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The mainstream appeal of white men has always flourished over men of color largely because we have been taught that white men are the gold standard of attractiveness. The fact that such behavior continues to be rewarded is a continuous reminder how embedded such racist practices are within the communities we build in and for our online lives.” “That fact that people continue to do so belies individuals’ own racist practices. “From dance videos on YouTube to circulating memes on Twitter and everywhere between, black cultural appropriation and theft mark digital spaces in the same way they have others throughout our history,” Charlton McIlwain, a professor at New York University’s department of media, culture, and communication, tells Teen Vogue. Similarly, Logan Lerman takes a place in pop culture history for playing the titular Percy Jackson and bringing Charlie to life in the YA book turned film The Perks of Being a Wallflower. There’s Josh Hutcherson, who portrayed dough-baking and great-drama-for-television-creating Peeta Mellark alongside Jennifer Lawrence’s Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games trilogy. This also fulfills the digital aspect of the role on a rudimental level - the first Twilight film came out in 2008, just as social networks such as Facebook and Twitter began to become popular digital destinations where people could share everything from their innermost thoughts to innocuous ramblings about guys they thought were cute.Ī number of other white boys also walked so the white boys of today could run on Twitter. Twitter’s white boy of the month has deep roots in Twilight actor Robert Pattinson, who was the pinnacle of romance and attraction during the heyday of Stephenie Meyer’s vampire fantasy series.
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However, Twitter’s white boy of the month also has the essential internet component to it they are selected in part because of the interest that snowballs on a social network like Twitter. As Twitter user points out, “Due to their privilege and social capital, white men have had mostly unfettered access to entertainment.” White men in Hollywood have been thirsted after since the days of Marlon Brando and James Dean, and even before that. Google search data also shows that just the term “white boy of the month” had high search interest in January 2019 and bubbles up every month.īut the lineage of Twitter’s white boy of the month has history even before the likes of Timothée Chalamet. Twitter’s white boy of the month appears to have caught more momentum during early 2018 Madison noted she first heard about it sometime during summer 2018. It didn’t pop up on Urban Dictionary until December 2018, and Know Your Meme, another reliable source for indexing all things internet, doesn’t even have an entry at this point in time.
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It’s unclear exactly when the term was technically created, but there’s evidence to show that it’s been used over the past couple of years, also called “stan Twitter’s white boy of the month” before the more generalized one. I’m not sure how it got so obsessive but I guess that’s just the power of stan Twitter and the media.”
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“Twitter has become obsessed with the tall, skinny, pale, curly-haired white guy recently and Timothée fit the stereotype perfectly, so I think he started it but then it just grew and expanded.
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“I think with white culture in movies and TV shows being shoved down our throats since the start of TVs, it has made us just normally think the famous star is an attractive white guy when growing up,” Madison tells Teen Vogue.