#that fucking geico gecko

[dncingthrghlife]

do you feel confident in your own skin with dove 48hr lotion-infused antiperspirant? do you feel sassy and sexy with all that you saved while wearing that blouse from tjmaxx? do you feel grateful for all that you get with tmobile? fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. do you know you can get (almost) anything with uber eats (availability and conditions apply)?

#long sigh #this is the bad place #literally #every commercial i got during an ad break #jokes on them #i don’t care #but it is mindnumbingly repetitive #that fucking geico gecko #now for obligatory tags #capitallist hell #late stage capitalism #commerical #commericalism

[darubyprincx]

if you put this guy and zedaphplays behind the same mic i wouldn't be able to tell who was talking

#ray's tag #mcyt #zedaphplays #zedaph #geico gecko #described #And I'm Not Fucking Kidding. #zedaph should do a spoof car commercial for a hermitcraft episode it fits his vibe i think he'd do great #get a cursed gecko skin in the mix and you have an instant zlassic (zedaph classic) #im manifesting it for season 10 or 11

[nosleep83]

Sharing this voice over @wingstobetorn sent me on discord cause I genuinely believe the entire fandom should see it reblog to share the news of its existence

ALSO HERES THEIR PROFILE GO FOLLOW THEM!!!!!!!!

#ITS PEAK COMEDY AND ME AND THE HOMIES ARE QUOTING IT FOREVER #‘I DREAM ABOUT FUCKING EVERY NIGHT!!!!!’ #‘maybe if we show them our feet they’ll love us…?’ #‘HOW DID I END UP WITH A BIG DICK⁉️⁉️⁉️’ #‘I think it’s those strippers that work in Times Square. yk the mascots? yk the geico geckos!’ #tmnt #mutant mayhem

[larrythefloridaman]

been working on the ol design hitlist again! had a GOOD time with these

#cpu kerfuffle #cpuk regal salad #cpuk carrot collective #cpuk t.o.m. #cpuk visible man #cpuk geico gecko #cpuk pixel #cpuk garfield #had a lot of fun with these. salad's head is an endive and his body is fuckin. radicchio #weird carrot gnomes with shadowed faces like one of them final fantasy mages #tom the perpetually motion lined novelty marshmallow #i tried to jojo's fashion a dog to the best of my ability #and made a scary fucking garfield to the best of my ability without going FULL r/imsorryjon about it #and then theres gecko. hes plain and normal but hes not trying to be much else #visible man being the leopard print snake is smthn thats special to me. i think his wedding invites were patterned like a guy fieri shirt. #i think his fashion sensibilities wittle down to #tacky patterns and camp all the way down. animal print and fake feathers and shit #and of course i was careful to emphasize his fully canonical thunder thighs #designing less notable characters is fun i can simply go apeshit and run with stuff that seems right based on their limited lore <3

[ventussolder]

Was captain obvious ever a tumblr sexyman, I feel like he would be, fits the criteria

#text #if the fucking geico gecko can be one then

[kittykatinabag]

This Ruzader idea popped in my head on one of my multiple bus misfortunes of my trip. It's been a long time since I actually sketched a thing instead of just slapping colors and marks on paper. I forgot how hard sketching is...

The main inspiration for the form was a combination of the Coast Horned Lizard (Phrynosoma coronatum), desert reptiles in general, geckos/salamanders/other reptiles that lose and regenerate their tails, the Iguana Parrot from Avatar, and the Izuchi monsters in Monster Hunter Rise. For the colors I tried to stay in similar families to Ruze's hair colors, crimson, and what wouldn't be completely out of place in the environment of the Badlands.

I tried to stay away from overly dinosaur-like features (because I assume Jurard's going with that theme for the Sorawrity (or however the fuck you spell that)) as well as steering away from axolotl features because of the Axelotls. I didn't add it but I also imagine each Ruzader wearing their own unique mask and scale coloring, similar to how the Koipanions are all different colored and have different hats sometimes (sans Puniko).

