This Bootleg RuPaul Ornament Has Everyone Laughing

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The Christmas holiday season is rapidly approaching along with all its associated merch, but one person who’s definitely not celebrating on that front is drag legend Rupaul, whose bootleg ornament is, well, a hot mess and has social media ho-ho-hoing hard.

It’s basically the perfect example of that internet joke: What I ordered versus what I got. In this case, the ornament is almost Rupaul... if it were her Madame Tussauds wax figure that’d been left out in the sun. It’s horrifying, but in the way that makes you want to buy a dozen — which is exactly what famed drag artist Trixie Mattel did, leading Rupaul to (jokingly) clap back.

\u201cCatch me outside, bitch!\u201d
— RuPaul (@RuPaul) 1637004079

It all started with Twitter users posting images of the unofficial decoration and tagging Ru, who wasn’t shy about her feelings on the subject. "Unauthorized Crap," she wrote on Twitter, alongside the hashtag, #RuinedChristmas.

\u201cUnauthorized Crap. #RuinedChristmas\u201d
— RuPaul (@RuPaul) 1637004566

Ever the marketing genius, she suggested picking up an authorized version instead.

\u201cAuthorized vs. Bootleg #PussyHoCouldNever #SheIsNotOneOfDem\u201d
— RuPaul (@RuPaul) 1637028914

But that hasn’t stopped the internet from having a field day with the new ornament — and we are dying.

\u201cRuPaul to whoever made those Christmas ornaments\u201d
— Joey Nolfi (@Joey Nolfi) 1637006467

\u201cI bet Lady Bunny is behind these\u201d
— Black Lives Still Matter (@Black Lives Still Matter) 1637006008

\u201cFinally sighted: @RuPaul\u2019s inner saboteur.\n\n@OddlyYvie @NinaWest @RuPaulsDragRace\u201d
— Andrew Scahill (@Andrew Scahill) 1637030259

\u201cMamma @RuPaul popping off\u201d
— Dan Ellis (@Dan Ellis) 1637031707

\u201c@RuPaul I CAN'T.\u201d
— RuPaul (@RuPaul) 1637004566

\u201c@RuPaul On the website they even made Ru\u2019s boogers glamorous & sparkly. Sashay! \u2728\u201d
— RuPaul (@RuPaul) 1637004079

\u201cShe\u2019s been yassified! @RuPaul @thatonequeen\u201d
— Idaho (@Idaho) 1637013887

\u201c@PrinceCatEyez @RuPaul The art is infinite, endless, accurate and precise.\n\nThis century has giving me more than i could ever wish for.\u201d
— Prince Cat-Eyez (@Prince Cat-Eyez) 1636990000

Too early for a Christmas miracle? I don’t think.

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Rachel Shatto, Editor in Chief of PRIDE.com, is an SF Bay Area-based writer, podcaster, and former editor of Curve magazine, where she honed her passion for writing about social justice and sex (and their frequent intersection). Her work has appeared on Elite Daily, Tecca, and Joystiq, and she podcasts regularly about horror on the Zombie Grrlz Horror Podcast Network. She can’t live without cats, vintage style, video games, drag queens, or the Oxford comma.

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