The Daily Wire's Mr. Birchum Has Found its Audience

July 10, 2024

The Daily Wire's animated series Mr. Birchum may have found its audience, though it's probably not the one they were expecting.

Via @Le_Unorthodox on Twitter

Mr. Birchum is an family animated cartoon show available on the Daily Wire streaming service. The Daily Wire is the right-wing platform founded by Ben Shapiro and Jeremy Boreing. Mr. Birchum is the brain child of Adam Carolla who had been unsuccessfully pitching the show to networks for over a decade.

Mr. Birchum during Pride Month thinking about kissing Karponzi

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Mr. Birchum is a teacher who hates kids, in fact he hates most everything except wood. Mr Birchum is portrayed in the show as a traditional manly man who longs for other manly men. When he first meets the woke antagonist, Karponzi, he declines to consent to shake his hand because he already has a wife. We later learn that Mr Birchum hates his wife. He also ends up hallucinating a sequence where he dances romantically with Karponzi.

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Whether intentional or not, the show has given its audience strong indications that Mr. Birchum may have a closeted attraction towards other men, particularly Karponzi. The result of which was an explosion of Yaoi art and content on the internet: