Before the calendar flips and the ball drops to usher in 2026, I would like to hit pause and take a look in the rearview mirror.
2025 was a year of faces, fragments, and feelings. Of men caught mid-thought, mid-laugh, and mid-life. Of vintage stills stitched together into something new. The videos below weren’t just edits. They were mood boards, memory exercises, and love letters to masculinity in all its softness, strength, and style.
The “Top 10 Videos Of 2025” is a thank-you and a time capsule. These are the videos you watched, shared, rewatched, and reshared. Some surprised me. Some felt inevitable. All of them earned their place by connecting, resonating, and doing what I love most…turning visual fragments of our history into feelings and memories.
Alright. Let’s rewind and count them down:
#10 = LIT FROM INSIDE #1 (NSFW)
#9 = SUMMERTIME DAYDREAMS #1 (NSFW)
#8 = STRONG ENOUGH #2 (NSFW)
#7 = TO THE FRONT OF THE LINE #2 (NSFW)
#6 = TO THE FRONT OF THE LINE #1 (NSFW)
#5 = TAKE MY BREATH AWAY #1 (NSFW)
#4 = LIT FROM INSIDE #2 (NSFW)
#3 = BUNS + CAKES #1 (NSFW)
#2 = TRY A LITTLE TENDERNESS #1 (NSFW)
#1 = ALWAYS A PLEASURE #1 (NSFW)
Thank you for celebrating “The Male Gayze” with me and the COLLIDE PRESS Crew.
Keep calm and Happy New Year on!
Clint 🌈✌️
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PORTRAIT + QUOTE + VIDEO OF THE DAY
“Youth is seen as everything. You don’t know anything when you’re young. It’s great being older, just having a more balanced perspective. I wake up and realise that what seemed to be important last year no longer is. I’m increasingly grateful for every day.”
Val Kilmer
Happy New Year xx
Clint, I think I mentioned that as a teen, involved in puberty during the 50s and 60s, the wrestler/posing magazines, which didn't really show "anything", were my masturbatory sources. I wasn't so much attracted to them as it was that I WANTED TO BE THEM in my fantasies. Fun to see them again.
Fondly, Michael