The Internet is a strange place. And the most recent absurdity has been the term “rodent hot”. You know, the ones with beady eyes, more svelte than muscular with pinched, angular features, and messy hair.
They are not conventionally handsome, but that is exactly what makes them more desirable. And, as the spectrum of rodents is wide, a man could be a rat, a beaver, a hamster, or even a capybara. GenZ is swooning over this hyper-specific type, calling these rodent-handsome men the hot boyfriends of the season.
It started with a tweet that compared Challengers (2024) co-stars Josh O’Connor and Mike Faist to Roddy St James, the rat from Flushed Away, and Stuart Little, respectively. In the Indian context, celebrities including Rajkumar Rao, Kartik Aryan, Siddhant Chaturvedi, Babil Khan, or even Ibrahim Ali Khan could all be considered hot rodents. Their angular features coupled with unkempt hair and a slender physique make them.
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ADVERTISEMENT It all started when Dazed, a digital publication headquartered in London and New York, made up the terms “hot rodent man” or “hot rodent boyfriend” or “hot rat summer”. Thanks to the unique times we live in, it snowballed onto the Internet comparing men to rodents, the new version of comparing men to golden retrievers. But who are these rat men and should you be scurrying away from them? On the contrary, fans of hot rodent men argue that a celebrity’s charm comes from the rodent qualities.
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