It's far far too late right now to add what I hand wrote in the pic but I might come back to this in a few days to type it out here since idk if my handwriting is easy to read for those who have English as a second language and rarely see native handwriting in the wild.

Below the cut I'll post some progress pics from when I was inking and painting the colors, as well as a pre-colored version. Also if anyone is better at art, feel free to recreate this concept to look more badass-cute like I initially intended but failed to fully execute on. Just like don't be a dick and credit the idea at least.

Okay this is the actual concept sketch as I was (suffering) in a bus that was breaking down on the side of the road. I think this guy's such a cute little thing despite how crudely it's sketched via my pointer finger.

Pre-color version! Easier to read text since I took this during the day and lighting was better.

I want to draw your attention to the "waterproof on paper" claim on this inking pen 😒

First colors laid down!

This was about the point when my wrist started hurting from dotting the watercolors so precisely and I regretted every painting decision I made here. But I'm still not confident enough in my control over watercolors (especially in this definitely-not-watercolor-paper sketch book) to just wash and glaze the colors.

And here's the supplies I used. From top to bottom:

Staples postscript 0.7 mechanical pencil

Random fine liner paint brush I bought. I think the bristles are natural hair but no idea what animal.

Sharpie S-pen 0.5

Staedtler pigment liner 0.2

Kuretake waterbrush fine version

Faber-Castell watercolor pencils in deep scarlet red, bistre, dark red, and nougat

Kuretake Gansai Tambi gouache-ish watercolors 12 color set 2 (they're kind of in-between gouache and watercolors idk they're Kuretakes, if you're familiar you're familiar). I used the colors neutral beige (11), rose beige (12), indian red (71), maroon (72), and gray (21).

Thanks for reading this far if you did! This was fun, but it's 3:30am right now and I need to sleep so I can panic-pack my stuff tomorrow morning before checkout to return from my trip.

#ruzaders #crimzon ruze #crimzonmuze #look i didnt mean for it to vaguely resemble the geico gecko's cousin from the desert but fucking hell its all i can see now

[interstate40]

It would give me great joy to get my hands around any insurance company spokeperson's throat and just fucking wring it

#flo. geico gecko. limu emu and doug. the rest of the progressive crew #just wanna strangle and strangle and strangle #insure that you irritating fucks

[stone-stars]

Transcript:

Caldwell: Um, I guess the funniest one is probably the, uh, Sonic the Hedgehog reboot for the Xbox 360, uh, Sonic 2006-- Murph: Oh, is that when he falls in love with a human woman? Caldwell: Yeah, that's the one where he falls in love with a human woman. Murph: Wow. Caldwell: Mhm. Emily: Woah, that happened in 2006? Caldwell: In 2006, Sonic-- Emily: In the 2000s, everyone wanted women to fuck cartoons and animals! Caldwell: (laughing) Right. We just wanted-- we were just desperate for anything! Emily: Like, that's like all that advertising was. All of advertising was just like, a woman flirting with like a... Murph: A gecko. Emily: A gecko. Or, a pig, or-- Murph: Oh, what is that-- yeah, who is that pig for? Was that an-- That's an insurance pig. Caldwell: Yeah. Um, also Geico. Murph: That's a Geico pig. [Caldwell: Yeah.] Yeah, he's always like flirtin' with ladies and like, stealing girlfriends. Emily: Or like, I feel like, like Chester Cheeto-- that's probably more 90's, but I feel like Chester Cheeto was like, pretty-- Caldwell: God, I would give anything-- Murph: Chester's always getting friend-zoned. Caldwell: I would fucking give anything to be cucked by Chester Cheeto. [Murph laughs] Emily: Oh my god, just like, wearing his sunglasses while he did it. Murph: Awh. Caldwell: Mhm. Good-- Great work. Emily: So, like, his head would be tilted at you but you wouldn't even know if he was making eye contact with you or just staring at your fucking gorgeous loving wife. Caldwell: And not-- and not reboot Chester where they made him British. Fuck that! Murph: Alright. Um-- (laughs) So, what the fu-- what were we talking about? Caldwell: Ten minutes in! Murph: (laughing) Before getting cucked by Chester Cheeta? [Emily and Caldwell laugh.] Murph: Alright, uh-- Rotor is in the jail cell-- [Emily coughs.] Murph: Oh boy. Caldwell: Emily's dead! Murph: Emily you alright? [Silence, followed by Emily coughing harder.] Murph: (deadpan) Hang in there. Uh oh. Caldwell: Keep reading! It's the only thing she wants! Murph: Oh, okay, uh-- (reading) "Rotor was a member of Princess Sally's brave band of freedom fighters--" [Clip fades out.]

