Nichole Perkins, a writer and co-host of the podcast Thirst Aid Kit, says her earliest memories of the inside joke were among friends in high school and college, until an early online black community helped bridge the gap between those disparate friend groups.Įven before MySpace, there existed a social network where people lusted over gray sweatpants: BlackPlanet, which launched in 2001. Haters will say it's an 8 foot Christmas tree but I assure it's 100% real #GreySweatpantsChallenge /vmmoi1bQ8y- Treyoncé November 28, 2016īut eyeballing men in gray sweatpants goes back much further than Twitter. People have discussed them on Twitter and Tumblr for at least five years podcaster Tracy Clayton’s 2015 BuzzFeed piece “ Gray Sweatpants Are The Most Important Things A Man Can Wear” served as one of the earlier chronicles of the phenomenon. Just as there is sundress season, which Bossip deftly described as “the perfect time for women to smuggle their hams in flowy-yet-tight pieces of fabric sewn by the gods themselves,” there is also gray sweatpants season, which begins and ends around the same time that sweater season does.īut the greater “gray sweatpants season,” or rather, the time in which gray sweatpants have been an object of desire, is more nebulous. That they must be gray in order to be “gray sweatpants” likely has to do with the shadow effect: It’s more difficult to see the lumps and bumps on a person’s body when the person is wearing darker colors. It is the rare person who doesn’t own a pair of sweatpants - unlike a suit, which can cost hundreds of dollars, a pair of sweatpants can go for 15 bucks - and they might as well be gray. They are also not exactly difficult to procure. Me When I Spot a Man in Gray Sweatpants: /ov1rXQGeLI- 1984’s George Whorewell December 3, 2018 Me: I hate men, I’m done with them and their foolishness As long as you’ve got a) gray sweatpants and b) a dick, you’re good. Much like the cultural fervor about 10 years ago over how yoga pants (back when they were called “yoga pants” and not just leggings) made a woman’s butt look good, gray sweatpants have lasted as a thirst phenomenon because there are not a lot of ingredients one needs to achieve the look. To be completely frank with you, fellow adult, here is the actual allure of gray sweatpants on the internet: It’s that you can sort of see the outline of a guy’s dick when he wears them. But online, “gray sweatpants” are the equivalent of a simpering wink between the digital thirsty. Gray sweatpants, of course, are just sweatpants that are gray. Putting online horniness into a coded language makes it feel like a shared experience, making it less taboo to express one’s sexuality on the internet.”Īnd there’s perhaps no better emblem in the world of coded online lasciviousness than gray sweatpants. “Suggestive photos are just ‘thirst traps.’ Obsessing over your gym crush’s cute bod is just ‘thirst posting.’. “Twitter has developed a language around horniness that makes thirst less objectifying,” she wrote. Things are bad, and maybe getting worse! So it only makes sense that in the past 12 months alone, an aquarium had to apologize for calling one of its otters “thicc,” and people decided they wanted to have sex with a certain duck and a Pixar animated character, and also wished for Rachel Weisz to top them.Īt the Daily Dot, Ana Valens explored the phenomenon and how social media shaped it. To be fair, people have always been horny online that’s sort of a big part of being online.
Over the course of the past year or so, everyone got horny online.
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