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What is ‘big dick energy’ and why is it a meme right now?

Full disclosure: you don’t actually need to have a big dick.

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If you’ve been on Twitter in the past week or so, you may have noticed the term “big dick energy” circulating in your timeline. But what is big dick energy? What does it take to possess big dick energy?

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Well, to borrow from another great meme to explain this meme, one does not simply need a big dick to possess big dick energy. Likewise, not everyone with a big dick is necessarily endowed with big dick energy.

Confused? Perhaps it would be best to begin where the meme originated, with the passing of the late, great Anthony Bourdain earlier this month.

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If anyone had big dick energy, it was Bourdain. He was brash, fearless, and exuded confidence out of every pore. In other words, exactly the kind of confidence you associate with a guy who is definitely packing down there. And not to make light of the dead, but I’m betting Bourdain could have put his money where his mouth was in that regard, as well.

It wasn’t the first time the phrase made an appearance on the website, but it definitely picked up steam after that tweet.

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“Big dick energy” really exploded in popularity just a few days ago, however, when Twitter user @babyvietcong used it to describe the inexplicable yet also kinda weirdly understandable whirlwind romance and subsequent quickie engagement of Billboard Hot 100 mega pop star Ariana Grande to Saturday Night Live goofball Pete Davidson.

https://twitter.com/babyvietcong/status/1010320636042993664

“Pete Davidson is 6’3 with dark circles, exudes big dick energy, looks evil but apparently is an angel, and loves his girl publicly the only thing wrong w him is that he’s a Scorpio but anyway,” she reasoned. “I’d married him within a month too.”

Again, not that size necessarily matters when it comes to big dick energy—but it’s worth pointing out that Grande more or less confirmed the theory in a now-deleted Twitter exchange.

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You get it, girl.

Just as having big dick energy doesn’t require a guy to be well endowed, the quality is not even limited to having a dick—as you can see from the way the phrase has been creatively adapted on Twitter.

https://twitter.com/rey_z/status/1011268278965153792

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https://twitter.com/pogform/status/1011615148375670784

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https://twitter.com/meat_and_rice/status/1011095818164736000

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Big dick, small dick, no dick, blue dick … if there’s one thing we can probably agree on, though, it’s this:

https://twitter.com/kathbarbadoro/status/1011323369189527558

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