gay baby jail

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Coined by chat users in a live stream by content creator SimpleFlips on the video streaming service Twitch in late July 2017, from an earlier sense meaning a softlock, ostensibly first attested on Tumblr since as early as 21 January 2013.

noun gay baby jails

  1. Internet, countable, humorous, uncountable An imprisonment or containment. tumblr user Bolto posted a picture of a bird (her bird?) in a cardboard box with a little jail window with little jail bars. the box was labeled "Gay Baby Jail" and next to the window was a drawn on speech bubble with the caption "i’m a bad baby".

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@misc{gay_baby_jail_2026,
  title = {gay baby jail},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/gay%20baby%20jail},
  urldate = {2026-11-07}
}