Twitter is a funny place--trending topics on the social media site can range from the mundane to the topical to the truly bizarre and offensive. But a fairly wonderful thing manifested itself yesterday on the Interwebs. Twitter users by the thousands hijacked the inane, anti-gay (not to mention often unintelligible) new hashtag, #SignsYoSonIsGay, flooding it with inspiring messages of positivity.

It's unclear why anyone would start the hashtag in the first place. Apparently, someone who thinks that stereotyping the LGBT community is always good fodder for a joke or two.

Not surprisingly, at first, many people obliged.

But just as many Twitter followers soon started posting messages of their own--with a distinctly different theme. As the Daily Kos wrote, this is what "countering homophobia on Twitter looked like. And it's a beautiful sight to behold."

Buzzfeed and Gawker were also quick to point out the phenomenon, and their round-ups of inspirational tweets soon made the rounds as well, inciting the rage of at least one Twitter user unhappy that the original intent of the hashtag had been turned on its homophobic head.