Take a look around at choady Myspace or Facebook profiles and tell me I’m not right. When choads gather together for photographs, the shirts come off, the chins tilt up, the gang signs get thrown, and at least one person in the group flashes the Blue Steel. The irony of this would have me rolling on the floor laughing were it not such a tragic commentary on our times.

Remember Zoolander? Of course you do. He was beautiful, well dressed, charming, and one of the dumbest characters Hollywood has ever spit forth. And the film was a hilarious parody of the fashion and modeling industry, complete with drama, attitude, after parties, killer make up, superstar cameos, and an assassination plot to kill the prime minister of Malaysia. And Derek Zoolander, the creator of the legendary “Blue Steel” facial expression, was the painfully obtuse protagonist who was manipulated, cajoled, and corralled into being the fall guy in an evil scheme by the Fashionista powers that be.

So I wonder… am I the only one who finds it utterly hilarious that choads are imitating the lovable stooge’s facial expression in their photographs now? Do they realize they’re glorifying a character that was a specifically designed mockery of all the things they try to embody? Let’s go down some of Mr. Zoolander’s choady qualities:

Sound like any of the choads you know? I don’t want to crack on the character too much, as he did show some growth toward the end of the film, but I think it’s pretty safe to say that Zoolander IS in fact a choad. If you remember in the opening scene when the forces of evil are trying to select a model for their criminal deeds, they describe their subject as “a beautiful, self absorbed simpleton that can be manipulated and molded like Jell-O.” Sounds like a choad to me. And before you argue with me, think about the MTV culture of commercialism around us that has guys shaving their chests, hitting the tanning salons, and sporting clothing labels they can only barely afford. Choads really do want to be Zoolander these days don’t they? It’s more important to be beautiful and well attired than intelligent or talented.

Oh well. I get a giggle out of the fact that Hollywood made fun of pop culture and then, as if on cue, the masses picked it up and started celebrating the very thing Hollywood mocked.