Dating Burnout Is Real—and Here’s Why Black Women Are Feeling It the Most
glamour.comAmong the relics of 2024’s chaos was a phenomenon as absurd as it was telling: . It kicked off with a Timothée Chalamet contest in New York, which quickly snowballed into a full-blown global trend filled with Zayn Malik, Paul Mescal, Glen Powell, and Jeremy Allen White doppelgängers.Naturally, the Black community put its own spin on it.
Forget singling out one man—enter Brooklyn’s Black Heartthrob Look-Alike Competition. The flyer was a visual feast: Kofi Siriboe, Keith Powers, Denzel Washington, Jesse Williams, Childish Gambino, Skepta.
The unspoken ask was clear: “All the fine Black men, please stand up.”For single women like me, this wasn’t mere entertainment.
We wanted proof that somewhere in the murky, we’re all dog-paddling through, there might still be a man with a sharp jawline, charisma, and—dare we hope—the capacity to actually show up.Six men showed up.
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