We’ve come a long, long way.
1. Guys who lost the battle with their flat iron:
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2. Guys with this “bangs for days” haircut:
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3. Guys who took style cues from Ronald McDonald:
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4. Guys who just, like, dry humped the air in a conga line:
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5. Guys who were so concerned with bike safety that they wore reflective clothing:
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6. Guys who wore suggestive graphic tees:
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7. Like, this was kind of filthy:
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8. And bonus points if the guy had one of these Spencer’s shirts:
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9. Guys who wore hats they won at a local traveling carnival:
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10. Guys who wore zippered skin-tight baby tees:
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11. Any guy with a bowl/mushroom cut:
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12. Guys who were extremely patriotic:
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13. Guys who weren’t afraid to expose a tit or two:
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14. Guys who wore fedoras they got as part of a mob costume they bought at Party City:
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15. Guys who liked having hot wax poured on their chest:
16. Any guy with aggressively spiky, gelled-up hair:
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17. ESPECIALLY guys with spiky tips that were frosted:
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18. Or if spiky gelled frosted tips weren’t quite your thing, then you always had uncooked ramen noodle hair:
19. Speaking of “hot guy haircuts,” we had this one:
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20. And this one:
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21. Guys who weren’t afraid to show a little cleavage:
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22. Guys with extensive knit beanie collections:
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23. Guys who just kind of always looked upset:
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24. Guys who made this exact face in every picture:
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25. Guys with eyeliner tears:
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26. Just, like, John Mayer’s singing face:
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27. Guys with an affinity for women’s underwear:
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28. Cowboys:
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29. Guys with flashy, large coats:
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30. Guys who, yeah, IDK, dressed like this:
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31. Guys who wore shirts that provided some sort of optical illusion:
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32. Guys who had cool, fancy phones:
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33. Guys with the fresh-out-of-the-shower or haven’t-showered-for-days look:
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34. Guys who dressed like they were going to their 10th grade homecoming dance:
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35. Guys who were willing to couple coordinate:
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36. Guys with thermals under short-sleeve T-shirts (but especially graphic tees) and polos:
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37. Guys who were really into their bedazzler:
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38. Any guy wearing this exact “going out for the night” outfit:
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39. Also, any guy with this fit:
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40. Guys who wore corduroy newsboy caps:
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41. Honestly, most of Aaron Paul’s mid-’00s wardrobe was considered “hot, quirky guy” attire:
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42. Guys who just, like, slapped their own asses:
43. Guys who wore matching track suits without shirts under them:
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44. Any guy who wore beaded and shelled necklaces — preferably puka:
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Also, these hats. Like…
45. Guys with *the* Ryan Cabrera haircut:
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46. Guys who could only figure out how to button one single button:
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47. Guys who were really good at making dramatic hand movements in matching velvet suits:
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48. Guys who liked to hang out piled on top of each other with their stuffed animal collections:
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49. Guys with heavily manicured chin straps:
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50. Also guys with facial hair fashioned after devil horns:
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51. Guys with eclectic cowboy hat collections:
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52. Guys with itty-bitty teeny-tiny soul patches:
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53. Guys who got a little too into the messy, gelled hair thing:
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54. Guys wearing ties almost as if they were large necklaces:
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55. Guys with cute lil’ faux hawks:
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Extra bonus points if they were frosted:
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56. Guys with chewed up, shredded up turtlenecks:
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57. Any of the guys who had to stand shirtless outside an Abercrombie in the mall in distressed bootcut jeans or baggy cargo pants:
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58. Guys who took pictures pretending they were crouched over in serious pain:
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59. Guys who are very proud of their social justice initiatives:
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60. Guys who enjoyed giving each other wet willies while eating pizza:
61. Guys with pants that were so long they literally dragged on the ground:
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62. Just, like, anyone with a British accent:
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63. Guys with felt fedoras:
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64. Guys with these New York City T-shirts:
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65. Guys who wore Band-Aids as accessories:
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66. Like, there wasn’t a cut under that adhesive:
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67. Guys who dressed in their grandparent’s old drapes:
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68. Cool rocker dudes:
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69. Radical men:
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70. Farm boys:
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71. Guys who dressed as adult-sized marionettes:
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72. Guys who had an affinity for snow suits even when it wasn’t snowing:
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73. Any guy with a sexy bandana:
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74. Guys who moonlight as clowns:
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75. And finally, literally any guy who worked at Hollister and rocked weirdly, almost green-tinted distressed jeans with Hollister logo tees:
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