#Final Fantasy Sexyman Polls

[finalfantasysexyman]

FINAL ROUND

[incorrectsmashbrosquotes]

Smash Bros Sexyman Contest Round 4!

[izunias-meme-hole]

[kingofdoma]

ff sexyman is coming. i promise.

but a question while i work out the matchups:

[fashiondisastertournament]

ROUND 2

Matchup #2.5: Cecil Gershwin Palmer (Welcome to Night Vale) vs Tidus (Final Fantasy X)

Who deserves a chance to compete for the Fashion Disaster Golden Croc?

In the left corner, rises Cecil Gershwin Palmer. Crowned the Tumblr sexyman, is he also Disastrous enough to win here? He has been often nominated for (all canonically):

his first date outfit being described as "my best tunic and furry pants"

wearing capri pants and a cummerbund to work

wearing yellow sponge clogs, cat ears, and tights to the opera

wearing "a black tuxedo and white bow tie, open-toed polished black shoes, a burgundy velvet cape, earrings made from repurposed car keys, and a top hat with furry tassels hanging from the brim" to his wedding

going to sleep in "a honeycomb hat, a Hawaiian shirt, and leather pants"

Opposite side, there's Tidus! That outfit certainly made some Choices, including:

"absolutely garish colors"

two different pant leg lengths (full image below)

[riacte]

thinking abt the implications of 3rd life au in spopera….. what other mirror universe easter eggs are there. does sunblr user handoftheking rb ship art on his blog. is there an unhinged treebark poll made by Not riacte. is there a separate, just as insane group of desert duo truthers. is. is the mcyt sexyman poll canon to spopera. there are soooo many possibilities here

YESSSSSSS YOU GET IT!!! EVIL CHRONIALLY ONLINE WORLDBUILDING IS SO MUCH FUN!! 😏🔥🔥🔥

Anon I think you’ll be delighted to know that I did make a dashboard simulator for exterra1blr sexyman poll and it may or may not have coincided with a major in universe world event. And ofc Martyn is there on his lil Sunblr account.

Semi-finals: RK vs QoH

Semi-finals: Blue Balls vs Hand of the King

Finals: RK vs Hand of the King

Sunblr Martyn is just as insane as normal Martyn. He also probably likes ship art on Twilight (space twitter). All his fans SCREAM whenever he moves. Wait this is just real life tbh

Fun fact: there is also an in universe 3rd Life fantasy AU fic on Ao3 and it’s like the second most kudosed ET1 RPF after… Cold Spells. Aka Treebark Heat Waves.

(the “false isn’t here stop asking” tag still hurts me lmfao i think i made the screenie in 2021)

I think evil Ria (Air?) has gone into full blown Treebark Truthing territory now sorry. But it’s fine. It’s fine to in-universe truth a ship that we as creators of the AU know is canon. In universe truthing is fine. Everything is fine.

In Spopera, desert duo are like… cartoonish scammers. They show up to sell illegal off brand merch of the racers and they run away before they get caught. They’re huge annoyances to Dogwarts and it’s kinda like Grian screaming “SCAR NO” “SCAR PUT YOUR CLOTHES BACK ON” and they both disappear in two puffs of dust. So yeah I can definitely see spacetwt shipping them via the most blurry and low res videos. If those people can ship spaceships, they can ship everything.

Thank you for the ask I love talking about Spopera and all its stupid online stuff :DDDD

[raisinchallah]

you know i think the only good tumblr poll final result was cecil winning tumblr sexyman its been downhill from there cuz that was like a fun throwback it was like a guy you wouldnt expect to be the consensus favorite kind of a dark horse candidate tbh really shook the whole bracket up guy we hadnt thought about in years but all subsequent large tournaments large polls and so on its literally just who is the most inoffensive the broad appeal the blandness oh the evil villain poll its always some rando from a childrens cartoon whos greatest crime is kicking a gumdrop everyone votes for utena and xena yet does not watch the shows we pretend to support women and yet... nowhere but the polls i guess in many ways this is like watching the nba playoffs the earlier weirder matchups are more interesting before things settle out and u realize the fantasy of ur favorite weird 6 seed team making it to the conference finals is not real and will never be real and its always going to be the same teams and so on this is actually teaching tumblr what its like to be sports fans no vriska will never win finals mvp and the mystics will get knocked out in the first round :(

[macarensesangles]

emet is beating sephy on the ff fuckability poll right now thank goodness

someone in the tags said this is a generational shift. Honestly could be. ff7 came out the year I was born so i lived exclusively in a post-sephiroth world and came of age on an Internet where he dominated like sexy bishie discussion for a while and then became like the go-to hot anime jrpg guy for ironic jokes about bishie likers & I think his is a presence that breached containment from Fandom to like Pop Culture Generally.

