If you thought you had a good weekend, chances are it wasn’t anywhere near as memorable as the weekend had by the Demon Twink, an unnamed man last spotted on Saturday aboard a Circle Line cruise boat in Manhattan. In the 24 hours since a tweet bearing his iconic moniker went semi-viral on Twitter, he’s had his identity pondered, stolen, and a had a whole ass Netflix Original movie (produced by Ryan Murphy, no less) written about him. So why exactly is everybody talking about the Demon Twink?
Well, let’s start at the beginning. Ty Sunderland is a Brooklyn-based DJ and producer known for his series of Gayflower boat parties, one of which was held on Saturday in support of our queen Britney Spears. Stick a bunch of gay men on a boat and you’re asking for disaster anyway, but the Kiki went south when one now-iconic patron — that’s our Demon Twink — threw his drink on Ty’s DJ equipment, breached the stage to start dancing, refused to get off that stage until the music stopped, and was later found, ass in the air, receiving anallingus in the VIP area. The gays, girls and theys picked up on Ty’s tweet, and thus the search for this messy icon’s identity began.
Initially, our evidence was limited to one screenshot image of the Demon Twink approaching Ty. But it was blurry, like an image of the Cloverfield monster taken from the back of a movie theatre on someone’s Motorola Razr in 2008. Riveting, but not much to go off. Soon, corroborating stories poured in.
So it seems pretty likely that this actually happened. A man boarded a boat in Manhattan, got extremely lit, made a hell of a scene and then got his ass ate in front of a crowd of people — in the VIP area, no less! It truly is a story for the gay ages. “Where were you when you heard about the Demon Twink aboard the Britney boat, getting his ass ate in VIP?” feels like a question as memorable as “Where were you when you heard about Michael Jackson’s death/the assassination of Bin Laden/the first case of Covid-19?”. A moment etched into history forever.
Despite a video now doing the rounds of the Demon Twink having the time of his life in full 4K (we won’t post that here to save him the embarrassment), we are still yet to confirm his identity. In the meantime…
And Zola’s Jeremy O. Harris has said he’ll work on a script too, with one similar stipulation.
But that doesn’t seem like it will be an issue. Troye has already aligned himself with the Demon Twink, suggesting playing him in a project by Ryan or Jeremy isn’t such a far-off concept.
So there you have it! While the Demon Twink is still slinking about New York City undercover, Hollywood’s cultural elite are already banding together to make projects about his lofty achievements. Come forward, king, and bring a lawyer! You may have inadvertently kickstarted the next great horror movie franchise and you deserve the coins.
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