#8 bit book club #naddpod #emily axford #brian murphy #caldwell tanner #8bbclips #obsessed with the way caldwell says Human Woman #and also em just dying

[roadhogsbigbelly]

i think the concept of "tumblr sexyman" as like a genuine phenomenon was killed when people online thought it been funny to assign completely random characters on tumblr sexyman wikis or tiers lists to shock their friends, because the authenticity is gone. i can't tell if people actually want to fuck the geico gecko or if you just wanted to be quirky.

[chaifootsteps]

Did you know Richard Steven Horvitz was briefly the voice of the GEICO Gecko in the early '00s?

https://youtu.be/nlo_aCHI8DQ?si=mKtht19-_fWvjC1R

Holy fuck, I remember these airing! This was back when I still really liked Richard Horvitz, so it made me super happy whenever they came on. How times change.

#Anonymous #actual blog post

[vilebird]

too late, revelation, too late

dream, roar // better off, roe kapara

temporary job, minnie bruce pratt

xzibit yo dawg meme 'whats my fucking problem'

guilty, georges bataille

goldfinch nocturne, roar // better off, roe kapara

20/07/2016, @.inkskinned

breeding stud game over screen lmfao

the old catcher considers the failing of his knees, devin kelly

last words of a shooting star, mitski // the kite runner , khaled hosseini

can't find again // can't find again

seventeen going under, sam fender

to die for, carol lee // liability, lorde // laika, ben florin

the bomb, florence + the machine // h of h playbook, anne carson

wolf or-7, natalie diaz // 02/13/2022, @.ojibwa

geico gecko meme

so we must meet apart, gabrielle bates + jennifer s cheng

post on here i can't find again // giovanni's room, james baldwin

please be patient i have autism hat riff // spring, mary oliver

#i have to be facetious about this or the weight of being a moron will make me throw up #web weaving #poetry #quotes #litstack #personal #this is going to be incomprehensible to the average person ig #roar band #roe kapara #minnie bruce pratt #devin kelly #mitski #khaled hosseini #sam fender #carol lee #lorde #ben florin #florence + the machine #anne carson #natalie diaz #gabrielle bates #jennifer s cheng #james baldwin #mary oliver #posting this mostly for me ig i might turn off reblogs to keep it at 0 #there is a story here but im not telling you it

[unknownarmageddon]

"you ain't as cool as the geico gecko" this song is giving me life

i’m crying

#/silly/silly #Legitimately it kinda goes hard but also I’m. Losing it BAHA /pos #answering asks #chair!! #Chair asks

[cesium-sheep]

dream about a roommate I'd only moved in with recently needing an extreme fake dating scenario because her partner left her for her sister the day before the wedding, I was unclear which of us was taking the actual wedding slot it kinda drifted around and she asked me very last minute, like as I was about to leave from accompanying her downtown, but by god if we were doing this we were gonna fucking do this. the geico gecko was the officiant. I was quietly asking her what genre of vows she wanted from me.

#dream

[hypotheticalpeople]

boy who wants to be fucked by geico gecko

#submission

[megaminds-megamilkers]

A dissertation on the taxonomy of the Tumblr Sexyman

Evil or morally ambiguous in their source material, they bring a certain trill factor that stimulates fan interaction

Originates from an unexpected piece of media that did not primarily cater to female sexual fantasy. True Sexymen are made, not born.

