Now we’re firmly in spooky season, it’s no surprise that “gay halloween” memes are taking over Twitter/X. The format is simple. Users share examples of hyper-specific Halloween costumes ...

“In girl world,” she narrates, “Halloween is the one night a year when a girl can dress like a total slut and no other girls can say anything about it.” The rise of the meme costume might ...

On Saturday our Video Producer Kyle Calise explores the origins and history of the most iconic memes online in his “Meme History” column. If you want to read columns like this a day before ...

Lisa Morton, author of “Trick or Treat: A History of Halloween,” says this shift had been underway for well over half a century before internet memes entered the fray. It was during the 1950s ...

There are different levels of Halloween lovers. For some, the holiday is an excuse to dress up and party. They relish the chance to pull out festive decor or have a candy free-for-all. But for ...

From niche costumes to obscure pop culture references, the “I hate gay Halloween” trend has exploded on social media, as people show off their most unique and hyper-specific Halloween looks ...

While half of the country deals with the Halloween aftermath of last weekend ... Whether it was an obscure meme only a select few would know or the year's biggest Hollywood character, users ...

The rare overlap of Diwali and Halloween on October 31 has inspired social media's creativity with users sharing memes on combining the two holidays. In a rare and unusual coincidence, Diwali and ...

One of the earliest versions of the “gay Halloween” meme surfaced in 2022, in which one X/Twitter user jokingly referenced the 1997 cult classic comedy film Romy and Michele’s High School ...

There are a few days to go until the spookiest holiday of the year, but folks are already been dressing up as their favorite memes for Halloween. Sometimes, “I hate gay Halloween” is omitted ...

the “I hate gay halloween” meme is back for 2024. It first took off last year. Sorry Freddy Krueger, Chucky and Pennywise; for Halloween 2023, queer people were only interested in dressing up in the ...