'It's horrifying, but also like, I won': The male thirst trap emerges - ABC Everyday
In 2022, TikTok is inundated with a wave of lip-smacking, smoldering videos with completely different eyes, and this one stars straight men looking for female followers. Load This might be a shirtless grind and lip sync, a POV where she’s role-playing the morning after you get home together, or if you’re lucky, a short motivational speech about how you’re the best girl in the world. The whole thing was weird enough that Leia Jospe felt inspired to collect the best of the genre and repost it on her Instagram account, favetiktoks420. “I see the trend going on on TikTok. All these young men peacock into the camera in a way I’ve never seen before, that I’ve always been associated with femininity and being a woman,” she said. I just think they’re not only cute but [also] very representative of the changing culture of young people.” Who’s in the men’s thirst trap zoo? There are several different sub-genres of male traps that Leia and her friends have noticed, who are also eyeing this corner