Disney TV TikTok account hilariously misunderstands the queer ‘they were roommates’ trend

Disney TV’s official TikTok account has shared a set of “they were roommates” memes, and we think they might have missed the point.

The viral internet joke, which has been knocking around for almost 10 years, plays upon the historical mislabelling of same-sex and queer couples as being nothing more than friends.

One particularly popular tweet about the meme, by @calebsaysthings on what was then known as Twitter, reads: “”Love reading about men in history like ‘unfortunately he never found a wife, his elaborate scarf collection sold for $1.2m in 2011, he and his closest male friend, Chauncey, with whom he shared a bed, died within weeks of one another. They were known for their dinner parties.’”

The ‘roommates’ meme went viral on the short-clip-sharing platform

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