Roxbury just made a joke about smooching me at the club later and posted a TikTok last week about the history behind “America’s first ever gay bar.” (He also has two Keith Haring tattoos.) They ask me who I think is the best dressed. When I ask who is the least hetero, however, they all look stumped - never mind the fact that Mr. Who’s going to black out first tonight, I ask? They all point to Nigel Roxbury, a strangely charming boy in a soccer jersey sitting next to me, who clarifies that he only “ browns out.” Who’s going to pick up a girl first? Also Nigel Roxbury (his nickname, they tell me, is “Phantom Smoocher” his real name is Chris Murch). | Okay, a few pitchers of sangria in and it’s time to figure out what’s really going on here. On the other hand, they all keep screaming “GABAGOOL” and “CHEF-BOY-AR-GEE,” and I’m afraid it’s going to last all night.ĩ:00 p.m.
#TIK TOK BOYS PLUS#
I find my seven boys - plus a couple of good-time girls along for the ride, which probably isn’t a bad idea - at a long table in the back. It is unbelievably loud inside, packed with 20-somethings slurping well-past–al dente pasta at tables heavily segregated by sex. | Of all the places you might consider for pregaming in the East Village, San Marzano, an Italian joint on Second Avenue perhaps most popular for feeding NYU students on a budget, is where the boys ask me to meet them. As the group “joke” goes, “We don’t get recognized in Brooklyn.”Ĩ:22 p.m. We’re all gabagool,” Villain Nigel Roxbury told me when I met them in … the East Village. (They love to start and end sentences with “Last weekend at Flower Shop …” or “… at Ray’s.”) “We’re all regular.
So on Friday night, I met up with the East Villains, who told me their name was originally that of their group chat, but then it supposedly caught on down at, you guessed it, Ray’s.
#TIK TOK BOYS FULL#
Think what you will about their Harry Styles–lite fashion sense, but something about their soft masculinity, silly outfits (see: cowboy hats, bandannas, bleached hair, silk scarves, painted nails, sleeveless tops, statement necklaces), and bulging arms and thighs full of patchwork tattoos really does it for me. They live on the Lower East Side or in the East Village and hail from places like Minneapolis, Hartford, and Jacksonville Beach. The East Villains spend their days posting tenderhearted video diaries of their charmed lives in New York City with captions like “ Weekend in the Life of a 26 Year Old in NYC,” in which they show themselves getting dressed (important because, you know, they start out undressed), meandering about downtown, going to work at their tech or fashion-adjacent jobs, skateboarding ( shirtless), wearing overalls (shirtless), getting tatted, and getting drunk. And so of course I was intrigued when I heard about a gang of TikTok bros in their mid-20s who have decided to call themselves the “ East Villains.” You’re probably not aware of them, but maybe you know the type. I’ve lived with them, I’ve been best friends with them, I’ve slept with them, and yes, a couple of them have fallen in love with me, too. I hate to admit it, but I have a soft spot for hard-drinking, blindly confident straight men.
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