# Down With Cis "Down With Cis" started as an April 2015 Tumblr story about a cis person allegedly beaten up by a gang wearing matching slogan t-shirts, a tale so implausible that trans Tumblr users adopted the phrase as a joke within weeks. By May 2015, photoshops of Buck Dewey, Pepe the Frog and Homura Akemi holding the shirts turned the fabricated bus of assailants into a running Tumblr gag. ## Origin On April 4, 2015, Tumblr user ForeverHonest shared an anecdote describing a friend being ambushed by a group in matching "Down With Cis" shirts and beaten in a drive-by style attack, a post that drew more than 9,000 notes within a month[1]. The implausibility of a coordinated t-shirt gang, combined with echoes of "that happened" Reddit storytelling, led readers across political alignments to suspect the story was fabricated or a satire of standard Tumblr violence anecdotes[8]. - **Platform:** Tumblr - **Creator:** Unknown - **Date:** 2015 ## Overview Posts riff on the imagined "down with cis bus," a vehicle supposedly transporting cis-hating assailants between drive-by beatings[1]. Image edits put the slogan on t-shirts worn by cartoon and anime characters, with Buck Dewey from Steven Universe and Pepe the Frog among the earliest subjects[3][4]. Text posts ask readers to reblog if they ride the bus, whether it hosts parties, or how to buy a ticket, functioning as flame-trolling bait aimed at users who might take the premise seriously[5][6]. Because the slogan reads as either sincere cisphobia or a parody of it, trans Tumblr users treat the whole bit as a case of Poe's Law, with the joke sitting in the ambiguity itself[8]. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Down With Cis? An ironic Tumblr slogan from April 2015 that mocks both cisphobia and transphobia, originating in a fabricated story about a gang wearing matching t-shirts[1][8]. ### Where did Down With Cis come from? Tumblr user ForeverHonest's April 4, 2015 post describing a friend being attacked by assailants in "Down With Cis" shirts, a story the platform quickly treated as a hoax[1]. ### What does Down With Cis mean? The phrase is deliberately ambiguous, read by some as sincere anti-cis sentiment and by others as a parody of it, which is why trans Tumblr users adopted it as flame-trolling bait[6][8]. ### How do you use Down With Cis? Common uses include photoshopping the slogan onto t-shirts worn by cartoon or anime characters and writing text posts about the fictional "down with cis bus," such as asking who rides it or whether it hosts parties[3][5]. ### Is Down With Cis still popular? It peaked in May 2015 and is now a dated Tumblr-era reference, remembered as a Poe's Law classic rather than an active format[7][8]. ## References 1. [https://web.archive.org/web/20150603190416/https://foreverhonest.tumblr.com/post/115501369966/heres-a-thing-that-happened-to-one-of-my-friends]() 2. [http://transgirlnausicaa.tumblr.com/post/115819265122/shirts-for-oppressing-cis-people]() 3. [http://sistermeme.tumblr.com/post/118171227772]() 4. [https://alienspeed.tumblr.com/post/118203536839/rare-pepe]() 5. [https://skyerin.tumblr.com/post/118215991699/reblog-if-you-were-on-the-down-with-cis-bus]() 6. [https://web.archive.org/web/20150508194053/https://sourcefieldmix.tumblr.com/post/118194569189/do-you-think-the-down-with-cis-bus-does-parties]() 7. [https://chandra-nalaar.tumblr.com/post/118261163551]() 8. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/down-with-cis]() 9. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVEkgAV3b8Y]() 10. [https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Down%20With%20Cis]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/down-with-cis Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library