Costume ideas for gay men

Once upon a time, it was acceptable – nay, even celebrated – to dress up as a sexy cat, witch, nurse or werewolf (among other things) for Halloween. These costumes were recognisable, sufficiently scary and easy enough to recreate if you had to come up with a costume at the last minute. However, in today’s irony-pilled climate, dressing up as a vampire or your favourite spooky character is simply not enough. Instead, you must don the most niche, confusing, and obscure meme to win Halloween.

From Moo Deng, the Olympic pole vaulter who bumped the pole with his bulge, to people dressing up as Gandalf with “big naturals”, the chronically online have seemingly taken over Halloween, as Kate Lindy reported in her piece for The Atlantic.

Lindy believes that obscure meme costumes are draining the happiness from the holiday, writing, “Today, participating in Halloween can feel like creature in a competition you did not enter – one that prioritises social media attention over sincere, person-to-person interactions.” Dazed politica