Gay Baby Jail (GBJ for short) is SimpleFlips' term for a softlock. Generally, this term refers to a set of circumstances that make progression through a game impossible. Not all GBJ's are created equal and some are harder to escape from than others as there have been instances in which SimpleFlips has been able able to get out of GBJ's, usually by God-BLJing.
In the lore, it has the connotation of being a physical location that traps the player character inescapably. However, GBJ has also been treated as a spiritual state that resurfaces throughout one's life.
Jet Eriksen (better known as Piplup Guy) records the GBJs SimpleFlips encounters in each video.
The origins of GBJ can be found in the video "Super Mario XD" in which simpleflips gets stuck in a cage which a viewer called "Gay Baby Jail." Simpleflips put that viewer in GBJ for even mentioning his diabolical plot to trap gay babies in jails because fuck gay babies.
Definition
A GBJ meets the following conditions. Specific rules may change depending on the game.
- Being there prevents progress toward any main objective, such as Power Stars in Super Mario 64.
- It provides no way to lose a life—excluding abstract features such as level timers.
- The player character cannot escape it using in-level tools.
- The player character might be unable to move due to the cause being a Reverse Polygon, or it's a slide surface leading into another slide surface.
- Depending on the strictness of the definition, the player might not be able to escape it by exiting the level from a menu.
Notes
- Also known as a "Homosexual Infant Purgatory."
Channel Jokes
1, 2 Oatmeal · 200 IQ · Abandoned Children · Adhesive · BUP · Eediot · Fred · Gay Baby Jail · I Can Fly · Ram Ranch · Roxanne · Shoutouts to SimpleFlips · No Cock Like Horse Cock
Stream Jokes
50-50 Grind · Banger · C O O L · Companion P · First Try, Idiot! · Great Entertainer He Is · SimpleFlips Screaming · Speedrunners Hate Him · T-Spin · Garbage
Cursed Bangers
Banger · 1, 2 Oatmeal · Ram Ranch · Roxanne · SimpleFlips Screaming · No Cock Like Horse Cock · I Can Fly
Community Jokes
0.5x A Presses · Aching Tentacles · Bomb Clip · Counter · Dad · Need it as my Ringing Tone · Owless · Press A To Be Gay Today · Pringles Can for $100 · Releasio 64 · TJ "Henry" Yoshi · Toss Your Salad · Unmod Ben · Robot 64
Narrators
Carlos · Harry · Narrator vs Text-to-Speech · SimpleFlips' Narrator
BLJ
BLJ · BLJ the Thwomp's Cock · God-BLJ · IRL BLJ
ROM Hacking Jokes
Green Demon · Invisible Walls · Lava · Lazy Texture Packs · Out of Bounds · Quicksand · Reverse Polygons · Teleportation· Chuckya· Horrifying BUP Abominations
Minus World
Nathaniel Bandy Everytime · Scuttlebug Bandy · Striving for Originality