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.