The 1975’s lead singer Matty Healy has been terrorizing audiences all throughout their tour, much to fans’ delight. He’s been eating raw meat on stage, getting frisky with himself during instrumental breaks, and even making out with fans mid-song.
The latest stop in his enthralling path saw him engaging the front row in an even more intimate way. What’s more intimate than making out on stage in front of thousands, you ask?
How about sucking a stranger’s thumb in front of thousands?:
matty healy just sucked my thumb goodnight pic.twitter.com/z81y4nUvd6
— kayleigh (@kayyculffx) January 8, 2023
Kayleigh, the fan in question, went on to confirm the worst — this moment came after he’d already eaten the raw meat that night.
Related: Matt Healy comes out as “aesthete,” says he’ll kiss beautiful men but won’t have sex with them
A good dozen or so close-up angles of the moment are living on social media, each with every possible reaction you can think of attached to them.
The entire gamut of human emotion is contained within these replies:
He don’t got a single song where he needs to be doing all of this.
— changbin and johhny stan (@Localchangbin) January 9, 2023
be ready for alot of unknown diseases
— súsanna☾*⋆⎕ (taylor’s version) (@PARISAGAIN_) January 8, 2023
Girl I’m just gonna say it.. this is a win over the kisses
— ken ▯ (@morphsincerity) January 9, 2023
Me when the homie got some Cheeto dust on his finger: pic.twitter.com/8bRL1k11io
— thefiendbean (@GoodLuckBryan7) January 9, 2023
I still haven’t seen a single clip of Matty actually singing… Just meat eating and kissing…
— kcd (@KCD2523) January 9, 2023
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You gooooo thumbelina!!!
— notNOTfrede (@mariahasmth4u) January 9, 2023
Should have been me
— Velma Dinkley ⍟ (@velmas_glasses) January 9, 2023
shes never washing dat hand again pic.twitter.com/T67Zlg3kVw
— T ⋆｡° (@DMTFridge) January 9, 2023
girl go to the hospital https://t.co/2MesFIl4k7
— etsun is 103% ❦ ♭ (@radiorapjenlisa) January 9, 2023
Eww!
— Emily Sears (@emilysears) January 9, 2023
Thats so gross (i wish it was me)
— ⎕ ⎕ (@mattyscunt) January 9, 2023
Okay, a lot of it was disgust, but some of the girls want it BAD bad.
And why not? It seems to be working out for Kayleigh just fine. She just got a dedicated spot on BBC Radio 1 for a breaking firsthand account of the whirlwind moment.
Greg James got to the bottom of things:
the exclusive #the1975 thumb girl interview @gregjames got the answers to all the big questions from the owner of THAT thumb pic.twitter.com/cTaBgOHLiZ
— BBC Radio 1 (@BBCR1) January 10, 2023
Donston
We really don’t need an article every time he does something creepy or attention whore-y at a concert. While he’s not even a queer adjacent artist.
bachy
I’m pretty sure he came out as an “aesthete.” If that’s not queer adjacent I don’t know what is.
Donston
That’s a term his fans put on him, not an identity he publicly embraces. While even if he used that term, it has almost nothing to do with the dimensions of the gender, sexual, affection, romantic, emotion, relationship, commitment spectrum.
Doug
This must be a really slow day for Queerty. We’re watching a video of a guy sucking a woman’s finger and that’s considered to be gay news.
inbama
It wasn’t even hot.