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My Subs Have Unionized

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Published October 19, 2026

On April 29, 2019, Reddit user dennismiller2024 posted a story to /r/relationship_advice claiming his five submissive partners had delivered a formal list of demands, essentially forming a union. The thread sat quietly for three months until a July 26 Twitter screenshot sent it viral, and users then turned the title into a snowclone where "subs" was replaced with biblical figures, Neon Genesis Evangelion characters and 2020 Democratic primary candidates.

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Overview

The joke runs on two levels. The source Reddit thread reads like earnest advice-seeking, complete with the subreddit's standard age-and-gender tag format of "(25M) subs (23F, 26F, 22M, 28M, 28M)," and then pivots to five BDSM submissives collectively bargaining with their dom over policies like permitting kissing between subs and only enforcing demands after 8 pm1. Know Your Meme classifies the original thread as a trollpost rather than a real relationship question4.

On Twitter, the title alone was the payoff, and users turned it into a snowclone by keeping the "(25M) [NOUN] (ages/genders) have unionized" scaffolding and replacing the noun with whatever they wanted2. Biblical figures, anime cast lists and 2020 Democratic candidates all got the same treatment, with the age-and-gender tags often adjusted for comic effect58.

Origin & Background

Platform
Reddit (source post) / Twitter (viral spread)
Creator
dennismiller2024
Date
2019

On April 29, 2019, Reddit user dennismiller2024 posted a thread titled "My (25M) subs (23F, 26F, 22M, 28M, 28M) have unionized" to /r/relationship_advice1. The body described a polyamorous dominant-submissive arrangement with five partners who had approached the poster together with a written list of demands, including "Allow kissing between subs" and "Demands are only to be followed after 8 pm"1.

The original thread was later deleted, though the full text is preserved via an archive and via a /r/copypasta repost3. Know Your Meme documents the post as a troll submission rather than a sincere relationship question, which fits the deadpan bureaucratic register of the demand list4.

How It Spread

Timeline

2019-04-29

Reddit user dennismiller2024 posts the original thread titled "My (25M) subs (23F, 26F, 22M, 28M, 28M) have unionized" to /r/relationship_advice.

2019-07-26

Twitter user @welshsnarker posts a screenshot of the Reddit title, driving the thread viral with 16,000+ retweets and 67,000+ likes.

2019-07-26

The title is crossposted to /r/COMPLETEANARCHY and the full copypasta appears on /r/copypasta the same day.

2019-07-29

@avantredguard posts a biblical snowclone version that gains 5,400+ retweets and 26,000+ likes.

2019-07-30

@ldrinkh20 posts a Neon Genesis Evangelion snowclone version with 5,600+ retweets and 18,000+ likes.

2019-07-31

@notjessietwit and others aim the snowclone at the 2020 Democratic Presidential Primary candidate field.

How to Use This Meme

A typical post keeps the parenthetical age-and-gender tag format of the Reddit title and replaces "subs" with a group of named characters, historical figures or public personalities. Writers often tweak the ages and genders to match the referenced source material, and the humor comes from mapping a wildly unrelated group onto the structure of a BDSM labor dispute.

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