A Letter to Everyone I Know Regarding RuPaul’s Drag Race GIFs

By The Hairpin March 8, 2013

by KatieWalsh

Dearest friends, family members, aquaintances, lovers, colleagues, and trusted confidants,

I come to you today to discuss an important matter in my life that you will need to be aware of for our relationship to continue. I have decided that moving forward I will communicate solely via animated GIF images from Season 5 of RuPaul’s Drag Race. Simple words do not convey the nuance and emotion that can be encapsulated in a RuPaul’s Drag Race GIF. Why am I even typing words right now?

In order to ease you, my loved one or potential communicator, into the process, I’m going to walk you through a few scenarios. See if you can’t pick up what I’m trying to put down.

See, this would be me getting my flirt on at a local tavern or watering hole. Perhaps an OkCupid message? That’s it, I’m only responding to OkCupid messages with Drag Race GIFs, and if that’s too much for those fellows, well then, here’s what I have to GIF about that:

Moving on. Let’s try another.

That should be clear, right? No need for words there!

And, of course, there’s no better way to express something so nuanced as “shade” than with a Drag Race GIF. I DARE you to describe the following emotions with words. You can’t do it.