We got a first look at Ryan Gosling as Ken in Greta Gerwig’s upcoming Barbie movie. On June 15, the official Warner Brothers’ Twitter account dropped a sneak peek of Gosling in his acid-wash Ken garb. He’s dressed denim, his washboard abs on full display and his faux-Calvins are poking out. Predictably, the internet is awash in thirst.
If that description wasn’t clear enough, here’s the image for you to see for yourself.
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So, yes, the internet is thirsting over this. Big time. Like big, big time. In a way in which I cannot include some social media posts in this story because of the graphic nature of the memes. But the memes I can share are delightfully hilarious and thirsty.
Memes like this.
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And this.
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Or this.
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Let’s not forget this gif from Community.
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Uh oh, the internet is thirsting over Chris Evans again
Even the not-so-horny memes were funny, too. Like this Godfather yassification mashup.
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Or this Disney, denim observation.
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Or even this pretty common realization folks had about an old Scooby Doo actor.
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And this quite strange, wonderful Vecna meme I can neither unsee nor forget.
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Let’s not forget one of the original Gosling memes.
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Anyway, the new Barbie movie hits theaters on July 21. Margot Robbie will star as the titular icon in the film directed and co-written by Gerwig, whose previous works include Little Women and Lady Bird. So the odds of it being an instant classic are high, which bodes well for the future meme-ification of Gosling’s Ken.