![]() community has known all along: the Babadook is one of us. Need proof? Look no further than Netflix’s Twitter account, which on Friday seemed to validate what the L.G.B.T. And thus, a movie that was already three-years-old was brought back from the dead, as Mister Babadook popped up in pride celebrations across the country in June of 2017 one of the most iconic images of that era being Miles Jai, gay influencer and actor, dressing up as the Babadook to the season nine finale of RuPaul’s Drag Race. community the Babadook is a symbol of our journey.”) The ghoul’s out-and-proud status has been one of the Internet’s most fun in-jokes for several months-but it wasn’t until Pride Month 2017 hit that this non-canonical but delightful version of the character made it big. (As one user facetiously put it, “It may be ‘just a movie’ to you but to the L.G.B.T. Amusingly enough, Netflix became part of the meme earlier, when a. By now, it seems safe to assume that everyone recognizes the Babadook’s status as one of Hollywood’s greatest gay icons-right up there with RuPaul, Kristen Stewart, and Miranda Priestly’s pursed lips in The Devil Wears Prada.įor those who don’t? The Babadiscourse about the 2014 Australian horror movie’s central villain started-where else?- on Tumblr, where various users banded together last fall to insist, nay, demand that everyone recognize the horror villain as the complex gay character he is. The tweet came with no fanfare or cutesy text, but its timingduring the first week of Pride Monthmakes the message obvious.
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