This month’s viral trend of choice has been ‘He’s a 10 but…’, a pretty simple but hilariously judgemental concept. It involves people ranking their attraction to an imaginary love interest on a scale of one to 10, with a dealbreaker trait causing this to increase or decrease. 

You’ve got a gorgeous mate who’s 10 out of 10 in the looks department, but his mum still washes his clothes for him. He’s a 10 but he takes 5 days to answer a text. You get the gist.

In other words, the trend’s basically saying that someone can be as good looking as they want, but if there’s even just one lame red flag to go with it, it’s a big fat no.

It first took off on TikTok, obviously, but has since spread to the rest of social media. Many made it into a group activity, especially on TikTok, adjusting an imaginary partner’s final score out of 10 on the attractiveness scale based on their ‘but…’ dealbreaker traits.

Elsewhere, some people got very creative with the concept, like this incredible Twilight version by @ladyefron: “He’s a 10 but he’s impossible fast and strong. His skin is pale white and ice cold. His eyes change colour, and sometimes he speaks like he’s from a different time. He never eats or drinks anything. He doesn’t go out in the sunlight.” Edward Cullen was truly  a walking red flag.

Others got meta, referencing previous iconic internet jokes: “She’s a 10 but she asks you if you’d still love her if she was a worm.” Just incredible.

Before the internet moves on to the next viral trend to pass the hours away in July, we thought we’d compile some of the funnies examples of ‘He’s a 10 but…’ below. Prepare to be ‘seen’, people. Prepare to take a long hard look at yourself in the mirror.

https://twitter.com/faizaan_v/status/1538909943964868609?s=21

https://www.tiktok.com/@frenchtoaststick2/video/7113378054742969646?is_copy_url=1&is_from_webapp=v1&q=he%27s%20a%2010%20but&t=1656563583551

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