75 Hot Guy Things From The Early 2000s

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Guys who lost the battle with their flat iron:

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Guys with this “bangs for days” haircut:

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Guys who took style cues from Ronald McDonald:

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Guys who were so concerned with bike safety that they wore reflective clothing:

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Guys who wore suggestive graphic tees:

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Like, this was kind of filthy:

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And bonus points if the guy had one of these Spencer’s shirts:

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Guys who wore hats they won at a local traveling carnival:

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Any guy with a bowl/mushroom cut:

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Guys who were extremely patriotic:

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Guys who weren’t afraid to expose a tit or two:

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Guys who wore fedoras they got as part of a mob costume they bought at Party City:

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Any guy with aggressively spiky, gelled-up hair:

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ESPECIALLY guys with spiky tips that were frosted:

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Speaking of “hot guy haircuts,” we had this one:

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And this one:

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Guys who weren’t afraid to show a little cleavage:

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Guys with extensive knit beanie collections:

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Guys who just kind of always looked upset:

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Guys who made this exact face in every picture:

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Guys with eyeliner tears:

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Just, like, John Mayer’s singing face:

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Guys with an affinity for women’s underwear:

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Cowboys:

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Guys with flashy, large coats:

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Guys who, yeah, IDK, dressed like this:

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Guys who wore shirts that provided some sort of optical illusion:

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Guys who had cool, fancy phones:

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Guys with the fresh-out-of-the-shower or haven’t-showered-for-days look:

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Guys who dressed like they were going to their 10th grade homecoming dance:

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Guys who were willing to couple coordinate:

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Guys with thermals under short-sleeve T-shirts (but especially graphic tees) and polos:

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Guys who were really into their bedazzler:

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Any guy wearing this exact “going out for the night” outfit:

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Also, any guy with this fit:

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Guys who wore corduroy newsboy caps:

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Honestly, most of Aaron Paul’s mid-’00s wardrobe was considered “hot, quirky guy” attire:

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Guys who wore matching track suits without shirts under them:

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Any guy who wore beaded and shelled necklaces — preferably puka:

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Guys with *the* Ryan Cabrera haircut:

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Guys who were really good at making dramatic hand movements in matching velvet suits:

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Guys who liked to hang out piled on top of each other with their stuffed animal collections:

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Guys with heavily manicured chin straps:

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Also guys with facial hair fashioned after devil horns:

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Guys with eclectic cowboy hat collections:

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Guys with itty-bitty teeny-tiny soul patches:

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Guys who got a little too into the messy, gelled hair thing:

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Guys wearing ties almost as if they were large necklaces:

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Guys with cute lil’ faux hawks:

Extra bonus points if they were frosted:

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Guys with chewed up, shredded up turtlenecks:

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Any of the guys who had to stand shirtless outside an Abercrombie in the mall in distressed bootcut jeans or baggy cargo pants:

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Guys who took pictures pretending they were crouched over in serious pain:

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Guys who are very proud of their social justice initiatives:

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Guys with pants that were so long they literally dragged on the ground:

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Just, like, anyone with a British accent:

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Guys with felt fedoras:

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Guys with these New York City T-shirts:

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Guys who wore Band-Aids as accessories:

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Like, there wasn’t a cut under that adhesive:

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Guys who dressed in their grandparent’s old drapes:

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Cool rocker dudes:

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Radical men:

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Farm boys:

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Guys who dressed as adult-sized marionettes:

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Guys who had an affinity for snow suits even when it wasn’t snowing:

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Any guy with a sexy bandana:

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Guys who moonlight as clowns:

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And finally, literally any guy who worked at Hollister and rocked weirdly, almost green-tinted distressed jeans with Hollister logo tees: