It and Babadook sitting in a tree, K-I-L-L-I-N-G. That’s the new running joke on these here Internets. It was inevitable. With the internet taking up the Babadook as a gay icon, it behooved us to find him a boyfriend more lasting than previous rumored boyfriend, the Bye Bye Man. The Internet is weird, okay? It’s better not to question this too much and just enjoy the madness. So best of luck to these two plucky upstarts on all their nightmarish endeavors that don’t involve terrorizing kids.
The new pairing — Babawise? Pennydook? — seems to have started with an innocuous question on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/rosetiico/status/907061505417347072
The answer? Not long at all, as this fan art by Kumi Ventura can attest to:
https://twitter.com/kumivenarts/status/907441951150030848
Others wholeheartedly agreed:
Pennywise the Dancing Clown and the Babadook are gay and in a committed relationship. #LoveWins
— mkb (@MatthewKBegbie) September 11, 2017
Pennywise and The Babadook are now a couple and they're slaying…literally. I love this community #lgbtq pic.twitter.com/DIyPpphVad
— Sadi (@piercedskies) September 12, 2017
https://twitter.com/serphantal/status/907855909929541638
Some took offense and demanded this entire running joke be scrubbed from the internet immediately:
https://twitter.com/starkrhodey/status/907262073284960257
Although maybe it wouldn’t be a bad idea to never again think about some of these tweets…
https://twitter.com/daddysboy_/status/907813351127781376
Yikes. Meanwhile, people settled on a name for the new power couple and moved on to other pressing matters:
pennywise and babadook official powercouple name:
— tom (@tom_harlock) September 12, 2017
The Babadook and Pennywise are the next big horror couple…
But who wears the better threads? 🤔 pic.twitter.com/QfSUMyQIzl
— Antifreeze (@AntiBunbun) September 12, 2017
Some even spun theories about the real reason why ‘It’ returned after 27 years: to feed not on children, but on wedding cake reluctantly baked by a homophobic bakery owner. SAVAGE.
https://twitter.com/spennettmctwaty/status/907503614889021441
But monsters often have unhappy endings, and so it seems to have gone for ‘It’, who has been dumped for this beefcake.
BREAKING: The Babadook just left Pennywise for the new Hellboy
— Alex Zalben (@azalben) September 13, 2017
Quelle Scandale! ‘It’ must be inconsolable…
https://twitter.com/ArmandTweets/status/902948290047598592