Sexymen stand on their own; the primary fan focus is not on a specific ship pairing or the media the character came from but rather easily consumable content of the character

Character design warped and personified through fanart to unrecognizability, often more popular than faithful reproductions

Deviation from canon characterization not a concern and frequently encouraged

More than a one-off joke, must have a dedicated following

Consider the Lobster Mushroom (Hypomyces Lactifluorum)

Stay with me, a parasitic fungus that colonizes mushrooms, typically of the genera Lactarius, and Russula, these host species are similar in form with some distinguishing feature, but once colonized by H. Lacfifluorum, those features are destroyed and the resulting specimen is transformed into the Lobster Mushroom. Likewise, the host species of T. Sexyman may vary, what distinguishes them as Tumblr Sexymen is their resulting fandom behavior.

*The scientific name of this species has been designated as Tumblr Sexyman, I considered alternatives like T. Lagnos hominis or Tumblri Seximan but decided to prioritize clarity

Notable examples of T. Sexyman presented in chronological order:

* These specimens were chosen based on my own experience of Tumblr during the Sexyman era, there may be some oversight on characters that did not frequently appear in my sphere of activity but I have done my best to curate a representative sample

Jeff the Killer (2008)

Originating outside Tumblr yet possessing all the traits to qualify as the first popularly recognized Tumblr Sexyman.

More emphasis on fanfiction than many others of the species, but the fanart interpretations of the original low resolution image played an integral part in his classification as a member of T. Sexyman

Loki (2011)

The only live action character I included in this list, this specimen demonstrates more T. Sexyman traits than its contemporaries

lacking a clear romantic relationship in cannon, fans felt free to remove him from the surrounding cast and put him in different scenarios

Onceler (2012)

Brought the concept of Sexyman to Tumblr and the wider internet’s conscience through unavoidable saturation of the blogging sphere and introducing novel ideas such as “self-cest”

An entire ecosystem sprung up of bloggers roleplaying various versions of the Onceler, entirely separated from the Lorax movie The most quintessential example of a T. Sexyman specimen

Bill Cipher (2012)

Perhaps the most egregious example of twinkification amidst fierce competition

In the field, I observed far more people dressed as the Sexyman version rather than following traditional approaches of cosplaying an object à la Tardis dress or cardboard recreation

The fucking clock guy I guess (2014)

Much smaller cultural footprint than the others but with a persistent passionate fanbase, one of few qualifying examples out of similarly cited entries like the Geico gecko and the man in the yellow hat that only exist to shock outside observers

The first autofill result when I went to google DHMIS because I did not remember his name was “human Tony”

Sans Undertale (2015)

The undeniable impact left by this specimen on the Tumblr ecosystem and the fact that the T. Sexyman evolution of this character also thrives on the wider internet alongside those that adapted to different social media ecosystems mark him as defining figure of the species.

It was actually quite difficult to find humanized fanart that fit the conventions of the time, but there is plenty of alternate universe self-cest characteristic of the species T. Sexyman

Official winner of the 2022 Tumblr Sexyman contest

Hazbin Hotel (2019)

Due to the sometimes unpredictable process of T. Sexyman parasitization, this is one of the only examples of successful commercial cultivation of the species

Entering the Tumblr ecosystem during the decline of T. Sexyman populations, it still garnered a substantial fandom

Notes on Taxonomy

The following examples are characters frequently classified as Tumblr Sexymen that I believe lack certain defining features to positively identify them as specimens of T. Sexyman. However, there is debate on how broad the definition of Tumblr Sexymen should be, and there are some interpretations that could lead to the inclusion of these characters. For now, I have designated these individuals as an as yet unidentified member of the genus Tumblr, due to the notable impact of their presence on the platform during the same time period as the boom of the T. Sexyman population.

