Paid to Come Out Anyway

I came out to my family as LGBT a couple years ago, they were incredibly ashamed of me and told me not to tell anyone. I told them I won’t come out if they paid me $500. And then came out anyways.

A bearded man appears in a dark, dramatic portrait behind a Reddit-style LGBT post. The joke is that the speaker sarcastically promised not to come out if paid $500, then came out anyway, turning the family’s shame and attempted secrecy into a punchline. It is used as a reaction to situations where someone breaks a promise or does the opposite of what was expected. EN: A bearded man appears in a dark, dramatic portrait behind a Reddit-style LGBT post. The joke is that the speaker sarcastically promised not to come out if paid $500, then came out anyway, turning the family’s shame and attempted secrecy into a punchline. It is used as a reaction to situations where someone breaks a promise or does the opposite of what was expected.

• @afrosidemoon / 44545 2021-11-22