# You're Mom Gay "You're Mom Gay" started as a mangled insult from a 2016 Pyrocynical CS:GO video, where fellow YouTuber NFKRZ fired back at a stranger with 'because your mom gay.' The deliberately broken grammar bounced through 4chan, Reddit and Tumblr the following year, becoming one of the defining shitpost comebacks of the late 2010s. ## Origin The earliest documented use shows up in Pyrocynical's YouTube video "Rush B / CS:GO," uploaded June 16, 2016, where fellow YouTuber NFKRZ answers another Counter-Strike player with "because your mom gay" at the 5:53 timestamp[1]. The line sat dormant for over a year before the phrasing resurfaced as a shitpost template on anonymous boards and image forums. - **Platform:** YouTube (origin) / 4chan, Reddit, Tumblr (viral spread) - **Creator:** NFKRZ (as spoken in Pyrocynical's CS:GO video) - **Date:** 2016 ## Overview The joke is the broken grammar itself. "Your" gets swapped for "you're" or "ur," articles vanish, and the whole construction reads like a kid typing with one thumb[2]. The gag works as a universal non-sequitur comeback, dropped into unrelated arguments as a conversation-ender rather than a real insult[3]. Image macros often paste the phrase onto scrolls, speech bubbles or edited game cutscenes, with Cuphead and Kung Fu Panda becoming early format staples[2]. Follow-up retorts like "no u" and "ur dad lesbian" turned the exchange into its own mini-genre, where each reply tried to out-dumb the last[4]. A longer variant, "your mom suck me good and hard thru my jorts," split off from Tumblr in late 2017 and ran parallel to the shorter form[5]. ## How to Use To run the format, reply to any mundane statement or argument with a mangled version of "your mom gay." Common choices include "you're mom gay," "ur mom gay lol," or the extended jorts variant[5]. Image macros typically paste the phrase into unrelated scenes, with cartoon scrolls, video game subtitles and chat screenshots the usual carriers[2]. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is You're Mom Gay? A satirical insult built around deliberately broken grammar, used as a shitpost comeback in online arguments[2]. ### Where did You're Mom Gay come from? NFKRZ said "because your mom gay" in Pyrocynical's June 16, 2016 CS:GO video[1], and the line resurfaced as a text shitpost on 4chan and Reddit in 2017[6]. ### What does You're Mom Gay mean? It is a mock insult claiming someone's mother is gay, written with intentionally wrong grammar for comedic effect rather than real offense[6]. ### How do you use You're Mom Gay? Drop it as a non-sequitur reply to any statement, often paired with image edits like the Cuphead or Kung Fu Panda macros that pasted the phrase into unrelated scenes[2]. ### Is You're Mom Gay still popular? It peaked in 2017 and 2018 after PewDiePie's meme review[3] and lives on as a classic shitpost reference and recurring reply format. ## References 1. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKtW3Kb6Leo]() 2. [https://www.reddit.com/r/MemeEconomy/comments/765adw/new_format_is_it_invest_worthy/]() 3. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/youre-mom-gay]() 4. [https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=ur%20dad%20lesbian]() 5. [http://sneeringimperialist.tumblr.com/post/166551048036/funny-juxtaposition-sneeringimperialist]() 6. [https://archive.nyafuu.org/bant/thread/1896135/]() 7. [https://shitty-fallout-art.tumblr.com/post/172526173601/doctor-klein-i-was-expecting-a-battle-of-wits]() 8. [https://www.reddit.com/r/dankmemes/comments/8kgwen/oof_ouch_owie/]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/youre-mom-gay Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library