Hey girl, drop everything and look at Ryan Gosling as a shirtless Ken doll

Life in plastic, it's fantastic.
By Tim Marcin  on 
ryan gosling with screenshot of tweet about him as ken
Gosling is Ken and some people really like it. Credit: Mashable Composite / Getty Images / Jeff Kravitz / FilmMagic / Screenshot: Twitter / @bashful_michael

We got a first look at Ryan Gosling as Ken in Greta Gerwig's upcoming Barbie movie. On June 15, the official Warner Brothers' Twitter account dropped a sneak peek of Gosling in his acid-wash Ken garb. He's dressed denim, his washboard abs on full display and his faux-Calvins are poking out. Predictably, the internet is awash in thirst.

If that description wasn't clear enough, here's the image for you to see for yourself.

So, yes, the internet is thirsting over this. Big time. Like big, big time. In a way in which I cannot include some social media posts in this story because of the graphic nature of the memes. But the memes I can share are delightfully hilarious and thirsty.

Memes like this.

And this.

Or this.

Let's not forget this gif from Community.

Even the not-so-horny memes were funny, too. Like this Godfather yassification mashup.

Or this Disney, denim observation.

Or even this pretty common realization folks had about an old Scooby Doo actor.

And this quite strange, wonderful Vecna meme I can neither unsee nor forget.

Let's not forget one of the original Gosling memes.

Anyway, the new Barbie movie hits theaters on July 21. Margot Robbie will star as the titular icon in the film directed and co-written by Gerwig, whose previous works include Little Women and Lady Bird. So the odds of it being an instant classic are high, which bodes well for the future meme-ification of Gosling's Ken.

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Tim Marcin

Tim Marcin is a culture reporter at Mashable, where he writes about food, fitness, weird stuff on the internet, and, well, just about anything else. You can find him posting endlessly about Buffalo wings on Twitter at @timmarcin.


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