Twitter Pushes Back At Claim That Prince William Is World’s “Sexiest Bald Man”

People’s Sexiest Man Alive always generates a fair amount of arguments, no matter who takes the crown in a given year. Dealing with superlatives always does that, and that’s likely why such bold statements get made — after all, controversy creates clicks.

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But now there’s a new title that has people around the world scratching their, well, heads — World’s Sexiest Bald Man. And the winner, according to the research, is Prince William.

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Prince William is named the ‘world’s sexiest bald man’ according to a new Google study conducted by cosmetic specialists, Longevita.

The top ten results include Mike Tyson, Jason Statham, Pitbull, and more. pic.twitter.com/Z59POBHOwJ

— Pop Crave (@PopCrave) March 27, 2021

To each their own, but the idea that the future King of England is the sexiest bald guy on the planet isn’t exactly resonating with…anyone.

I’m sorry, but if Prince William weren’t a prince, he would not even be in the running for the sexiest bald guy at any given DMV on any given day.

— Josh Gondelman (@joshgondelman) March 28, 2021

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If you ever wondered whether these things were rigged….

Prince William has come off as a cad in recent weeks after the interview with Oprah, Duchess Meghan, and his brother with the perfectly coiffed red locks. Now all of a sudden, Stanley Tucci and The Rock don’t exist. https://t.co/3eyFNlqqA5

— April (@ReignOfApril) March 27, 2021

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Prince William being named sexiest bald man in the world raises some questions for me. Like which world? Where did the other men go? Why are they not there? Is it even safe to be there? Could u define “world”? Did you mean “castle”? Define “sexy” and “-iest”? Use both in a sente—

— Amy Aniobi (@janiobi) March 27, 2021

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And people offered up plenty of other suggestions for men who could easily take the title.

how is prince william the “world’s sexiest bald man” when pitbull exists????

— Emma (@emmalangevinxo) March 27, 2021

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Truthfully the “study” is a strange one, supposedly based on how many times bald celebrities were called “sexy” in blog posts that show up in Google results. 

It’s not immediately clear what the exact parameters are — if posts just had to be tagged with the term “sexy” and someone’s name, or if “sexy” very specifically had to be a descriptor of the person in question, and if there was any sort of quality filter to weed out posts that were tailored just to hit keywords that would make them pop up higher in the search results.

But we do know that this probably would have gone ignored if it hadn’t been picked up by The Sun, a UK-based tabloid that’s posted a number of articles painting Prince Harry and Meghan Markle in a bad light following their Oprah interview. 

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Though one Twitter user theorized quite compellingly that the whole thing was actually just a marketing ploy to get people to make fun of Prince William and his baldness to buy hair plugs from the cosmetics company that did the “study” in the first place.

It suits Longevita for Prince William to be top of the list, because Longevita offer hair transplants.

They want to:
1. Keep their name out there & get lots of mentions related to baldness.
2. Actually they do *not* want to position baldness as ‘sexy’.

— dan barker (@danbarker) March 27, 2021

So having Prince William & baldness being made fun of, rather than people swooning over photos of Jason Statham, or Stanley Tucci, or Bruce Willis makes good sense, and lots of people assume it is Palace PR, so take a jab at it & spread it further too. pic.twitter.com/j8Lpi6qKUu

— dan barker (@danbarker) March 27, 2021

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Summary:
1. A PR put out a badly researched piece to get Longevita in the news.
2. The Sun picked it up as it fits stuff they talk about.
3. The Independent nudged a bit of extra authenticity by calling it a ‘Google study’
4. They both ‘straight faced’ it, allowing criticism.

— dan barker (@danbarker) March 27, 2021

Outcome:
– Longevita got a bunch of mentions. (arguably they messed up a bit too, by not publishing the study on their site & picking up links)
– Some news sites made a bit of money from ads, & various people laughed at Prince William’s expense

— dan barker (@danbarker) March 27, 2021

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It’s almost like you can’t even trust anything you read on the internet!

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*First Published: March 29, 2021, 5:31 am