The earliest colorbar was in support of same-sex marriage, and simply consisted of a rainbow of six coloured squares, with the text "marriage is love". It spread as a [[meme]].<ref>[http://www.ainself.net/irony/get_medieval/fandomvocab.htm The Language of Fandom] (accessed 16 July 2013)</ref><ref>[https://encyclopediadramatica.se/Colorbar Encyclopedia Dramatica: Colorbar] (accessed 16 July 2013)</ref> The original post was [http://shared-boxers.livejournal.com/578528.html Show Your Support] by [[shared_boxers]] on 12 February 2004;<ref>[http://colorbar-crazy.livejournal.com/profile colorbar-crazy profile] (accessed 16 July 2013)</ref> it received 10,777 replies before livejournal shut off comments. | The earliest colorbar was in support of same-sex marriage, and simply consisted of a rainbow of six coloured squares, with the text "marriage is love". It spread as a [[meme]].<ref>[http://www.ainself.net/irony/get_medieval/fandomvocab.htm The Language of Fandom] (accessed 16 July 2013)</ref><ref>[https://encyclopediadramatica.se/Colorbar Encyclopedia Dramatica: Colorbar] (accessed 16 July 2013)</ref> The original post was [http://shared-boxers.livejournal.com/578528.html Show Your Support] by [[shared_boxers]] on 12 February 2004;<ref>[http://colorbar-crazy.livejournal.com/profile colorbar-crazy profile] (accessed 16 July 2013)</ref> it received 10,777 replies before livejournal shut off comments. |