You can read the FCC complaints about 'gay humping' at Bad Bunny's halftime show

It’s the most wonderful time of the year. That’s right, it’s the day when the Federal Communications Commission releases all the complaints it received about the Super Bowl Halftime Show.

In case your memory has been wiped since February, Bad Bunny’s stunning performance at Super Bowl LX this year caused quite a stir, with the conservative group Turning Point USA even launching preemptive counterprogramming featuring Kid Rock and a bunch of other people whose names sound Chat GPT-generated. The source of their discontent? The fact that Bad Bunny is a Spanish-language performer — and the fact that he’s a vocal supporter of the LGBTQ+ community.

In fact, Benito went out of his way to include a noticeably gay moment in the choreography for the show, which prompted one Republican congressman to call for a formal inquiry into the broadcast. The whining extended far beyond Capitol Hill, however. Viewers at home are allowed to voice their discontent, too, and they often do so directly to the FCC.

This year, there were more than 2,000 salty messages sent to the agency in the aftermath of the broadcast, and they were finally released online this weekend. Of course, many of them took issue with the fact that Bad Bunny exclusively rapped in his native tongue, with one Raleigh, North Carolina, viewer writing, “There are illegals on my TV screen. I don't understand Spanish, but I think I heard inappropriate language.”

But many complaints focused on that very brief instance of gay grinding, which is relatively tame compared to a lot of the straight dancing at the halftime show. Below, we’ve compiled some of our favorite homophobic FCC complaints about Bad Bunny’s performance:

One viewer in Chicago wrote, “Gyrating, gays humping each other, disgusting dancing and when you put the lyrics of the song he was singing is appalling, deviant behavior should not be tolerated in what is supposed to be a night for family and patriotism!!!”

Someone in Brooklyn complained: “also showing two gay men gyrating on each other was extremely graphic for a program being marketed as family friendly. I will never watch the super bowl again.”

This message from Texas was borderline indecipherable: “Speaking of sex in cars, oral and but sex watching a literal gay orgy on TV.” Huh?

Another Texas viewer was confused by the grinding moment: “They also performed some form of gay sex act on screen.” (If that viewer would like to understand more about what was happening, they can read our guide to outercourse.)

One California viewer suffered a critical spelling error just when they were about to drive their point home: “I watched the superbowl with my children and there was nasty lyrics and gay men grinding on each other this is unexceptable.”

Another California viewer was very focused on where the grinding took place: “also showed 2 gay men having sex on a truck.” Sacré bleu! Not on a truck, that most holy symbol of American heterosexuality!

Someone from Michigan sounded like they were foaming at the mouth while typing: “Disgusting Sexual Language ! Sexual Dry Humping All Over !! Gay Humping ETC !!!!”

And finally — for the purposes of this roundup — another Michigan viewer simply exclaimed, “Gay porn!” Don’t sound too excited!

In reality, the moment that drove so much uproar was no more suggestive than your average NFL cheerleader dance routine. In the days that followed the show, one of the dancers, Dan Santiago, told Them the backlash to the moment was “absolutely ridiculous.” Now that we can read the FCC complaints, that feels like an understatement.

This story was originally published on Them.