Videos by VICE. Looking back at The Babadook today, I can see how she became a queer icon. In an interview with Broadly, Rex shared his account of what appears to be a mass cultural happening.

How The Babadook Became

The Babadook’s origin story In writer-director Jennifer Kent’s movie, the Babadook manifests itself in a baba-book called Mister Babadook. Years ago, like everyone else, I watched the much-lauded horror film, The Babadook. He realized that the Babadook is queer seemingly simultaneously with hundreds of other people.

This investigation into how The Babadook became a gay icon was originally published in It has been updated throughout and republished for Pride Month. So, How Did the Babadook Become a Queer Icon? By Luis Prada. Follow Us On Discover. The Babadook first manifests in a storybook, in which the creature pops out of every page saying disturbing things while showing you its creepy face and long, slender hands.

The dark, shadow lurker terrified me: It clawed on the wall and croaked its own name like a true freak. While Gay Babadook lived and died as all memes do, it is fascinating to look back on the why of it all. The Babadook, a metaphor for grief, became an LGBTQ icon through memes, pop culture, and resonating themes of oppression and acceptance.

The Babadook is obviously an assigned-male-at-birth individual and yet, unlike other male-type horror-antagonists that are often hulking and brutal, the Babadook is slender and feminine. The Babadook turns out to be completely obsessed with tormenting the innocent mother and son at the center of the film, and the whole movie is absolutely depressing, but I did enjoy it.

Perhaps the most iconic meme lauding the queer Babadook was created by Twitter user LGBTHanSolo, whose recent music video has garnered the attention of mainstream media and tens of thousands of Twitter fans. The Babadook first manifests in a storybook, in which the creature pops out of every page saying disturbing things while showing you its creepy face and long, slender hands.