I've got to say, there have been so many times this year when I have seen a non-satirical site post a story and wondered if it was an Onion headline. But this may be the first time that's happened regarding an article in GQ.

Isn't this exactly how we got into our current mess in the first place?

this is discrimination against my autistic balls (they are very sensitive to CBT style action)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codpiece hold up we need to go WAY back

I never left lmaooo you can have my skinny jeans when you cut them off my cold dead body!!!!!! also idk I never found other styles that looked good on me bc maybe I am secretly shaped weird or something, who knows.

I agree, whenever I try on jeans with even slightly flared legs I appear to double in size. I think snug fitting stuff also agrees better with my sensory issues.

I also never left! Never going back to the 90s “falling off me because if I buy for my thighs the waist is way too big and I can’t even properly wear a belt with them because my body just isn’t shaped that way” jeans

No.

I have thick thighs, every jeans is skinny

NFW

ITS NOT A PHASE MOM

Big woop I never left. Where's my GQ opt ed?

Might have some answering to do from Mr Guy: bsky.app/profile/diew...

Real men of Gen X will never

Never left.

no matter what they tell me, they will pry my black skinny jeans from my cold dead hands so i'm glad we are ignoring the propaganda!!!

A friend of mine said he could make any jeans look like “skinny” jeans 😂😂

So ugly. Just like 80s big hair, this will be looked at in the future with derision.

I feel like Severance being such a massive hit was the canary in the coal mine for hipster shit being back. Hit the Trump era with the Obamalaser. Vintage synth collectors unite!

This should be an Onion article

I refuse to submit. Reject Modernity, Embrace Tradition.

NOPE

😠

RIP my testicles yet again

Phrasing

You should try buying pants that fit, instead of buying children's pants and pretending to be something you're not

Ok Mr. Pants Police. Jesus christ, what emo kid pissed in your cheerios

That would be me. Except I’m 31. Emo never dies.

So you *shouldn’t* put on your big boy pants

Lol wat

Mine are very proud and look forward to being on display. Me? Less so; for the awkward moments and gazes.

NOOOOOOOOOO!

Some never took them off.

some of us never left. you can have my banana republic rapid movement denim when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.

Smiles in banana republic traveler skinny jeans

How is this the post that made me Jersey fist pump today? Who cares. THIS FOREVER

No, i refuse to ever ever ever go back to having the air supply to my balls cut off while half my ass hangs out

Absolutely not

I got some on accident and [tethered swimming.gif]

*looks at the result of riding bikes every day for 15 years as a kid* Yeah, nah

📌

"And I admit my frame—5’8”, about a buck fifty" Dude should just be saving money by shopping at Osh Gosh, Carters and Children's Place.

No

Noooooo, not my Achilles heel.

I’m happily living in a perpetual “Tokyo in Summer” wardrobe… and loving it

Been saving mine for just this occasion but they don’t fit anymore. 💀

What you all need to realize when you wear these, it totally emphasizes your lack of ass.

Dear God no

I never left.

Yuck

First: NOPE. Second: Not unless I can also go back to being 30.

Some of us never left

How did @theonion.com get an article in @gqmagazine.bsky.social ?! Congrats!

Any reason why to advertise skinny jeans in a grave yard?That is scary.😍

I’ve stuck with Slim or “athletic” taper since 2014ish Assuming I actually wear jeans anymore. It’s hot half the year so lots of shorts, and in the winter it’s so tempting to just wear fleece joggers for anything “non formal” Excited to drag the red wings off the shelf and stomp around come fall

Does this person have a manifesto or weekly service I can follow?

no!! (also low rise needs to never come back)

They can take my limited edition Charlton Heston JNCOs from my cold lanky legs

Fantastic news! 🎉🙌

@sarahlongwell25.bsky.social was just talking about skinny jeans this morning!

@timmiller.bsky.social

No we are not

Naw fam sweatpants and loose clothes for life. Yeah ill dress up for a special event then rip it off like the hulk as soon as it's over

I went back to Bugle Boys

are you saying that non-binary people are out of the loop?

There is a reason DSQUARED2 calls the fit Cool Guy

we never stopped, sir.

Absolutely not! I hate those days

unfollowed ):

I hastened this reversal in the spring by being talked into buying two pairs of “dad jeans” by my wife. Meanwhile, my very proud testicles are giddy about showing themselves, while the rest of me tries to avoid all the awkward moments and gazes.

Skinny jeans hurt my misters

Screw skinny jeans, give me my atomics!

Did I misread this or did he say they weren’t washable? That’s a big no for me!

Not that we ever left!

Nooooooooooo I just got comfortable to holding things in my pockets next thing we're going back to low rise I hate it here

Us fat people better stock up on tissues because the sad fit is back ☹️

No

We won't be back until these bad boys are the fashion.

this has to be a millennial-industrial complex psyop 😑

No, I refuse. As a member of the muscular calves crew, please stop doing this me.

Good lord. The slouchy ones are the only reason I willingly wear them at all. In general, the least comfortable garment I've ever put on, jeans.

