Sad boy

You remember the sad boy of the early aughts, don’t you? Whether you knew him as an emo kid, a scenester or a shitty poet, the borderline-depressed boy with straightened shoulder-length hair and Saran-Wrap skinny jeans was omnipresent in American middle and high schools. The sad boys I knew were living incarnations of the Tumblr aesthetic, crushing on Prozac Nation’s Elizabeth Wurtzel while Drake’s “Marvins Room” blared through their headphones: “I’m just saying you could do better.” Although that particular slice of melancholia is about an ex, sad boys sang it to themselves, in the mirror. But amid a pandemic, the term “sad boy” (often also stylized as sad boi, in internet parlance) took on a more literal definition. NY Mag Approval Matrix. Lexapro, Klonopin, Celexa, Wellbutrin — internet-savvy twenty and thirtysomethings were suddenly trading personal medical information like holographic Pokemon cards. Perhaps ironically, many of these lonesome young men are now congregating on the internet to celebrate the one thing their shared identity tacitly rejects: a sense of community. Crypto bros are exchanging Wojaks and sad Pepe the Frogs every time the market crashes. Meet the Sad Boys Andrew, a 34-year-old hospital pharmacist, says that his “sad boy” identity was born long ago, as a Millennial raised in the Deep South during emo’s golden age. He worshiped My Chemical Romance and Dashboard Confessional’s MTV Unplugged set. He was often chastised for dying his hair black and b...

DEEP DIVE Sad boys can be musicians, skaters, Often used synonymously with “emo,” the difference between a “sad boi” and any other boy or man who is sad is that sadboys appear to lean into their emotions, channeling them to create art about their sadness or mental illness. In music, the term “sad boy” may refer to emo rappers like The phrase So how long are sad boi hours supposed to last? Getting a little worried about myself — Nesreen (@Nesreenmustafa_) WE GOIN EBOY OUTFIT TODAY BECAUSE ITS SAD BOI HOURS — sara ;; ia (@FAlRYJAEM) My soft boi hours turned into sad boi hours and I'm just — Kingu (@KingKaseii)