Does Bruno Mars Is Gay?

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Does Bruno Mars Is Gay? refers to an engrish article that investigates whether or not pop singer Bruno Mars is gay.

Origin

In 2014, the article, written by Ndoro Alisan, appeared on brunomars.us under the title "The Rumor Come Out: Does Bruno Mars is Gay?"^[1] The first paragraph reads:

Bruno Mars is gay is the most discussed in the media in the few years ago. Even it has happened in 2012, but some of the public still curious about what is exactly happening and to be the reason there is a rumor comes out about his gay. At that time he became the massive social networking rumor. The public, especially his fans are shocked. He just came out with his bad rumor which is spread massively. This time is not about his music career, but his bad rumor. The rumor is out of standardize of hoax, according the last reported this singer revealed himself as homosexual. Do you still believe or not, this rumor is really much talked by people even in a person of his fans.

Spread

The article remained relatively unseen until May 17th, 2016, when the Game Grumps brought it up in an episode of their Let's Play of The Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time. ^[2] As of August 8th, 2016, the video has over 515,000 views. The same day, a screenshot of the opening paragraph appeared on Onsizzle.^[3] Soon after, the article appeared on Reddit in both the /r/titlegore^[4] and /r/engrish^[5] subreddits, where it received 190 points, 96% upvotes and 56 points, 87% upvotes respectively. On July 18th, 2016, a Facebook page^[7] dedicated to the article and memes surrounding it was created and accrued over 2,000 likes in less than a month. On August 4th, Game Grumps posted an animated video by ToriDomi of their conversation about the article (shown below),^[6] which gained almost 900,000 views in four days, leading to the height of the phrase's popularity.