In September, when Chris Evans accidentally shared a NSFW photo on his camera roll of a penis (presumably his own), the actor — in his first social media post after the inadvertent reveal —addressed the incident by making a plea to his followers. “Now That I have your attention … VOTE Nov 3rd!!!” he wrote in a tweet accompanied by facepalm and shoulder shrug emojis.
The post got 1.2 million likes. Evans, of course, was trying to turn lemons into lemonade. But a host of other stars are quite self-consciously using blatantly sexualized appeals to encourage voting and promote candidates and issues this election season.
There are the voting-themed thirst traps that Diplo, Michael B. Jordan, Jared Leto, Dave star Lil Dicky and Sterling K. Brown.
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