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What Happened To Men?
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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.
![Western Trad Comic Western Traditionalist @Western_Trad What happened to men? 4:17 PM · Aug 28, 2020 · Twitter Web App >](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/893/559/892.png)
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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).
![21st century photos Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig both of those photographs come from the twenty first century Western Traditionalist @Western_Trad · Aug 28 What happened to men? 10:14 PM · Sep 8, 2020 · TweetDeck](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/893/571/bef.png)
![dumb f--- Matt Post @MattPostSaysHi Guy on the left is from a show filmed in 2007 dumb f--- Western Traditionalist @Western_Trad · Aug 28 What happened to men? 10:36 AM · Sep 8, 2020 · Twitter Web App](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/893/584/baa.png)
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).
![Robin hood zootopia he @artboypolitico what happened to men 3:17 PM · Sep 8, 2020 · Twitter Web App](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/893/592/fe1.png)
![phantom angelina 8 @whyangelinawhy what happened to men? 10:37 AM · Sep 9, 2020 · Twitter for iPhone](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/893/600/e94.png)
Various Examples
![lucy Bill Corbett @BillCorbett What happened to men? si pepsi CA 11:04 PM · Sep 8, 2020 · Twitter for iPhone >](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/893/603/a0b.png)
![Jokers Unix Joker @unixjoker What happened to men 3:54 PM · Sep 8, 2020 · Twitter for iPhone](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/893/607/558.png)
![herbie, wall-e Zach Hurst @TheRLKing Replying to @9_volt_ @shaun_vids and @Western_Trad What happened to men? Her FULLY (OADED 53 WALL E 3:10 PM · Sep 7, 2020 · Twitter for iPhone >](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/893/610/526.png)
![deus ex Doctor Neutopia @oceanclub What happened to men? 1:33 PM · Sep 8, 2020 · Twitter Web App >](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/893/612/219.png)
![fred flinstone Adam Kushner @FolkSongMule What happened to men? 12:46 AM · Sep 9, 2020 · Twitter Web App](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/893/613/e46.png)
![It Sodaspider @Podna86 Replying to @Western_Trad What happened to men 8273 12:25 PM · Sep 7, 2020 · Twitter for Android >](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/893/614/e38.png)
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External References
[1] Twitter – @Western_Trad
[3] Twitter – @mattpostsayshi
[4] Twitter – artboypolitico
[5] Twitter – @whyangelinawhy
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