"gay baby jail" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: gay baby jails [plural]
Etymology: First sense coined by chat users in a live stream by content creator SimpleFlips on the video streaming service Twitch in late July 2017, from the second sense, ostensibly first attested on Tumblr since as early as 21 January 2013. Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} gay baby jail (countable and uncountable, plural gay baby jails)
  1. (slang, video games) A softlock. Tags: countable, slang, uncountable Categories (topical): Video games
    Sense id: en-gay_baby_jail-en-noun-m12D-iSv Topics: video-games
  2. (chiefly Internet slang, humorous, by extension) An imprisonment or containment. Tags: Internet, broadly, countable, humorous, uncountable
    Sense id: en-gay_baby_jail-en-noun-37cD3DAi Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 35 65

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          "ref": "2013 March 16, saccharinescorpion, Tumblr",
          "text": "tumblr user Bolto posted a picture of a bird (her bird?) in a cardboard box with a little jail window with little jail bars. the box was labeled \"Gay Baby Jail\" and next to the window was a drawn on speech bubble with the caption \"i’m a bad baby\".",
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          "ref": "2018 October 30, Raicatty, Twitter",
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          "ref": "2020 December 24, rosevolii, Twitter",
          "text": "Wakko's in gay baby jail for stealing Santa's cookies 😔",
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