About
I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter is a copypasta about a male who dreams of becoming a helicopter. It parodies absurd gender and sexual identification posts often found on forums like tumblr exploring the topic by including references to social justice terms like check your privilege.
Origin
This copypasta was originally written by Team Fortress 2 user Guuse[1] in 2014 on March 17th, and was added to his Pastebin.[2]
I sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter. Ever since I was a boy I dreamed of soaring over the oilfields dropping hot sticky loads on disgusting foreigners. People say to me that a person being a helicopter is Impossible and I’m fucking retarded but I don’t care, I’m beautiful. I’m having a plastic surgeon install rotary blades, 30 mm cannons and AMG-114 Hellfire missiles on my body. From now on I want you guys to call me “Apache” and respect my right to kill from above and kill needlessly. If you can’t accept me you’re a heliphobe and need to check your vehicle privilege. Thank you for being so understanding.
Guuse originally wrote the copypasta for use in spamming by binding it to key terms in game chat rooms during arguments on gender identity politics. In December 2014, Guuse posted a claim of authorship of the copypasta to his recruitment page on the European Team Fortress Two site.[5]
Spread
After the original stream, the copypasta was submitted first to /r/copypasta[4] on Reddit in July 2014, where it received 371 upvotes, and then to /r/sidehugs[3] where it received 187 upvotes. The copypasta and its mutations are used frequently on 4chan, especially the /pol/ and /v/ boards, where it has been used 288 times and 153 times respectively as of August 2015.[7][8] It was used over 600 times in YouTube comments as of August 2015, and derivations were used another 300 times.[9][10]
On May 18, 2014, a definition titled “helisexual” was submitted on Urban Dictionary[5], featuring multiple references to the original copypasta.
Notable Examples
Search Interest
External References
[3]Reddit – /r/sidehugs
[4]Reddit – /r/copypasta
[5]Urban dictionary – helisexual
[6]European Team Fortress Two – Recruitment: Guuse
[7]Archive.moe/v/ – Search: I sexually identify as
[8]Archive.4plebs.org/pol/ – Search: I sexually identify as
[9]Google – Search YouTube All Comments: I sexually identify as an attack helicopter
[10]Google – Search YouTube All Comments: I sexually identify as