I Might Go Homeless?

Submission 8,002

About

I Might Go Homeless?, also known as Supporting X in a Y Family, refers to a series of exploitable memes based on an opening panel of a webcomic drawn by a young person supporting Palestine in a family who supports Israel in the 2023-2024 Israel-Hamas Conflict. In June 2024, after the author of the comic announced that she briefly became homeless, their thread was parodied online, with users editing the opening panel and parodying the caption by using it as a phrasal template.

Origin

On December 17th, 2023, X^[1] / Twitter user @Donut_tweetz made a thread in which she told a story in the format of a comic of her conflict with her mother over @Donut_tweetz's pro-Palestinian stance in the Gaza-Israel conflict. The thread opened with a panel depicting @Donut_tweetz herself with the words "I might go homeless..?" hovering above her head. The first post in the thread garnered over 38,000 reposts and 75,000 likes in six months.

On June 15th, 2024, the author of the comic quoted the original comic post, writing that they became homeless (post shown below).^[2] On June 16th, @Donut_tweetz posted an update^[3] that she rented out a motel room where the donations would allow her to stay until she starts college later in 2024.

Spread

On December 13th, 2023, X^[4] user @SkibidiJumer made a Skibidi Toilet parody of @Donut_tweetz's thread, redrawing the first four image from it and parodying the caption from the opening post. The first post in the parody thread (shown below, left) gained over 1,000 reposts and 2,100 likes in six months.

On June 15th, 2024, soon after @Donut_tweetz wrote that she became homeless, @SkibidiJumer, too, wrote the same, quoting their December post. The post (shown below, right) garnered over 640 reposts and 3,600 likes on X^[5] in three days.

On June 16th, X^[6] user @SubspacePosting posted a screenshot of that post, commenting, "society is doomed." The post received over 3,000 reposts and 50,000 likes in two days.

The post was followed by more users parodying @Donut_tweetz's thread, which often involved them editing the opening panel, parodying its caption, and later quoting the post with an update of them going homeless.

For example, on June 16th, 2024, X^[7]^[8] user @LoDthesecond posted a Neon Genesis Evangelion version of the meme, with the first post gaining over 50 reposts and 640 likes in two days (shown below, left and right).

More versions of the meme went viral on X / Twitter in the following days, with multiple users criticizing^[9] the jokes as insensitive.