By David Futrelle
By now you’ve all seen endless variations on the Chad vs. Virgin meme, and probably a few featuring Stacy and Becky as well. Most of them, like the originals, tend to be more depressing than funny, reflecting the spread of toxic incel ideology into the “normie” world.
But yesterday on Twitter I ran across some fanart that flipped the script on both of these memes and ended up actually sort of heartwarming.
Happy endings for everyone — though not quite as the makers of the original memes imagined. It’s as if the wannabe swinging couples in 1969’s Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice had decided to skip the Bob & Alice & Ted & Carol stage and try a little Bob & Ted & Carol & Alice instead.
Several hours later another Pride-ified Chad & Virgin & Stacy & Becky meme popped up on my Twtter, combining Chad and Virgin from the original meme with a reworked Stacy and Becky from @Hatie_Kunt.
(This is the pic I turned into my graphic above, BTW.)
As it turns out, people have been shipping each of these couples for awhile now. After a little poking around I found an entire subreddit (albeit a teensy weensy one with only eight posts total) devoted to celebrating the blossoming friendship and/or love of Chad and Virgin, who may not actually be a virgin any more. (Click on the images to see sources.)
This meme-ist imagined the two as happy parents:
Outside the subreddit, which isn’t exactly the most active place on Reddit, I found even more. Here’s another one designed to tug at the heartstrings:
But my favorite has to be this one with the pregnant Chad:
I didn’t find as many romantic Becky and Stacy memes. But here’s one memorable one I ran across from @allygnnn on Twitter.
And here’s yet another variation, featuring a girl Chad and a sort of Beckified Virgin that I found on Reddit:
I also found an older meme featuring a remarkably similar couple, based on a bit of Tumblr art by someone called Beekkake, contrasting her slightly nerdy self with Stacy-esque “other girls.”
Naturally, other Tumblrites wondered: But what if they were to kiss? And Creamsicle was born, the name a nod to the contrast between the orange skin of the “other girl” and the pale white of “me.”
The art ranges from the cute:
… to the (somewhat) raunchy.
You can find countless more on Fuck Yeah Creamsicle.
And while Creamsicle is kind of an old meme now, one artist brought the two back for this little masterpiece:
Happy Pride Month, everyone!
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This is my new favorite thing. I ship so hard.
Stacy walking her lovely girlfriend Becky to the library to study and pick up books. And wonderful chad respecting his boyfriend boundaries while going to the movies.
Here’s to love in all its beautiful permutations. Happy Pride, one and all <3
I love everything about this!
Maybe this is why Chad pursued all those Stacies and never settled down with one. Maybe this is why the Virgin was always moping.
Glad to see them both happy. 🙂
Ok, now this should be the end to the incel saga. Is it fuck though.
I thought that Stacy and Becky were familiar. Did the manosphere rip them from that cartoon that appeared to suggest reading turns Stacy into Becky?
The pride versions are indeed heartwarming, in any case.
Sarity
Yes, her breast and booty shrink while her waist stays the same because of reading. No one said incels were smart lol.
@Sarity
Knew I recognized them from somewhere. I still wonder how hard incels’ heads would explode if I pointed out that my male gaze, for one, finds the righthand side of that progression a lot hotter than the left. And not just because brains are hot and people carrying books at least suggests the possibility they might have brains.
This is rather sweet. Makes a nice change of pace.
@Rabid Rabbit – middle one.
Third and fourth, for me. But the real “blow their minds” epiphany would be if they realized that this seemingly magical transformation is actually because the woman dresses for comfort and speed to go to study hall, but puts on high heels, a miniskirt, a padded bra, and a blonde wig, plus makeup and lots of other laboring on her appearance, to go out clubbing or whatever. The women you see in study hall look systematically different from the ones you see at the bar because, by and large, people chose to dress and make themselves up differently for different contexts, not because becoming into books magically shape-shifts you.
I want one where Chad and Stacey are a couple, but Stacey is actually the drag persona of The Virgin.
Why does the middle one look like she’s never seen a book before?
If memory serve well, the stripe was made as a piece of specific fetish porn (something about transformation). It was detourned by misogynes just like Pepe the frog was by racists.
So glad to see that everyone found love.
The Chad/Virgin pairing is way cuter than anything has the right to be.
Also, the whole meme became funny to me when I discovered the original version of it is a ridiculous parody – the fact that Chad’s head is shaped like a map of the actual Republic of Chad should tip you off.
I’m a bit creeped out by seeing “white” listed as a positive, even if it’s in comparison to “orange”.
I must admit to finding old-cartoon-Chad’s physical deformities a bit disturbing (he looks as if his torso is facing in the opposite direction from his pelvis. Did a supernatural intervention rip him in half at the waist and stick the two halves back together again the wrong way round?) but apart from that these are such wholly heartwarming, happy ships!
(that yellow triangle is Chad’s hair, tho? I honestly thought it was meant to be a hat. Maybe now he’s happy in love he’ll let it relax a little)
Those new cartoons are very sweet 🙂
@Moggie
I’m so glad it wasn’t just me who felt this way.
@opposablethumbs
Tbh, chad always reminded me of John Bravo. Which is funny because John Bravo lived with his mother and all the women he came into contact with would turn him down.
Slightly (well ok, completely) O/T, but I hope David doesn’t mind if I put this here.
https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/help-a-discriminated-ethical-vegan/
Executive summary: This is to fund a legal case. The issue is about a chap who worked for an animal rights charity. He then found out the company pension fund invested in areas that involved testing on animals. He raised this as a concern and, long story short, got penalised for it.
There are two issues at stake.
First, is ethical veganism a protected belief under our Equality Act?
Second, considerations around what we call PIDA. That’s our Public Interest Disclosure Act. Basically, it protects whistleblowers, when certain conditions are met; and we’d like to set a precedent that these sorts of disclosures would meet the criteria.
If you can chip in; or just spread awareness; it would very much be appreciated. Ta.
So… is Tumblr the best place on the internetz or what?
(I’ve never paid much attention to it, but maybe I should?)
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Also, I remember a reverse version of this one made in a drag queen/king group in Facebook, in which Becky finds a Rupaul sign and turns into Stacy xD
Whoa! Appaently the original image of the Stacy being Beckyfied was a commission for a deviantart dude, based on the opposite formula of “bimbification” for fetishists
… and there seem to be some weirder stuff going on, too
I see it as she’s checking out the blurb on the back of the book to see if its of interest to her while standing in the classic “I’m not putting my glasses on for four lines” pose.
I *heart* this so, so much. So much. Like, wear it on a t-shirt much.
@Luzbelitx: Yeah, I was going to say – there are a million of these out there. The transformation featured in the extremely good pride works seems to have chiefly got attention because some misguided Christian groups found it and thought it was about the Bible turning women away from a life of vice and sin – or something. For all I know, that could have just been a further layer of irony.