About

"Stop Das Gay", alternatively known as "Do I Smell Watermelon", is an image macro series based on photographs that show physical intimacy or proximity between two or more subjects of the same gender, and sometimes objects, usually accompanied by internal monologues illustrating an awkward moment of bromance between two friends.

Origin

The earliest known popular example of the meme was posted by Tumblr user tomatoneedles on June 5th, 2011, gaining over 14,000 notes as of March 2015. It features a captioned image cropped from a painting depicting the kiss of Judas, a pivotal Biblical event in which Judas Iscariot betrays the identity of Jesus to the Romans by kissing him.





Spread

On October 30th, 2011, YouTuber Punkiit uploaded a dramatic reading of the original image's captions, titled "stop Judas that's gay", garnering over 26,000 views as of March 2015.





On May 23rd, 2013, FunnyJunk user jesusucksmydick posted a photoshopped Kanye West image with the meme's conventional captions to the site, receiving over 1,200 net karma.





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