This is how the hot dad from ‘Inside Out’ sparked a new wave of Gay Twitter™ discourse
Inside Out films is a certifiable DILF, as established by the past ten-plus years of internet thirst tweets. But what is it about the computer-generated daddy (voiced by Kyle MacLachlan) that makes him so danged attractive?
And what would he look like IRL?OK, so we don’t have a concrete answer. Subscribe to our newsletter for a refreshing cocktail (or mocktail) of LGBTQ+ entertainment and pop culture, served up with a side of eye-candy.But the internet — read: Gay Twitter X — does have some loud opinions, and they voiced them en masse over the weekend after one user shared a photo of his resemblance to the animated hunk.I did something pic.twitter.com/QlnHjv0VXPWith nothing but good intentions, Brazilian-based gay Tomás (who tweets under @tr0mpa) posted a mustachioed pic in a gray tee purposefully posed like Riley’s father. “I did something,” he captioned the post, simply.
It turned out to be a bit of an understatement after it went massively viral, garnering 5.5 million views and counting.Perhaps it was boredom over a holiday weekend or an affinity for Inside Out 2, whose stellar box-office performance made it the highest-grossing film of the year so far and the fifth-biggest animated film ever.
Whatever it was, Tomás’ post prompted the gays of social media to simultaneously thirst openly, loudly disagree, and ponder the Inside Out dad’s space in pop culture.
