[Disclaimer: Hey, everyone. Its electro lemon here. As the CBM's newest memeber I felt it was my duty to tell you; We are in ABSOLUTELY NO MEANS homophobic. As a matter of fact, the person at the helm of "Operation GayBear22" was indeed gay themselves. I, for one, love gay people, and would love to have a LAN party with Richard Simmons & Elton John if given the chance. This also was not our way of making fun of gay people. There's nothing to make fun of. We simply tried to make a male character as feminine as possible, as a joke, not as an insult to gay people. If we offended anyone, I sincerely apologize on behalf of the CBM. Also, please remove that stick from up your ass, and put it back on the tree you were born from. BAI!]

HAI EVERYBOOTY!

Okay, so super cerealness time. October 11th is National Coming Out Day. It's a day revered around the world as a day for gay people to confront their personal problems and issues and lay it all out on the line for the people that are not aware of the real situation.

So, in this way, National Coming Out day empowers those with deeply personal secrets to let them loose and help make the lives of those keeping these "dark secrets" a lot easier.


Well, I have a bit of a confession to make to you all...




I'm the Community Blog Mafia. All of us. To explain, bhive has the origin story of GayBear22.



bhive01


GayBear22: Origins

One day in the Community Emailer Chris Furniss sent a link to a Thinkin' Lincoln comic which mocked three major gaming blogs: Destructoid (Killotron), Kotaku (Sounds Japanese), and Joystick (did I say major?).





For some reason I (bhive01) felt I had to create this GayBear22 and leave a similar comment somewhere on Dtoid. As a short-term joke, Gaybear22 would be an inside joke that only those who paid attention to the community emailer would get (and some of you did). I then introduced Gaybear to the Community Blog Mafia (CBM) who took Gaybear22 and turned him into an unstoppable "gay machine." Gaybear stayed alive and strong and let Destructoid members know all about gay-ming in a totally flaming way.


DVDdesign wrote the following about GayBear's "actual upbringing and consequent gay lifestyle

GayBear22 was born in a coal mine, down a dark deep shaft that predicated his future lifestyle. Having grown up around burly miners and cowboys, you'd think GayBear would've been headed for a life of similar means. But when GayBear was 11, he went to New York City... Pizza and Deli, a local pizza shop on Main street. It was there that he had his first experience with the thing that would most captivate him in his later years. GayBear had his first kosher pickle. He was captivated by it. So much so that he took a full 3 days to eat the pickle and cried the whole time at the tragedy of eating such an iconic totem. From that moment forward, he hoarded every pickle he saw. On his 15th birthday, he went out with his friends to the local gas station/bar and noticed something scrawled on the wall of the men's room. "For a good time call Butch" with a phone number listed below. GayBear thought to himself, "If this isn't a good time here with my friends, talking about vagina and how awesome it is, what am I missing out on?" GayBear quickly scribbled the number down and went back to the party.

GayBear lost his virginity to Mandy at 19. It was unpleasant. Mandy describes it as, "He spent the 30 minutes afterward crying like a girl, screaming the whole time. I thought he'd hurt himself or something, cause he kept saying, "What's wrong with me?! What's wrong with me?!"




Mandy

Shortly after they broke up, GayBear began digging around his bedroom, trying to find a mixtape that wasn't about Mandy when he discovered the scribbled phone number for Butch. Thinking of how low his life had been at that point, and how much fun Butch seemed to offer, he dialed the number. GayBear met Butch that next day for a game of pool at the local gas station. 3 hours later they were in the mens room, where GayBear discovered what the hole in the mens room stall was meant for.

From that day forth, GayBear swore off of womyn (as he puts it, "Women have something to do with men, and I only want men in my life from here on out, so henceforth, they're all a bunch of womyn to me.") and has remained faithful to his fickle pickle's needs ever since.

DJDuffy and DVDdesign set about convincing bhive to run with this character and "make him real". Quick hasty posts were soon made to "gay him up" to a degree, and the results fell overboard. As a result, rules were established to keep the GayBear22 secret amongst the CBM and select Dtoid staffers. Yes, Dtoid has known who GayBear is this whole time.

CBM had established some pretty extensive rules or guidelines, none of which are important to you right now. We did try to go to great lengths and detail to get it just right.

A lot of effort went behind the spoof. We tried as hard as we could to keep GayBear's real identity a secret, but there were leaks from within the CBM. We are a little above naming names on revealing who the leak was, but you know who you are, and we're disappointed you did so, but at least the people you told were wise enough to keep quiet about the secret. We thank you guys for keeping a lid on it.



GayBear's original avatar was created by bhive.

GayBear's blog header was created by DVDdesign.

GayBear's side photograph was found by DJ Duffy.

GayBear's first post was by bhive.

GayBear's subsequent posts were made by: DJ Duffy, DVDdesign, BahamutZero, -D-, bhive01, Snaileb, and ElectroLemon.



Most of the GayBear photoshops were done by either DVDdesign or BahamutZero.







DVDdesign was the voice of GayBear22 on XBL.


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Well, that's about it from this drama queen. I hope you bois all had a great time picking on me. We apologize to any men or women who are of the alternative lifestyle who may have been offended by any GayBear22 posts. We hope you were able to see through the over-sexualized jokes and pictures for the silliness that was GayBear22.



Good Night and Godspeed...