It’s possible emet’s growing popularity with the more modern final fantasy crowd will one day enshrine him in a similar place in the pop cultural canon, but bc xiv is an MMO it might be a limited phenomenon; a lot of people in the notes didn’t recognize him, and I never see any people outside of XIV fandom talking about emet or emet fans.

i would prefer for him not to become the default sexyman i think sephiroth has. However if he did I’d be quite proud of him, especially for doing it in his mid-40s

[wine-dark-soup]

Ffxiv friends im very surprised none of you created a "final fantasy fourteen sexyman" poll. I would vote

[eldritch-elrics]

memes of 2022

[memes of 2021]

every year i am a little bit later with this. anyway, here’s my casual list of tumblr/twitter memes i saw in 2022 in my sphere of the internet, roughly in chronological order. i’ve almost certainly missed some (or described some of the ones that are here incorrectly/incoherently), but hopefully it’s fun to read anyway!

horse plinko

john lennon’s asscrack

blorbo from shows

the fall of urfaveisunfuckable

wordle scores

guy with big eyes

(megamind) no bitches?

i am in misery / i save dick by giving it cpr / reese's puffs

it’s me boy i’m the ps5

live slug reaction

my brother in christ

car battery dropping on jade from victorious

maidenless

homophobic dog

get drinked

tumblr blaze

tumblr crabs

ball shaving ads

debating the use of kung pow penis

elon musk buying twitter / twitter refugees on tumblr

misha collins coming out as straight

what would you do if i were a bug

video games characters at the mall

dracula daily

“hey i’m justin bieber” “and…?”

morbius

overwatch diversity chart

swedes not inviting friends to dinner

that’s why this pride month i’m partnering with x

x closed forever because a y threw up

mousegirl (nonsexual)

the lgbtq+ community has forgiven x

tumblr pikachu man

sometimes i wonder what i taste like

the final fantasy rp billboard

boris johnson resigning & ongoing uk fiasco (+ lettuce)

little guy dancing

oh look, the last ripe peach!

gougar

girl yelling in boy’s ear

circling a word in red and pointing to an image of something that sounds similar

reddit guy who fucks to cbat

modding your 3ds is easy

honestly [character] has been through so much more

gandalf big naturals

reigen winning twitter polls and then finally getting beaten by sans in tumblr sexyman contest

the queen of england dying immediately afterward (plus tons of other wild stuff)

the yaoi poll

holy fucking fuck that body of yours is absurd

drawing anime eyes with amongus guys

jesse pinkman's shirt when he goes through the most traumatic experience of his life

some fandom thing turning up in a random us city/state

tree guy

investing in posts

me listening to my completely unorganized playlist

hey don’t cry. x ok?

spirit halloween costumes

goncharov

i just got laid off from twitter, i was the person responsible for the feature where x

general twitter crashing and burning

koopas dancing

you don’t like trumpet? bwaa?

in an interview, wednesday star jenna ortega revealed…

bill clinton game awards kid (unfortunately)

hydrogen bomb vs coughing baby

cylinder dick guy

greta thunberg vs andrew tate

different types of cube designs

[mihai-florescu]

Keeping tabs on all the polls Reigen has won and currently hes

- 1# twink

- 1# dilf

- 1# milf

- the ultimate babygirl

- the hottest anime Woman

- 2# Tumblr sexyman

- 1# final fantasy boss

And he's currently winning ultimate conman and listed in the ultimate pathetic loserman poll

This might be getting out of hand

It'd be hillarious if he *doesnt* win ultimate conman. I think we should also add him to a best enstars character poll and see how far he gets

[finalfantasysexyman]

[incorrectsmashbrosquotes]

Smash Bros Sexyman contest: Round Two!

[izunias-meme-hole]

The Ultimate Tumblr Sexyman Tournament - Round 3 (Quarterfinals)

We’re almost there folks! We’re almost at the finals!

Round 3:

Cecil Palmer vs Bill Cipher

Alucard vs Sephiroth

[kingofdoma]

Final Fantasy Sexyman Survey!

Okay, gang, needing some input.

So, FF sexyman clearly won the poll, but I need info from you. So, I whipped up this poll for you to input your ideas on who to include and why! Reblog this, tag randos, pass it around your Discord... whatever. I need data! Can't run this bracket unless I know who you want to go in it!

Thanks, guys!

[translationandbetrayals]

The rise of Reigen Arataka as the internet (sexy)man of all time.

I know the title is misleading, but I can’t be more obvious about the subject.

I’ll try to not take anything serious here. Although

If you’re chronic online enough, you may understand where this is going. You know the subject.

If not, believe me, you aren't losing any stuff here.

So… who is this Reigen we are talking about?

