I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter

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Published August 30, 2026

A 2014 copypasta written by Team Fortress 2 player Guuse in which a man declares he sexually identifies as an attack helicopter, parodying earnest Tumblr gender identity posts1. Guuse originally used it to spam in-game arguments before Reddit and 4chan turned it into one of the most reposted copypastas of the mid-2010s3.

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Overview

The copypasta is written in the voice of a young man who insists, with total sincerity, that he sexually identifies as an attack helicopter and that anyone who questions this is a bigot3. It borrows the cadence of first-person Tumblr identity posts, complete with pleas to check your privilege and lines about people being triggered by his rotors3. The joke works because the format sticks so closely to earnest coming-out language that the absurd payload lands as parody rather than argument.

Most of the versions floating around are near-verbatim reposts of Guuse's original text, with small tweaks swapping the aircraft for tanks, AC-130s, or other vehicles2. A short-form spinoff appeared on Urban Dictionary on May 18, 2014, where a user submitted a definition for "helisexual" that cited the copypasta directly4. The template later became shorthand for mocking any online identity claim the poster finds ridiculous3.

Origin & Background

Platform
Team Fortress 2 chat / Pastebin (viral spread on Reddit and 4chan)
Creator
Guuse
Date
2014

Guuse, a European Team Fortress 2 player, wrote the copypasta on March 17, 2014, and dumped it on Pastebin3. He built it as a spam bind for in-game chat, using it to derail arguments about gender identity politics during matches3. The tactic was simple: bind the text to a key and flood the channel whenever the topic came up.

Guuse publicly claimed authorship in December 2014 on his ETF2L recruitment page, describing himself as "the manufacturer of the 'i sexually identify as an attack helicopter' copypasta" and joking that it certified him as an "official ETF2L Meme Manufacturer"1.

How It Spread

The text left TF2 chat and hit Reddit in July 2014, first on /r/copypasta where it collected 371 upvotes, then on /r/sidehugs with another 18723. From there it moved to 4chan, where trackers logged 288 uses on /pol/ and 153 on /v/ by August 20153.

YouTube comment sections carried the heaviest load. By August 2015 the original text had been pasted over 600 times in comments, with roughly 300 more instances of altered versions swapping in different vehicles or identities3. The Urban Dictionary "helisexual" entry from May 2014 gave the format its own noun and pulled it further into general internet slang4.

The copypasta became a standard-issue tool for anyone wanting to mock earnest identity discourse online, and gets rebound and reposted every time gender identity threads flare up on English-language forums3.

How to Use This Meme

The template opens with the declaration "I sexually identify as an attack helicopter" and then mimics the structure of a sincere coming-out post: describing the identity, calling out doubters as bigots, and asking readers to check their privilege3. Common variants swap the helicopter for another vehicle or object, but the mock-earnest tone and social justice vocabulary are what make a version recognizable rather than the specific aircraft4.

Frequently Asked Questions

I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter

2014copypastaclassic

Published August 30, 2026

A 2014 copypasta written by Team Fortress 2 player Guuse in which a man declares he sexually identifies as an attack helicopter, parodying earnest Tumblr gender identity posts1. Guuse originally used it to spam in-game arguments before Reddit and 4chan turned it into one of the most reposted copypastas of the mid-2010s3.

copypasta memes gender discourse memes culture war memes 4chan memes mid 2010s memes

Overview

The copypasta is written in the voice of a young man who insists, with total sincerity, that he sexually identifies as an attack helicopter and that anyone who questions this is a bigot3. It borrows the cadence of first-person Tumblr identity posts, complete with pleas to check your privilege and lines about people being triggered by his rotors3. The joke works because the format sticks so closely to earnest coming-out language that the absurd payload lands as parody rather than argument.

Most of the versions floating around are near-verbatim reposts of Guuse's original text, with small tweaks swapping the aircraft for tanks, AC-130s, or other vehicles2. A short-form spinoff appeared on Urban Dictionary on May 18, 2014, where a user submitted a definition for "helisexual" that cited the copypasta directly4. The template later became shorthand for mocking any online identity claim the poster finds ridiculous3.

Origin & Background

Platform
Team Fortress 2 chat / Pastebin (viral spread on Reddit and 4chan)
Creator
Guuse
Date
2014

Guuse, a European Team Fortress 2 player, wrote the copypasta on March 17, 2014, and dumped it on Pastebin3. He built it as a spam bind for in-game chat, using it to derail arguments about gender identity politics during matches3. The tactic was simple: bind the text to a key and flood the channel whenever the topic came up.

Guuse publicly claimed authorship in December 2014 on his ETF2L recruitment page, describing himself as "the manufacturer of the 'i sexually identify as an attack helicopter' copypasta" and joking that it certified him as an "official ETF2L Meme Manufacturer"1.

How It Spread

The text left TF2 chat and hit Reddit in July 2014, first on /r/copypasta where it collected 371 upvotes, then on /r/sidehugs with another 18723. From there it moved to 4chan, where trackers logged 288 uses on /pol/ and 153 on /v/ by August 20153.

YouTube comment sections carried the heaviest load. By August 2015 the original text had been pasted over 600 times in comments, with roughly 300 more instances of altered versions swapping in different vehicles or identities3. The Urban Dictionary "helisexual" entry from May 2014 gave the format its own noun and pulled it further into general internet slang4.

The copypasta became a standard-issue tool for anyone wanting to mock earnest identity discourse online, and gets rebound and reposted every time gender identity threads flare up on English-language forums3.

How to Use This Meme

The template opens with the declaration "I sexually identify as an attack helicopter" and then mimics the structure of a sincere coming-out post: describing the identity, calling out doubters as bigots, and asking readers to check their privilege3. Common variants swap the helicopter for another vehicle or object, but the mock-earnest tone and social justice vocabulary are what make a version recognizable rather than the specific aircraft4.

Frequently Asked Questions