Sufjan Stevens Betrayal of Christ

Text on the meme

SUFJAN STEVENS: I was kissed, I was pegged, by my very best friend LYRIC ANNOTATION: Sufjan is referencing the Betrayal of Christ;

What it means

A screenshot of a tweet quoting Sufjan Stevens’s lyrics: “I was kissed, I was pegged, by my very best friend,” followed by a deadpan lyric annotation claiming he is referencing the Betrayal of Christ. The joke comes from treating an explicitly sexual lyric as a biblical allusion to Judas betraying Jesus with a kiss, creating an absurdly serious interpretation. EN: A screenshot of a tweet quoting Sufjan Stevens’s lyrics: “I was kissed, I was pegged, by my very best friend,” followed by a deadpan lyric annotation claiming he is referencing the Betrayal of Christ. The joke comes from treating an explicitly sexual lyric as a biblical allusion to Judas betraying Jesus with a kiss, creating an absurdly serious interpretation.

Who

Sufjan Stevens (Суфьян Стивенс)Judas Iscariot (Иуда Искариот)Jesus Christ (Иисус Христос)

Objects

tweet screenshot / скриншот твита dark interface / тёмный интерфейс white text / белый текст blue hyperlink text / синий текст ссылки profile avatar / аватар профиля ellipsis menu / меню с многоточием timestamp / отметка времени retweet count / число ретвитов like count / число лайков lyric annotation / аннотация текста песни biblical reference / библейская отсылка