“You get me?”

July 1, 2024 4:30 PM

It’s in this moment that Welch’s perfect onomatopoeia eclipses whomever she may be. Her interior life, her desires, her fears, her being — it all fades away because she’s produced such a rich and accurate sound effect for a specific kind of fellatio. Hailey Welch is no longer. Hawk Tuah Girl is born, and the people love Hawk Tuah Girl. From Hawk Tuah Girl, explained by straight dudes [Vox]

Hawk Tuah Girl on knowyourmeme

posted by chavenet (25 comments total)

I kind of feel bad knowing about this, even though I just learned about it from this article right now.
posted by aubilenon at 4:39 PM on July 1 [20 favorites]

It was inexplicable for me. I mean, that’s not … how … ? But it did make me a little homesick for Tennessee, where I spent a lot of time trying to get extremely drunk in the hopes of happiness.
posted by Countess Elena at 4:58 PM on July 1 [5 favorites]

“Oilers Girl and Hawk Tuah Girl — they're the Chappell Roan and Charli XCX of straight guy internet right now,” Cameron told me, trying to speak a language we both knew.

One of those moments when pop culture feels like a random text generator.
posted by doctornemo at 4:58 PM on July 1 [25 favorites]

I wish her a fun and profitable 15 minutes without regret or unpleasantness.

At the same time, this feels like something out of a recent William Gibson novel, like a synecdoche for pre-Jackpot cultural weirdness.
posted by jedicus at 5:33 PM on July 1 [9 favorites]

In a completely informal and totally incomplete survey of the Vox staff...

Sounds like training for New York Times style and think pieces.
posted by doctornemo at 5:38 PM on July 1 [4 favorites]

*spits*
posted by lalochezia at 5:43 PM on July 1 [2 favorites]

wait, have the guys moved on from "putting a little dirt under the pillow for the dirt man"?
posted by i used to be someone else at 5:45 PM on July 1 [2 favorites]

Straight dudes explained by a straight dude:

We are goddamned idiots, full stop.
posted by JustSayNoDawg at 5:46 PM on July 1 [8 favorites]

I unabashedly enjoy memes but I don't spend anywhere near enough time on the internet, tiktok, instagram and whatnot to be up to date on them. I like seeing MetaFilter have a meme that's close to current as an FP.

"Spit on that thang!" Yet another indication that porn always leads the internet to new places.
posted by ashbury at 6:34 PM on July 1 [3 favorites]

From the Vox article: social media clout grifters are attempting to turn Hawk Tuah Girl into a right-wing martyr.

Turns out she's not a Trumper. I wonder how quickly the bro-white-right will turn on her, and why they jumped so quickly to conclusions about her.
posted by clawsoon at 6:38 PM on July 1 [2 favorites]

As a gay man, in general I feel like I don't understand straight people at all sometimes. But I like Hawk Tuah girl, I understand her. She is admitting giving blow jobs is fun. Of course it is, I think to myself. Giving blow jobs is fun, and, like she says, you do just kinda have to enjoy yourself and go for it. She says all this, when she says hawk tuah. I appreciate this candor, this honesty. The woman speaks the truth.
posted by Rinku at 7:20 PM on July 1 [15 favorites]

The woman horks the truth.

FTFY
posted by Artful Codger at 7:24 PM on July 1 [1 favorite]

I kind of feel bad knowing about this, even though I just learned about it from this article right now.

lol exactly why I stopped reading the article. It told me enough to let me know I was blessed by ignorance and I'll not throw it away by learning too much now.
posted by GoblinHoney at 7:25 PM on July 1 [1 favorite]

You have no idea how much this meme confused people who could speak Malay and Indonesian or aware of the maritime southeast asian cultures as it was bubbling up because it's just two letters away from a cultural historical/mythical figure. I guess like imagining if you were anglo and found out Albanians are making sex jokes about Merlin lol
posted by cendawanita at 7:51 PM on July 1 [9 favorites]

I have a strong feeling that Hawk Tuah has peaked as a meme. When the proverbial shoeshine kids are talking about a stock, it's your signal to sell.
posted by tclark at 7:53 PM on July 1 [2 favorites]

I had no idea at all about her--there is being online, and then there is Being Online--but I had a pretty good indication I didn't really want to know when I came across a headline stating that Conor MacGregor started following her on IG. I mean, anything Conor MacGregor finds interesting is probably shit.
posted by Kitteh at 7:55 PM on July 1 [2 favorites]

I'm a straight dude, and I'm on Charli XCX internet. This meme did not make it to me through my normal channels, but has been splattered all over mainstream press.
posted by grumpybear69 at 7:58 PM on July 1 [3 favorites]

Earlier in the video, the interviewer asks her if she has any advice for getting over a breakup, to which she replies, "The only way to get over one is to get under another."
posted by rustcrumb at 7:58 PM on July 1 [3 favorites]

I made a hawk tuah meme using a Seamus Ennis quote on an extremely niche Irish trad music shit posting group. I feel that is peak internet for me.
posted by misterpatrick at 8:14 PM on July 1 [1 favorite]

I mean, people have been saying "hock tooey" or something similar, as a characterization of a spitting sound, as least since I was a kid, if not since the dawn of man. Not in this context perhaps, but good lord, they've written it up as if the sound itself is some kind of innovation.
posted by Sing Or Swim at 8:31 PM on July 1 [6 favorites]

I don't care that it's midnight. I'm going through the neighborhood and ringing up every house where there's a cat to ask to make some meme videos. I want this thing off the damned zeitgeist.
posted by ocschwar at 8:53 PM on July 1 [2 favorites]

This reminds me of when I learned what "twerking" was.
posted by cybrcamper at 10:07 PM on July 1 [1 favorite]

I just viscerally hate the spelling.
posted by atomicstone at 11:08 PM on July 1 [2 favorites]

The children are wrong and I miss the innocent days of goatse.
posted by away for regrooving at 11:32 PM on July 1 [1 favorite]

'Chad, a straight man who works in crypto-adjacent finance'

Because of course he does.
posted by GallonOfAlan at 12:24 AM on July 2 [1 favorite]