gay baby jail

English

Etymology

First sense coined by chat users in a live stream by content creator SimpleFlips on the video streaming service Twitch in late July 2017, from the second sense, ostensibly first attested on Tumblr since as early as 21 January 2013.[1][2]

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Noun

gay baby jail (countable and uncountable, plural gay baby jails)

  1. (slang, video games) A softlock. (Can we verify(+) this sense?)
  2. (chiefly Internet slang, humorous) An imprisonment or containment.
    • 2013 March 16, saccharinescorpion, Tumblr‎[3]:
      tumblr user Bolto posted a picture of a bird (her bird?) in a cardboard box with a little jail window with little jail bars. the box was labeled "Gay Baby Jail" and next to the window was a drawn on speech bubble with the caption "i’m a bad baby".
    • 2018 October 30, Raicatty, Twitter‎[4]:
      Bad kittens go to gay baby jail until they stop trying to eat their siblings!
    • 2020 December 24, rosevolii, Twitter‎[5]:
      Wakko's in gay baby jail for stealing Santa's cookies 😔
    • 2023 October 18, hotmilfjimin, Twitter‎[6]:
      NOOOOO! they got him in gay baby jail! 😔

References

  1. ^ “diary of a cyberbully, gay baby jail”, in Tumblr‎[1], 30 September 2013, retrieved 20 April 2025
  2. ^ “Classic tumblr memes”, in Tumblr‎[2], 23 November 2015, retrieved 18 October 2023
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