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Down Boy
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| Synonyms: | Down Boy |
| Date Started: | 2025 |
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"Down Boy" is a redraw art meme based on a comic panel. The meme usually features two members of a ship, one of them saying "Down Boy!", and the other barking.
Examples
Arcane
Castlevania
- art by azeitchenko, featuring Trevor Belmont/Sypha Belnades
Conclave
- DOWN BOY! meme but make it benitesco by SteinWanda, featuring vincent benitez/goffredo tedesco
Dungeon Meshi
Homestruck
- art by tin-bt, on dirkjake.
- dirkjake's your art trends by docileroamer, redrawing jadevris.
Project Sekai
- down boy trend with ichishiho, Archived version by ruxxifystars, redrawing IchiShiho.
Stardew Valley
- art by asophiamills, drawing an OC with Sam.
- art by qube-aga, redrawing Farmer/Mr. Qi
- art by alekk2018, redrawing Farmer/Sebastian
Sonic the Hedgehog
- art by crowcage, redrawing Sonic x Shadow
- Down boy!! but make it metamy by inezisa, redraw featuring metamy.
Team Fortress 2
- art by casserpillarr.
Controversey
[summary by Aliandry on Discord[1]]
Art meme where one part of a pairing yells “down boy” to their counterpart who usually barks. The person was saying it was racist because the partner who barked was of a darker skin colour/brown. They had a screengrab of about 4 of the memes that all featured this dynamic.People were being harassed
The artists had to apologise after the harassment
The harassment continued
[Aliandry]
It seems that accusations and finger pointing stops once the doggy/puppy dynamic is explained, sometimes if the perceived ethnicities of the characters are also explained in depth (Draculaura being Asian, for example, her counterpart being a literal werewolf)
It seems many people aren’t aware the point is the puppy dynamic
- Children today! Can we spot the pattern? deleted tweet by khrunchie
- WRAP THIS TREND THE FUCK UP RIGHT NOW tweet by bloupriint
- “down boy/girl!” trend was a mistake tweet by mOoVtUiLvATION
References
- ^ Discord message, quoted with permission