Two Bros Chillin' In A Hot Tub

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Two bros, chilling in a hot tub, five feet apart cause they're not gay. Two young men, apparently close acquaintances, enjoy their time in a hot water basin. They are sitting with a separation of about five feet, which is a telltale sign that they are both heterosexuals. Two male h--- sapiens who recognize each other as members of their in-group bathe in a vessel filled with hot water, but for the purpose of muscle relaxation rather than personal hygiene. They are not interested in same-sex courtship, which can be inferred from the heteronormative practices they exhibit, as they have created a space in between them of five counts of an outdated measure of length, which is still widely used in North America, amounting to approximately 1.5 meters of separation under the metric system. Two fair men lie in water, warm and slow, As brothers, they are joined heart to heart; But Cupid hath not struck them with his bow; Lest that be thought, they sit five feet apart.

never have been the bros weren't actually there?

fluidpuck Two fair men lie in water warm and slow, As brothers are they joined heart to heart, But Cupid hath not struck them with his bow Lest that be thought, they sit five feet apart. Source: fluidpuck 125,733 notes

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Two Bros Chillin In A Hot Tub refers to a Vine video where Anthony Padilla sings a song about two other men relaxing in a jacuzzi, inferring that they are far apart from each other so they don't appear homosexual. The Vine became popular on Tumblr as an example of heterosexual males being lightly mocked.

Origin

The video was created by Vine user and former Smosh member Anthony Padilla. The original Vine^[1] was posted on May 30th, 2016 with the caption "what's the opposite of gaydar?" (shown below). There, it gained 74,000 likes, 23,000 revines, and 42.8 million loops.

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The Vine was quickly celebrated by the LGBTQ community on Tumblr. There, the Vine gained over 494,000 notes before Vine was shut down.^[2] While popular there, the Vine didn't begin coming a proper meme on the site until June of 2017, when it was adopted as a major meme for Pride Month. On June 9th, Tumblr user bumble-bee-tea^[3] published a Bad Acronym featuring the letters LGBT standing for "Lesbian, Gay, Babadook, Two bros chillin in a hot tub five feet apart cuz they're not gay," gaining over 46,000 notes (shown below, left). User wrecknian^[4] posted a similar joke and gained over 109,000 notes (shown below, right).

LGBT lesbian gay babadook two bros chillin' in a hot tub five feet apart cause they're not gay #the real meaning of LGBT #babadook #thebabadook #gay #bro #meme #funny #babussy #mypost 46,640 notes

LGBTBCIAHTFFACTNG wrecknician: Lesbian, gay, bisexual, two bros chillin' in a hot tub five feet apart 'cause they're not gay wrecknician #Igbt acronyms #Igbtq memes #two bros chillin in the hot tub five feet apart cause they're not gay

Another popular use of the meme is for fandoms to apply the quote to male characters in potentially homosexual situations. For example, user Bobahunk^[5] uploaded the quote with a picture of two characters from Voltron and gained over 12,000 notes (shown below, left). Another post by resistancefighterjaal^[6] used the quote in reference to Mass Effect: Andromeda characters and gained over 1,000 notes (shown below, right).