My Daughter Loves Him, I Think He Looks a Little Gay, But Whatever Makes My Prin...

Q: What is My Daughter Loves Him, I Think He Looks a Little Gay, But Whatever Makes My Prin...?

An exploitable image macro and catchphrase built around a May 2020 Facebook post by the fake 'Noel Wright' profile, in which a conservative dad reluctantly accepts his daughter's attraction to a Photoshopped pilot photo of BTS/NCT's Jaehyun.

Q: Where did My Daughter Loves Him, I Think He Looks a Little Gay, But Whatever Makes My Prin... come from?

It started on May 6, 2020, from a fake Facebook profile under the name Noel Wright, which paired an edited photo of BTS/NCT's Jaehyun with the dad caption; the Jaehyun source image came from a 2018 Taiwanese Dcard post.

Q: What does My Daughter Loves Him, I Think He Looks a Little Gay, But Whatever Makes My Prin... mean?

The joke mocks a conservative father who finds his daughter's crush visually off-putting, usually for looking effeminate or alt, but accepts him anyway because the 'princess' is happy.

Q: How do you use My Daughter Loves Him, I Think He Looks a Little Gay, But Whatever Makes My Prin...?

Users typically keep the Noel Wright screenshot and replace the Jaehyun pilot photo with an image of a soft-looking celebrity or alt internet figure, such as Bladee, Yung Lean or Robert Pattinson.

Q: Is My Daughter Loves Him, I Think He Looks a Little Gay, But Whatever Makes My Prin... still popular?

Its biggest run came between May and November 2020, especially after @punk_irl's August 31 Instagram edit and Wilbur Soot's October 31 tweet that collected about 172,000 likes.

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Published October 27, 2026

On May 6, 2020, a fake Facebook profile named Noel Wright shared a photo of BTS/NCT singer Jaehyun edited into airplane pilot clothes, with a caption from a doting-but-skeptical conservative dad about his daughter's crush. By late August 2020, Instagram user @punk_irl had turned the screenshot into an exploitable template, and remix editors started inserting Robert Pattinson, Bladee and Yung Lean into the father's suspicious gaze.

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Overview

Posts in the format take the Noel Wright screenshot and replace the Jaehyun pilot picture with an image of whoever the 'daughter' is supposedly dating1. Humor rides on the father's confused but permissive attitude: he reads the man as slightly suspect, often for looking effeminate or alt, and concedes anyway because his 'princess' is happy5. The caption text also travels on its own as copypasta, used without the image to tease someone's crush5.

Favorite subjects of the template included soft-looking male celebrities and online figures whose appearance would clash with conservative-dad aesthetics. Bladee, Yung Lean, Robert Pattinson and the 'doomer e-boy' character all cycled through the format during September and November 20205. Edits where a user inserted their own face, as @punk_irl did in the viral August 31 post, also became common4.

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Origin & Background

Platform

Facebook (origin) / Instagram (viral spread)

Creator

Unknown

Date

2020

On May 6, 2020, a fake Facebook profile under the name Noel Wright posted the original image, which combined a Photoshopped shot of BTS/NCT singer Jaehyun dressed as an airplane pilot with the caption that gave the meme its name1. The underlying Jaehyun photograph came from a Taiwanese Dcard post dating to October 20182. By August 2021, the Facebook post sat at roughly 5,000 reactions and 3,300 shares5.

The Noel Wright account itself belonged to a small network of fake conservative-dad personas, and its profile picture was lifted from a March 2019 Tuscaloosa News article about a Florida man named Mark Marlow who said he was ejected from a lounge for wearing a MAGA hat6. That same photograph had earlier been reused for a fake Instagram identity called Henry Davis5.

How It Spread

Three minutes after the Facebook post went up, the same account's operator screenshotted it and reposted it to Instagram, where it started gathering attention5. Twitter saw the catchphrase as early as May 9, 2020, with user @marymomaden among the earliest to recycle the dad voice3.

Template reuse took off at the end of August 2020. On August 31, Instagram user @punk_irl published a now-deleted post with themself edited into the pilot slot, which routed many of their followers back to the original Facebook post and gave it another round of comments and reactions4. From there, remixes moved to Twitter and iFunny during the first week of September 20205.

On October 31, 2020, YouTuber and Twitch streamer Wilbur Soot shared one of the edits using his own face, which collected around 172,000 likes in the following week5. Through the autumn, the format cycled through Bladee, Yung Lean, Robert Pattinson and the 'doomer e-boy' as its most-reused subjects5.

Timeline

2020-05-06

Fake Facebook profile 'Noel Wright' posts the original image, a Photoshopped shot of BTS/NCT's Jaehyun as a pilot with the now-famous dad caption.

2020-05-09

Twitter user @marymomaden recycles the catchphrase in an early standalone use.

2020-08-31

Instagram user @punk_irl publishes a now-deleted edit with themself in the pilot slot, driving renewed attention to the original Facebook post.

2020-09

Remixes move onto Twitter and iFunny in the first week of September.

2020-10-31

Wilbur Soot shares a version using his own face on Twitter, collecting roughly 172,000 likes within a week.

How to Use This Meme

To make a version, people typically keep the Noel Wright screenshot intact and paste a new picture over the Jaehyun pilot photo, choosing a target whose appearance would read as suspect to a stereotypical conservative father. The joke lands when the target is clearly beloved by the 'daughter' demographic (soft-featured celebrities, e-boys, K-pop idols) while being just alt enough for the dad to squint at. The caption can also be posted alone as copypasta to roast a friend's crush.