Shut It All Down: People Are Thirsting After ‘Venom’ Now

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The newest trailer for Venom dropped on Tuesday, and — unlike the previous trailer — this one showed Venom. Some of the reactions his appearance garnered were downright funny:

https://twitter.com/pattymo/status/988876040251592704

https://twitter.com/HelloCullen/status/988778743635365895

On the other hand, a dark but substantial part of the internet took one look at Venom’s gaping toothy maw and slimy tongue and said, “Yo, what that mouth do?

https://twitter.com/ilikecomicstoo/status/988587046406098944

The thirst is real. As Polygon and The Mary Sue point out, teratophilia (an attraction to monsters, deformed people, or monstrous people) is not a new phenomenon. Four years ago, we wrote about Virginia Wade, an author of “cryptozoological erotica” who was nailing down $30,000 per month in Amazon sales. Speaking of nailing (nailed that segue), we’re only scratching the surface of how much Tumblr users apparently want to nail Venom:

If you can’t read the text (You can view it full-sized here but why would you do that to yourself?), some of the highlights include:

  • “this is literally just porn”
  • “i’m not a monster f*cker but”
  • “him tongue is rlly Doing That”
  • “you’re really going to do this to me in front of god and everyone huh”

And then there are Tumblr posts like this one, making the argument, “I’ve been getting a lot of shit about how ‘first it was the clown now it’s Venom’ and I have to say how could you even put Pennywise and Venom in the same league Pennywise is an incel and Venom is a raw unfiltered Chad.”

It didn’t stop there.

https://twitter.com/ilikecomicstoo/status/988885639918735360

https://twitter.com/PatrickWeekes/status/989012290232975360

https://twitter.com/oodlenoodle_/status/988889582413516800

Via Twitter

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