I don’t think there’s someone who doesn’t know him. Well I knew one (1) friend that actually didn’t, but he doesn’t count. Arataka Reigen is a predominant character from Mob Psycho 100, better known by the anime adaptation rather than the original manga mostly because the anime improved so much his persona (and the story adaptation, let’s be honest) that’s unrecognizable from the source material.

Reigen is one of the closest characters to our young protagonist Shigeo Kageyama, nicknamed Mob. Owning a psychic agency, alongside Mob he helps customers with paranormal situations, using techniques such as exorcism to get rid of spirits. As he doesn’t have psychic abilities like Mob, whenever the teen is gone, he uses everything on his hands to make them believe he’s resolving the issue, most times manipulating the situation enough so he could get out unscathed. 

Even the anime gives him the chance to show epicness whether he demostrate special movements and skills that surpass our imaginations, instead of being embarrasing.

Reigen is a truly charming man… in his own way, despite his average appearance and his con man’s eagerness. With dark eyes and short blond hair, he’s an emotive guy, with facial gestures that may be attractive, but also terrifying. Of course this is because of the manga drawing style, but as I said, mostly of the time it serves as a complete support to his personality rather than an obstacle.

There’s also the fact that he uses a gray suit, that can be appealing to the users. Reigen also gesticulates actively with his hands, and the fact that he’s an actual “father figure” to Mob adds to his charm.

I have to say, though, Reigen has a depressing layer too: He hides his essence by walls of false ego, using excuses like self-proclaiming himself as “the 21th century’s biggest psychic”, even without having powers. Reigen expresses that he avoids being himself because he fears that he can be a disappointment. He expels charisma in a side, but in the other he just succumbs into despair. Nevertheless his failures, he genuinely cares by his close relatives, kindheartedly. Even acknowledging the kind of man he is, the public empathizes with his situation instead of criticizing him, being then another aspect of his unquestionable charm.

Considering the “Tumblr Sexyman” phenomena on the Web, it was expected that Reigen could be considered as one.

(As a simple explanation, a Tumblr Sexyman can be any character from any source that is considered “sexy” by their fandom. It doesn’t need to follow any beauty canon though, but there are certain archetypes that sometimes appear as well. Some examples I can think are Bruno Madrigal from Encanto and The Onceler from The Lorax Movie.)

Okay, well, we now understand why Reigen can be seen as attractive as a wet furball of chaos and tragedy, but even with the anime being popular nowadays, how is it that there are non-otakus massively liking this character? What happened?

A historic moment in his career was the skyrocketing popularity from Twitter polls. In fandom circles, there was an increasing creation of polls aimed at different topics, such as “best character from X category” or “best femenine character from X saga”, among others. Of course, the internet took it upon itself to exceed its horizons, and the spark that provoked a media explosion was including Reigen in said votations.

Of being “supreme twink” to “the hottest anime woman” to even being “Best Boss of the Award-Winning MMORPG Final Fantasy”, Reigen broke records in these elections, to the point where a trending hashtag #REIGENSWEEP was generated. Fans from the entire planet shared its notorious support to achieve his victory.

But the event that crowned him, reaching even for people who aren’t chronic online was the Ultimate Tumblr Sexyman election, a category that would finally fight face to face with no one more or less than Sans from Undertale. This event was so fought among the fans that a result with a very small difference was expected, but which opponent would take the victory?

Finally, in the face of all the unexpected, Sans would dethrone Reigen from his unbeaten streak by 0.1%. The media coverage was so great that the whole world was aware of these results.

This led to even Toby Fox, the creator of Undertale and Deltarune, return to his Twitter account after years being inactive to post a short fanfic of Sans and Reigen fighting for the title.

Yes, this was truly a wild ride at the start of September. Not only this increased Reigen’s popularity, but it’s quite a coincidence that this collided with the day Queen Elizabeth of England died. This didn’t go unnoticed by everyone but created a new nuke to explode on the internet, and Reigen kept growing in relevance by the bizarre and the ridiculousness the users could offer.

Although not winning the election, Reigen was crowned as one of the sexiest characters on the Web, being titled also as everyone’s “little meow meow” and “disastrous babygirl”. I have to admit, after all of this researching (it’s me happily watching Mob Psycho 100 and voting in the elections as the responsible online citizen I am) I can see his appealing, the good-looking thing that got everyone drooling over his existence, but hey at least he slays with it.

It’s funny that he even got related to Saul Goodman, one of the men of all time that also got his “time to shine” at the Pandemic Quarantine. Well, Breaking Bad had kind of the same explosion by fans, returning its popularity back as it should BUT with the price that the fans created a “fanon version” so separated from the original show thanks to meme culture.

We can say Reigen passed for the same train, but let’s be honest: with his own persona he can create the memes that can fulfill our souls without hesitating.

- Kafi Díaz Durán.