About
Femboy Hooters refers to a series of memes exploring the concept of establishing a Hooters restaurant staffed by scantily-clad feminine crossdressing males.
Origin
On March 11, 2020 Twitter user @Drommels_YT tweeted “we need a femboy hooters” (tweet shown below), The tweet received over 1,200 retweets and 4,900 likes in three months.
Spread
On the same day, Redditor Grrundee posted a screenshot of the tweet to the /r/gay_irl subreddit, gaining over 1400 upvotes in three months. On March 17th, Instagram user femboy_factory posted a photoshop mockup of Femboy Hooters restaurant (shown below), with the post gaining over 740 likes and gaining viral spread online in the following weeks.
On March 19, 2020, Instagram user andrew_lastname posted a meme combining the intro to Duke Nukem Forever with the caption “Me, a regular at Femboy Hooters” (reupload shown below). The post received over 5,300 likes in three months.
On March 27, 2020, the r/femboyhooters subreddit was created, with more memes exploring the concept being posted on Reddit, Twitter, iFunny, TikTok and other platforms in the following months. For example, on May 21st, TikTok user fourapricots posted a Thanos meme which received over 68,400 views and 16,500 likes in one month. On May 31st, Twitter artist @ms_pigtails posted an artwork that received over 3,500 retweets and 19,100 likes in one week, prompting a surge in popularity of the meme in the following days.
On May 20th, 2020, Change.org user Cassidy Corbin created a petition for opening a Femboy Hooters restaraunt, with the petition gaining over 1,500 signatures as of June 5th, 2020.
Various Examples
Search Interest
Know Your Meme Store
External References
Source: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/femboy-hooters