What Happened To Men?

About

What Happened To Men? refers to parodies of a tweet by @Western_Trad evidently bemoaning the feminization of men by comparing pictures of Don Draper from Mad Men and the Pajama Boy from an infamous Obamacare advertisement. Parodies usually involve using humorously exaggerated depictions of men from various sources of media.

Origin

On August 28th, 2020, Twitter account @Western_Trad^[1] posted pictures of Don Draper and Pajama Boy, asking "What happened to men?", apparently bemoaning how masculinity has become softer in recent years. The tweet gained 502 retweets and 3,300 likes, as well as 690 quote-tweets as people mocked it.

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The tweet was mocked as people pointed out that both images were recent, as Mad Men was a 21st-century show about the past. User @ebruenig^[2] pointed that fact out, gaining over 90 retweets and 3,400 likes (shown below, left). User @MattPostSaysHi^[3] did the same, gaining over 40 retweets and 1,100 likes (shown below, right).

Other users parodied the tweet by using the same caption but posting humorous depictions of masculinity. For example, user @artboypolitico^[4] posted pictures comparing Disney's Robin Hood with Zootopia's Nick, gaining over 700 retweets and 4,000 likes (shown below, left). User @whyangelinawhy^[5] posted a comparison between two versions of The Phantom Of The Opera, gaining over 260 retweets and 1,100 likes (shown below, right).

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