The Brief: A clip of A’Keria Chanel Davenport on Ru Paul's Drag Race singing "where is the body" is the punchline in a popular Twitter meme.
DEEP DIVE
A clip from season 11 of Ru Paul’s Drag Race has become a popular Twitter meme. A three-second clip of A’Keria Chanel Davenport’s performance of “Queens Everywhere” shows her dancing and singing “where is the body?” In the full video, she answers the question with “b**ch she’s the body.”
The first iteration of this meme (that we could find) is from this tweet by @f**kpastiche.
The clip went viral after Twitter user @rosesnthxrns posted it along with the caption “me as a murder detective.” Since then, the clip has received over 2 million views on Twitter.
me as a murder detective pic.twitter.com/W3ae0KpT1n
— naty ♡s jungeun (@rosesnthxrns) May 29, 2019
Where Is The Body?
This clip can be the punchline in a variety of jokes, but in many variations of this meme, “the body” is a reference to a corpse.
When Mary Magdalene opened Jesus’s tomb pic.twitter.com/xoq0l8IHvE
— Dewayne Perkins (@DewaynePerkins) May 30, 2019
A handshake meme and one of several references to Grindr:
gays on coroners at
Grindr the crime scene
🤝
pic.twitter.com/NR8mfVBtIf— crazy broke asian (@tribranchvo) May 30, 2019
There’s a famous (and heartbreaking) episode of Buffy The Vampire Slayer titled “The Body.”
Me looking through Limewire for my favorite Buffy Episode
— Patrick Sullivan (@PatchNavillus) May 30, 2019
The paramedics showing up at Buffy’s house in season 5pic.twitter.com/L0edIgi6zS
— Ira thee Third (@ira) May 30, 2019
A meme about all the memes:
Gays looking for instances where someone might ask "Where is the body?" pic.twitter.com/I1VijwIZe5
— Jásön‽ (@yaesohn) May 31, 2019
My parents, two years after the summer I went missing: pic.twitter.com/Dw9lKx8ffN
— Joel Kim Booster (@ihatejoelkim) May 30, 2019
Me dissociating pic.twitter.com/oUfmEqPgjn
— Harron Walker (@HarronWawker) May 30, 2019
Dr. Loomis and Laurie Strode at the end of HALLOWEEN: pic.twitter.com/VgU3Rm5A9B
— Bedder (@itgetsbedder) May 30, 2019
A little constitutional meme for ya!
the court in granting a petition for habeas corpus: pic.twitter.com/qU3XVFHibn
— Fonso Altamira (@fonsoaltamira) May 31, 2019
Akeria arriving at her new funeral home with her makeup kit pic.twitter.com/kufRbdVWWu
— nina (@tweetyohara) May 31, 2019
This meme is right on time for Pride Month!