Twitter is Torn Over the Eternal Question: Which Guy is Hotter? - INTO
Burning Question

Twitter is Torn Over the Eternal Question: Which Guy is Hotter?

Over the weekend, a question was posed that shook Twitter users to their core—especially the part of Twitter that cares about hot men.

When writer Ashley Reese (@offbeatorbit) took time out at a wedding to pose what is now becoming the immortal question of our age, nobody knew how polarizing the debate would become.

Within minutes, it took Twitter by storm. Everyone needed to know the answer to this burning question of who was hotter: a young Al Pacino, or a young Robert De Niro?

Some are team De Niro:

Others are team Pacino:

https://twitter.com/pwiscila/status/1657884968641757184
https://twitter.com/taytertotbitch/status/1657846246680281088

Others are watching Succession.

Some are saying it’s too close to call:

And still others have seen Dog Day Afternoon, the iconic 70s films in which a young Pacino holds up a bank to pay for his trans girlfriend’s gender-affirming surgery. Is there anything hotter than that?

Some are simply calling it the greatest debate in history. And they’re not wrong.

Even Vanity Fair got in on it:

Pacino hive, assemble!

The girls are STRESSED.

I’ll leave you with this important PSA:

https://twitter.com/Max_Kapusta/status/1657995970775506947

There are great arguments to be made on both sides, but let’s face it: there’s only one answer and it’s:

https://twitter.com/spicutr/status/1655604605277859840
https://twitter.com/uglygirl1979/status/1657921842345025539

Henry Giardina (he/they) is the editor of INTO. He lives in Los Angeles. Past publications include the New York Times, The Believer, The New Yorker, The Paris Review Daily, The Atlantic, Film Comment, and Gizmodo. He is @punkgroucho on Twitter.