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[–] cactus_head@programming.dev 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

This trend of yassifing/twinkyfing historical figures is weird

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago

Okay but Alexander was pretty indisputably a prettyboy.

Like, we didn't just invent twinks in the last century. I promise, they've been around.

[–] TrousersMcPants@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

It is, but in this case by all accounts Alexander essentially just looked like this