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What’s the Big Deal About Pedro Pascal?
The internet’s latest boyfriend
Right now, as a person of the internet/pop culture world, you might be wondering “Who the heck is Pedro Pascal, and why is he absolutely everywhere?”
Or you might be one of us *cough*.
The Pedro underground. The fans, or “stans” as the kids call it. The grown women (and men, and all of us, don’t get it twisted) making TikToks for their imaginary internet boyfriend.
The teenagers coming into their hormones going scorched earth across social media with endless inventive, addictive Pedro devotional content. Their obsession and desire knows no bounds. It starts out fun, it’s like a little club. There’s enough Pedro for everybody!
But before you know it you might find yourself exchanging Pedro messages with your only true confidantes in this illicit addiction, your fellow Pedro worshippers. I have mine, and we joke about it but also we worry. Is Pedro going to be ok with the pressures of this level of fame? Is it all too much?
You think you are alone, but you are not. Why is this admittedly adorable Chilean-born American so suddenly bringing all the heat for so many of us?
Why does a video of him joyously twerk-dancing with a “Clicker” (the infected mushroom zombie things from The Last Of Us!) make…
