Citations:sexyman

Noun: "(fandom slang) ellipsis of Tumblr sexyman"

 * 2021, Belle, "Tumblr Sexymen: A Never-Ending Cycle of Questionable Taste", LOCO Mag, 2 August 2021:
 * Wheatley would not reach the same fame as the sexymen that would come later, but he was still given the original sexyman treatment. He was given a universally accepted humanized form so that Tumblr users could feel okay about wanting to fuck a robot—a skinny white man with blonde hair and glasses.  My thoughts on Wheatley himself? None, he seems cool, I guess. My thoughts on him being a sexyman? I hate it.
 * 2022, Isaiah Colbert, "Good News, Undertale Fans: Toby Fox Just Wrote A Sans x Mob Psycho 100 Story", Kotaku, 8 September 2022:
 * Whatever’s in store, fans can rest easy knowing their lil skeleton guy [Sans of Undertale] is now the undisputed sexyman of Tumblr.
 * 2022, Joshua Wolens, "Toby Fox wrote a fanfic to explain why Undertale's Sans is the 'ultimate Tumblr sexyman'", PC Gamer, 15 September 2022:
 * It's… pretty involved, but it eventually turns out that the key to being a sexyman is not to be sexy at all—which is great news for me—and Reigen was brought low by his conventional attractiveness.
 * 2023, Gavia Baker-Whitelaw, "Tumblr users have voted on the ultimate Sexyman, and it’s Cecil from ‘Welcome to Night Vale’", The Daily Dot, 31 January 2023:
 * Ubiquitous on 2010s-era Tumblr, Sexymen are defined by their ability to inspire standalone fandoms. They range from mainstream figures (Marvel’s Loki) to characters whose appeal would baffle outside spectators (a talking clock; a pixelated skeleton; a Minecraft creepypasta entity). The more abstract Sexymen are sometimes redesigned by fan artists to resemble skinny white guys, echoing the most notorious Sexyman of all: The Once-ler from the 2012 Dr. Seuss movie The Lorax.
 * 2023, Carola Ríos Pérez, "TikTok's Babygirlification: Explained!", Her Campus, 2 March 2023:
 * The Tumblr Sexyman is believed to have started with the release of the Lorax movie, according to The Mary Sue. Their article on Tumblr Sexymen says that what makes a character a sexyman lies between being evil or a series of unique traits that separate them from being “normal”.