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[jasper-rolls]

thinking about this further, i think there's definitely been a certain shift in how sexymen develop and are appreciated by the people who are into them

in the early days, sexymen became sexymen through what i would call the "wheatlification" of the characters. like, let's be clear here: people were not looking at a clock with pipe cleaner limbs and going "unnffff so fucking sexy i want to stroke his perfectly circular body"*, they were getting horny for the character being humanized in the mold of wheatley drawn as his voice actor, stephen merchant. bill cipher and others were victim to this as well - people were drawn to their kind of chaotic bad boy personalities, and thought that said personality applied to a white boy with blond hair wearing vaguely character themed outfits was hot, because the state of humanizing inhuman characters in the early 2010s, was, let's be frank, fucking dire.

but in more recent times (unless i'm really good at curating my dashboard and there's a slew of people drawing spamton as a thin tall twink), there's been more of an appreciation for the characters as they are, and if they do get redesigned into a more human form, there's more active effort by the fanartists to retain the unusual or offbeat qualities of the character. i want to hazard a guess and say this shift came about around the time onceler took off but i really have no idea. just an interesting shift in how sexymen have developed over the years i suppose. i dont know what it has to say about the site as a collective mindset but certainly i prefer the new ways more.

also while i have everyone here can i just say i'm fairly certain the geico gecko and the man with the yellow hat were never tumblr sexymen? i've never seen ANYONE horny for them ever, not in any extensive capacity that would justify them being put on the list. i think they were astroturfed into being sexymen and everyone compiling sexymen lists afterwards just put them on because the earlier lists had them and why would anyone lie about posts online? hey have you heard about oppa homeless style post?

*i mean just by pure statistical probability and the weirdness of the internet someone probably was horny for the DHMIS clock as is, but we're speaking more generally here

i feel like a trait of “tumblr sexyman” that’s getting lost as of late is. the incomprehensibility of it all. i will see characters who are just like, conventionally attractive anime men be referred to as sexymen and its like. no. no. like its not just “any dude some tumblr people lose their shit for”, a fundamental part of the experience of like, learning about tumblr sexyman is that your initial reaction to learning a character is a sexyman is to go “how the fuck could ANYONE ever find this sexy”. a shortstack funny comedy skeleton. a character from a dr seuss book whose only viewable limbs are their arms. the incredibly low poly model of a half life 1 security guard. your first reaction upon learning what the sexyman is should be confusion and bafflement. it’s core to the whole concept.

[mikebarbre]

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[mikebarbre]

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