Gross response to Benny Blanco being featured in People’s Sexiest Man Alive issue

There’s been a totally cruel response to a particular star featuring in People’s 2024 Sexiest Man Alive issue.

OPINION

A-list music producer Benny Blanco is being trolled for featuring in People’s Sexiest Man Alive issue.

The 36-year-old is behind some of the 2000s biggest songs, from Maroon 5’s Payphone to Katy Perry’s Teenage Dream.

He has over 1.8 million followers on Instagram, but he has arguably gone from someone famous behind the scenes to just plain famous since he started dating Selena Gomez and went public with their romance in 2023.

In an interview with People about being one of the magazine’s sexy men for 2024, he gushed about his love for Gomez, noting that both of them being morning people has been a blessing.

“I have a true best friend that I get to do everything in the world with, and every day is the best day of my life,” he said.

Benny is a hugely successful producer. Picture: TheHollywoodFix.net / BACKGRID

Selena and Benny have been together since 2023. Picture: Amy Sussman/Getty Images

People have yet to announce this year’s ‘Sexiest Man Alive’, but people online got confused when they saw Blanco featured in the issue and thought he was the magazine’s sexiest man alive for 2024.

Bizarrely, despite the fact that Blanco doesn’t have a controversial past, nor has he been anything but extremely complimentary about Gomez, people claimed that he was undeserving of being described as “sexy” let alone the sexiest.

There’s some cruel commentary surrounding it, so much so that it doesn’t feel right to reshare, but the gist was grim.

People shared they thought it was a “joke” when they saw the producer snagged a spread in the iconic issue.

Someone else said the news made her “freak out” because she finds him “gross”.

Another said this was proof that “words don’t have meanings anymore”, and one claimed this was proof women “elevate” men too much.

It was nuts.

The response to Benny’s win was cruel. Picture: Instagram/SelenaGomez

He has over 1.8 million Instagram followers. Picture: Instagram/BennyBlanco

These are also some of the more tame nicer comments, and they’re are still enough to make most people lose all their self-confidence in one big swoop.

It’d be too far to say that the internet isn’t mean to women about their look anymore, because it is constantly.

Gomez recently clapped back at “sick” commentary about her body because people were making comments about her weight and claiming she looked “bloated” in some recent photos on her never-ending press tour for Emilia Perez.

An entire Reddit thread has been started about Blanco’s sexy title Picture: Instagram/SelenaGomez. Picture: Instagram/SelenaGomez

Gross comments about celebrities are often confined to niche parts of the internet, but an entire Reddit thread has been started about Blanco’s sexy title, and Twitter is full of memes about it.

There isn’t just trolls weighing in, but people think it is funny to make fun of the idea that Blanco could be seen as a heart-throb.

It is all incredibly grim and mean-spirited.

Finding someone sexy is pretty objective; surely anyone who has met their friend’s boyfriend or girlfriend has realised that.

But taking the time to troll someone about whether they are sexy or not, well that is a big choice and a gross one to be making in 2024.