This triggers flashbacks to all these years I couldn't get even 'loose' fit jeans over my legs. Those skinny dress pants were even worse.

Even the ones I could get on, at the end of the day it was like peeling a Weissewurst trying to get them off again. Free compression leggings, I guess?

I was so out of fashion until I wasn’t

From Gaza, we ask for your solidarity. Every help matters. Link in profile.😭

I never left

some of us never left

A lot of people who wear tight skinny jeans have never looked at themselves from behind in those jeans

Some of you have never lived in a walk‑up apartment, and it shows.

bah. get back to cargo shorts and stop wasting your time

our* time to shine! *guys with skinny legs and no ass

As a short-waisted slim woman with no bum, I have been waiting for this!

Someone doesn't know how to buy pants. You can just say it

nah, this is actually a trick i learned, where straight cut jeans look too big on me, but certain skinny jeans basically end up looking straight cut

Same

Skinny hairless legs, with no calf or thigh muscles, nor ass. Boot cut for life over here...

Gonna see how bad I muffin top now that I'm in my mid 30s

😬😬😬

We should just do one leg skinny, one leg wide so we can all keep up.

Pro tip: don’t fall for the younger generation trying to convince you you’re uncool. Still wearing ankle socks, because I’m not going to let people with broccoli haircuts wearing JNCOs in 2025 tell me what’s cool.

Does that hairstyle have a name (aside from broccoli)?

Apparently it’s also called the “Meet me at McDonalds haircut” in the UK. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broccol...

You can pry my ankle socks from my old dead feet

How dare you not want to wear foot coverings that are more likely to make you sweat and have a dumb tan when you wear shorts!

Bold of you to assume I am capable of tanning. 🤣

No, this will make me look like a muffin.

When you're actually skinny, skinny jeans fit like normal jeans for everyone else. I've got a healthy stash of indigo 510's so if they stop making them I'm good.

Gross. Lol. As an official 90s person, fabric touching skin = pants too damn tight. Give me a carpenter or cargo jean instead. In fact, I’ll even take Jncos over skinny jeans. As a middle-age fat guy, skinny jeans on me would resemble trying to stuff a Twinkie into a Capri Sun straw wrapper.

Cargo pants just mean you're a clown. Not a 90s person

* A comfortable clown. Enjoy your nut-huggers. Lol

Ok but you DID make me laugh so either clown or dad, which is it

I have never stopped wearing Levi's 505's.

in this economy? how tf is anyone going to shoplift in those?

I have a pair of baggy gap cargos that I love but all my other pants are 514 Levi’s, just normal straight leg.

Absolutely not. Classic fit jeans. Black band tee. Perfect fit. Fuck off.

Oh yeah!

Jeans are great if you like heavy, stiff leg wear…

Absolutely not

Terrible news for guys who have calf muscles

Grunge clothes without the music is just homeless chic

Skinny jeans never went away

They were just wearing larger jeans over the skinny jeans.

Certainly never in my mediocre white guy wardrobe.

moose knuckle is back just as summer balls are locked in

Sorry, but there are a lot of guys who should avoid skinny jeans.

did this happen because I watched "Wild at Heart" last night

BOOT CUTS FOR LIFE

Those are boot cut bordering on flare and I’m here for it

😂 oh thank you!!! I watched the British show “What Not To Wear” and they were religious about boot cut. Especially certain body types. I’ve only worn boot cut ever since.

Big ass, big rack, big feet—it’s boot cut!

Ok. To be fair, today’s skinny jeans are not the skinny jeans of old. Almost all of them have some kind of elastic fibers so fitting into them is not the same ridiculous ordeal it used to be. You can eat a burger and not split a seam.

i decided a long time ago that skinny jeans and hi-tops was my style forever. it feels amazing not chasing the zeitgeist; i recommend it!

But most importantly, pants that fit are amazing

AND WE ARE NOT ASHAMED!

Bingo !

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What a truly awful fashion era. Skinny jeans don’t look good on anyone and look horrible on males of all ages

it hilariously makes men with long skinny legs look like they have toothpick legs

I love my slim cut jeans, they fit my skinnier frame so much better. Don’t feel like I’ve got an extra acre of fabric Im lost in.

Wait what? The ladies of tiktok have convinced me my skinny jeans are peak uncool, are the tides finally turning?

There are Recession indicators everywhere for those with eyes to see

Dangit, I missed the JNCO comeback!

don’t tell… I never threw mine out. jeggings, get ready for fall.

Next is the side part.

My side part is going strong since y2k

I've worn a side part since 8th grade (1989).

Not going back! I burned those high-waisted torture chamber jeans, along with the unflattering (on anyone) huge leg jeans long ago. Mid-rise, skinny, with stretch were genious. Comfy and everyone looked good, tops in or out! Why would you mess with greatness?

I went over to leggings and I ain’t coming back

I gained weight in recent years and my regular jeans are skinny jeans on me me now. Does that count?

Yes. 👍

Oh gross, it was awful the first time, but at least then you could claim you didn't know any better.