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" \n  Let me begin by saying I&amp;#039;m from New York. I&amp;#039;ve seen a man in a chicken costume run down 47th Street clucking at 3 PM \u2014 every afternoon. I&amp;#039;ve seen rats the size of a small European country and old ladies doing shots of tequila at S&amp;amp;amp;M gay bars and people taking fancy dumps on the F train. I consider myself a &amp;quot;Live and let live&amp;quot; kind of human being. And yet, the rampant butt cleavage epidemic sweeping the nation \u2014 kind of like World War Z, but pale, sad crescents of lower buttocks instead of swarms of multi-ethnic zombies \u2014 astounds and befuddles myself and the rest of the Cosmo staff.    Is it a mating ritual of the Youngs that we don&amp;#039;t understand? Guys aren&amp;#039;t into it, if that&amp;#039;s the (extremely silly) reason. Esquire UK recently ranted against the trend, lamenting that &amp;quot;the human backside has looked perfectly fantastic while fully covered for hundreds of years now. Buy some bigger shorts.&amp;quot; Or are some girls actually not aware that their shorts don&amp;#039;t cover them entirely? It&amp;#039;s like having food in your teeth \u2014 embarrassing, but someone should tell you. Here, tie my sweater around your waist, youth of America.    A brief history of today&amp;#039;s butt cleavage, often displayed underneath high-waisted or mid-rise short-shorts: It first made its appearance from the top down, when low rise jeans came into fashion in the early 2000s.  We enjoyed a brief respite of relatively covered-up a*ses until this past May, when the reverse butt cleavage began appearing on celebrities like Rihanna, Miley Cyrus and Selena Gomez. Now that it&amp;#039;s hot as Hades, the trend has trickled down to American Apparel ads and, subsequently, the masses.   If you see something, say something.   Follow Anna on Twitter.   Images: [1] [2] [3] "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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