#we dont need to 'reclaim' it. we dont need to 'destroy cringe culture' it.

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since we're talking about it, here's the stupidest hill i'm willing to die on: there hasn't been an actual new tumblr sexyman since like 2017, it was a specific phenomenon in time that's over and now people just pick any popular character and try and say that's onceler 2. tumblr sexymen are guys who are shipped en masse with themselves, get wildly mischaracterized to the point of being unrecognizable, are oddly isolated from the narrative, completely inescapably eclipse other stuff in the tag, and have thirst posts etc that wildly break containment. until we get swarms of unironic final boss benrey/chill benrey before he got caught in the door that one time on ao3, i'm putting the term up on a shelf. thank u very much for ur time and i hope you have a pleasant day

every day i talk about sexology i only descend more into the insanity. this phrase is literally undefinable. it has a definition in the same way religion has a definition. because every time you try to define a religion, you turn your back and realize "oh shit! the way ive defined it has left out this crucial big religion!" and so you fix your definition until its a rambling of nothing thats vague enough to encompass anything and yet means precious little. there is no hope for any of this anymore. nobody even knows what we're trying to say anymore.