Christian Divyne , a 31-year-old comedian, was midway through streaming the New York City mayoral debate on Oct. 22 when he predicted what would go viral.

It wasn’t the candidates’ stances on President Donald Trump or their approach to affordable housing. It wasn’t a heated discussion on the new ballot proposals. It was a single line Curtis Sliwa said: “Don’t be glazing me here, Zohran.”

Divyne was right: Sliwa’s quippy one-liner—using Gen Z slang for “buttering up”—quickly blew up on TikTok. But later that night, after scrolling through dozens of Sliwa video edits or skits, he’d had enough, so he decided to make a post himself.

“Not to suck all the air out of the room but we need to stop the babygirlification of Curtis Sliwa,” he said in a video posted to his TikTok account, u

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