This is what you should know about the hawk tuah trend

If you have seen the phrase ‘lucky hawk‘or seen memes With it, you probably spend a lot of time on the Internet and have wondered about its origin. Here we tell you How did the phrase come about?originally in English and supplemented by a ‘spit on that thang (thing)‘, went viral in the United States in mid-June, specifically starting on June 11.

The entire movement comes from a spontaneous interview, captured in a video that to date has more than nine million views and hundreds of versions. As the days have passed, it became a viral phenomenon, especially due to the interest generated by its inventor, whom the internet nicknamed Miss Hawk Luck. The girl’s elusive identity has generated an additional dose of morbidity, because many unproven theories have emerged since then.

What’s that hawk tuah spit on that thing?

Lucky hawk It is an onomatopoeia, that is, the imitation of a sound. And it all came about when a couple of youtubers, Tim and Dee TVthey published a reel where they asked women what was the action in bed that drove men crazy. A young blonde, using the classic American southern accent, gave an explicit response.

The woman interviewed, who was on the streets of Nashville, Tennessee, responded ‘Oh, you gotta give the hawk tuah spit on that thing’, making a gesture that imitated spitting, causing laughter and gestures of surprise, mainly from another woman who accompanied her. The nature of the response, plus the playful tone, caused the clip to immediately go viral.

It only took a few hours for platforms like TikTok and Instagram served as a springboard to make other content and jokes that were based on the phrase. In fact, there are now hundreds of musical versions, but not only that: images of t-shirts and caps with the phrase printed on them have begun to circulate, even of a supposed tattoo, which is most likely the result of the work of an image editor.

¿Hayley Welsh es Miss Hawk Tuah?

Tim and Dee they gave credit to Hayley Welsh y Chelsea Bradford for the interview. The identity of the latter, the companion of the author of the phrase, was soon confirmed. However, the search for Hayley Welsh returned scant and unconvincing results, which many interpreted as a premeditated concealment of his identity, after the video went viral. The internet took it as a challenge to reveal who the person behind hawk tuah is.

Since then, several photos and even theories have surfaced that it was a person whose name is not Hayley Welsh. However, one by one, the women who have been mentioned in different publications as the author of the phrase have come out to deny it. What has appeared are more photos of the young woman. Some users found the VSCO account of Chelsea Bradford, her companion, and there are more images of the now famous blonde.

A widely spread theory on different networks is that the woman worked as a preschool teacher and was forced to resign after the video went viral.

The phrase hawk tuah is not entirely original to the girl in the video. Many Internet users have highlighted that the rapper Missy Elliott He used a very similar one in a song also of an explicit nature. In the song Get ur freak on, from 2001, you hear “Quiet (Shh), hush your mouth/ Silence when I spit it out/…”And there he makes a onomatopoeia very similar.

The phrase is already became a symbol of humor and authenticity among an audience that has given it value because it is considered genuine and unfiltered. And this is precisely what the Internet is questioning, because the creator, even being able to take advantage of it to gain fame and fortune, has hidden herself… at least until the moment this was written.