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In the past 5 years, Hot Dudes Reading has become an internet phenomenon on its own with a whopping 1.2 million Instagram followers.
The creators behind the page are an anonymous group of 12 close-knit friends and young professionals from NYC who “never dreamed an inside joke about their borderline-inappropriate fantasies about studly bookworms would become an Instagram phenomenon,” according to a statement by Simon & Schuster.
Back on April 26, 2016, they released a 208-page book, Hot Dudes Reading, with a collection of candid photos, clever captions, and funny hashtags.
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In an interview with People, the group who deliberately decided to remain anonymous at all costs said that there are 6 heterosexual women and 7 homosexual men working behind the Instagram account.
While they’re not on Instagram, the group is busy with day jobs ranging from an intellectual property attorney to a social media strategist and an investment banker.
They also confessed none of them could have ever imagined what a stir Hot Dudes Reading would create. “We got 7,000 followers at [a birthday celebration] and we were all like, ‘Cheers—we’re gonna be famous!’” said an attorney in her late 20s.
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Another member of the group, a graphic designer, also said that it’s a universal human experience to look around, “especially in New York City, at the other people on the train and wonder what everyone’s lives are like.”
When it comes to snapping pics of hot dudes reading, the group confirms that none of them were staged. “Every single one of us has been caught taking a photo. I have 1,000 photos where the guy reading doesn’t notice, but the person next to him does,” they told People.
To date, Hot Dudes Reading features 510 carefully selected eye candies reading books like Harari’s “Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind,” “UFOs? Yes!” and “What Should Be Wild?”
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