Looks like a Mad comic book spoof.....and not in a good way.
I’d like to think this cover is a man mocking the BBL-overdose on the DL. And it works if that’s the case. But of course it really isn’t mocking the BBL-obsession. Because to people like Will, to make light of these people— of these types of women, with such low and dangerous standards, is unfathomable. American pop culture is very much ghetto-centric/trailer trash-centric at the moment. Unfortunately, this lowest of common denominators is the reality of representation— not the very best talents of every race/creed/gender.
Will’s direction is utter garbage of course, but there’s this very much a Mad-tribute, deliberate or not, that’s very much the state and tastes of body dysmorphia obsessed of Americans: BBL and lip-filler-obsessed women that are represented in LOL OMG consumer dolls; boys addicted to PED supplements that they don’t even care that their entire body is carpeted with sever cystic acne; and morbidly-obese 400lb+ “activist” convinced that they’re just fine, that Sydney Sweeney is the problem. The clowns and the special ed children have taken over the asylum, so to speak. And this GQ reflects that standard.
The days of playful caricature, thoughtful parody, and still marinating in high fashion goodness of David LaChapelle are gone gone gone. Everything is so literal now lest the children not understand the joke and head to social to cancel Wil/GQ/Glen. The decline and fall of Western civilization is real, people.
(Not to single out Will, but every edition of GQ is trash. Have a gander at GQ India and South Africa, and American GQ actually begins to resemble art-troll Jeff Koon’s catalogue.)
