Hot boys belong to every era, but there was something about the early 2000s. It’s almost as if, while women were being exposed to horrible fashion trends, slut-shaming, and fatphobia, men were allowed to get away with frosty tips and puka shell necklaces to their hearts’ content.
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And we loved them for it. Tiger Beat magazine thrived because of it. An entire industry arose from it! White it boys were everywhere in the early 2000s—in fact you might say that due to racism, there were very few other varieties of it boys allowed on TV at the time.
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So when someone on X posed the question of why a certain brand of white boy has gone extinct, people felt compelled to enter the chat.
The obvious response is that they definitely do still make white boys like this, but most of them are way too embarrassing for us to actively crush on. Also, all these men still exist, and are still fine! They just happen to be middle-aged!
One shrewd poster explained that this kind of swag very much exists still, in Canada. As if we weren’t already considering asylum! Twist our arm!
Also…Harris Dickinson exists! There are WB channel twinks everywhere for those with eyes to see!
One Tree Hill might not be part of the weeknight lineup anymore, but its spirit lives on…
The TL;DR is: nobody needs to worry because there are plenty of mildly attractive white boys in the media currently. Case closed!
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