Severus Snape (1997-2007)

A classic example of the misunderstood loner archetype which has existed long before the proliferation of the Tumblr Sexyman

The majority of the fanwork does not separate him from his original context of the Harry Potter universe, and much shipping is done with other HP characters

Snape Wives (Snapeists), a group of women who formed a cult around the fictional character that they believed to be a deity who existed outside of and before the books, created a microclimate quite different from where T. Sexyman thrive, leading me to believe this particular specimen has made some evolutionary adaptations that set him apart from T. Sexyman

Supernatural (2005)

Rather than the type of transformative work characteristic of T. Sexyman, the vast majority of Supernatural’s presence on tumblr consisted of aggressive infection of unrelated posts with GIFs, spreading the fandom throughout the entire Tumblr ecosystem and occupying a different ecological niche

While fans certainly found the characters sexy, at the time, the main focus was shipping and not character specific fandom

Hannibal Lecter (2013)

The only thing that came close to the insanity of the Onceler fandom, there were endless iterations of Hannibal characters, most notably as every obscure character played by the same actors, and mythological creatures of every stripe

Hannibal Lecter fits nearly every T. Sexyman identification criteria except for one, He is inextricable from Will Graham, who is not a Tumblr Sexyman but a proto-poor little meow meow

The elusive Tumblr Sexywoman

The proliferation of T. Sexyman as a species was due to the overabundance of wild creation and consumption of transformative fan content, largely attributed to young women whose attention and energy were focused on sexy men. There are also fewer examples of chaotically evil female characters in popular media similar to the host characters that typically become T. Sexyman, though the ones who did fit the bill were popular among small sapphic circles like Doctor Olivia Octavius and Eda the Owl Lady. Notably, the most popular Sexywomen, or rather, the only ones who qualify as T. Sexywoman, are all MILFs, including Lady Dimitrescu who migrated from Twitter and immediately adapted to the new climate.

Branch evolutions of T. Sexyman

In the year 2022, wild populations of T. Sexyman are near extinct. Though many nostalgia blogs and meme pages have successful captive breeding programs, reintroduction has been largely unsuccessful due to changes in the Tumblr ecosystem. Descendants of T. Sexyman have now evolved to fill new ecological niches, with the most notable species being T. Normie, T. Meowmeow and T. Babygirl.

My poor little Meow Meow (T. Meowmeow)

A Poor Little Meow Meow is a character that is pathetic, beaten down by their narrative and generally struggling who nevertheless continues on, not through some intrinsic optimism or determination, but because of a combination of pride, hubris and responsibilities outside their control.

Fans delight in their response to misfortune with a kind of detached, morbid curiosity whether watching their struggle elicits pity like one feels for a shivering wet chihuahua or an uncontrollable lust.

Fanwork often focuses on depicting their lowest points and creating new scenarios for them to suffer through for comedy as often as drama.

T. Meowmeow could be conventionally sexy if they were not who they are or in their situation, that fans prefer them as they are is a defining feature of the species

Unlike T. Sexyman, when T. Meowmeow are sexualized, fans tend to act out emotional conflicts through them rather than see them as an idealized romantic partner

While T. Meowmeow favor male hosts, it is much more gender neutral than T. Sexyman, this adaptability has allowed T. Meowmeow to survive and thrive outside of its native habitat.

He’s my Babygirl (T. Babygirl)

Mutation of previously adjacent species to T. Sexyman

Change in fan reception of long-established characters in the Tumblr ecosystem

Applied to characters that embody masculine ideals to a pathological degree, instead of hitting hypermasculinity, they circle around and come off with a queer slant

Beginning as an ironic movement, T. Babygirls have gained genuine fans whether those people had a connection to the source material beforehand or not

Thank you for scrolling so far, please leave me any feedback you have on my classifications

#long post #tumblr sexymen #mycology #sans sweep #poor little meow meow

[girlblocker]

umm i thought the geico gecko was a weird fucked up frog. until high school