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Drag Race UK star defends iconic The Substance Halloween look
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Drag Race UK star defends iconic The Substance Halloween look

Halloween, aka Gay Christmas, is finally upon us – but among the jockstraps and wrestling singlets, Drag racing in the UK The Sminty Drop star was forced to clap back at fans criticizing his “c*nty” rendition of Monstro Elisasue from The bottom.

There is a there’s a lot going on thereso let’s unpack.

For starters, Halloween has been overwhelmed in recent years by a meme format that looks like this: "I hate Gay Halloween, what do you mean, you’re EMPTY," with WHITE replaced by increasingly obscure costumes, pop culture references and celebrity moments.

The other key part of the story is the recent release of instant body horror smash The bottomin which Demi Moore plays an aging, fading celebrity who uses a mysterious substance to transform into a younger version of herself (played by Margaret Qualley). At the film’s climax, the couple merge into a grotesque fusion called “Monstro Elisasue”.

Putting the two parts of the puzzle together above is Drag racing in the UKSmintyDrop. The diva, who placed 9th in the spin-off’s fourth season, took to X on October 27 to post several photos of herself, a yassified version of the The bottom character, writing: “I hate gay Halloween costumes because you want to say you’re c*nty Monstro Elisasue.”

For the avoidance of doubt, she ate; but several fans took issue with Halloween’s instant gay classic, insinuating that Sminty missed the point of the film.

“I just let out the deepest sigh ever…” wrote one account, with another adding: “I love how making this county completely and deliberately misses the point of the movie, THIS is camp lol.”

Sminty has since clapped back at those who criticized the costume, reminding everyone that it really wasn’t that deep.

“‘I completely missed the point of the movie :///’ IT WAS A LITTLE LAUGH DANIELLE HER TONGUE IN CHEEK,” she wrote, referring to the one and only Gemma Collins, before ‘add: “Like my god, what happened to FUN.”

THE Drag racing in the UK The star continued her clapbacks in a series of follow-up messages – and the ultimate trump card.

“I can’t believe people are mad at me for turning Monstro Elisasue into a villain like HOW did we end up being so miserable,” she wrote in one.

“People don’t understand what a camp is… OPEN THE SCHOOLS!!! she added before referencing a popular Internet meme: “The people who are angry about this are the same people who are 17 and afraid of Sabrina Carpenter, by the way.”

Then came the trump card; the revelation that Demi Moore herself had liked Sminty’s Instagram post about the look.

Other “Gay Halloween” looks are nowhere near as iconic — but still incredible.

There was the “Blue Pikmin saying ‘I’m f*g'” meme, Chappell Roan and a passenger seat accidentally caused Shaggy to go from Scooby-Doo and many more. We’ve rounded up 19 of the best here.

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