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hot girl summer
[hot gurl suhm-er]
What does hot girl summer mean?
Live your best life! Hot girl summer is a meme, originating with rapper Megan Thee Stallion, about feeling confident in who you areโand having fun and looking good while doing it. It often involves women posting selfies with summery swag and style using the caption (I heard itโs) hot girl summer.
Where does hot girl summer come from?
Summer 2019 may be forever remembered as hot girl summer. For the phrase, we can thank Megan Thee Stallion, a rapper and university student in Houston, Texas. While the phrase hot girl summer can be found in a variety of one-off instances on social media in the early 2010s, Stallion herself tweeted the phrase as early as April 14, 2018:
This abt to be a REAL HOT GIRL SUMMER๐ฅ๐ค๐ฝ
โ HOT GIRL MEG (@theestallion) April 14, 2018
For her debut mixtape Fever, Stallion created an alter ego, Hot Girl Meg. Through 2018 leading up to the mixtape release on May 17, 2019, Stallion used variations on the phrase hot girl on social media, notably on her album artwork and account handles. She also features hot girl in her lyrics to her Fever track โCash Shit,โ which begins:
Real hot girl shit
Yeah, Iโm in my bag, but Iโm in his too
And thatโs why every time you see me, I got some new shoes
Fans took note of Stallionโs hot girl and hot girl summer as early as 2018, but hot girl summer went viral in May 2019. First, her audience used the phrase in excitement about Feverโs release (i.e., itโs going to be the summer where Hot Girl Megโs music is a smash hit). Then, people, especially women, used the phrase in captions of selfies where they feel confident, stylish, and beautiful (i.e., being a hot girl in the summer).
I heard itโs a hot girl summer ๐๐ฅ pic.twitter.com/SsL6ocw4ha
โ โก๏ธtriker (@sweetliketeaaa) May 19, 2019
But, hot girl summer is about more than just a summery selfies. As Stallion said in an interview with The Root published in June 2019, hot girl summer is โabout women and men being unapologetically them, just having a good-ass time, hyping up their friends, doing you.โ By the time summer actually started, hot girl summer was already on fire.
Examples of hot girl summer
Who uses hot girl summer?
While it often involves women posting selfies, hot girl summer is inclusive. Everyone can have a hot girl summer, whether youโre a man, woman, nonbinary, single, in a relationship, etc. Itโs all about having a vivacious, self-confident attitude.
hot girl summer : a season of being unapologetic in your glow , securing your own bags , being in your bag , embracing the body you have , laughing more , living more , and doing the dam thing while feeling dam good ๐๐ฝโโ๏ธ๐๐ฝโโ๏ธ๐๐ฝโโ๏ธ๐๐ฝโโ๏ธ๐๐ฝโโ๏ธ๐๐ฝโโ๏ธ๐๐ฝโโ๏ธ๐๐ฝโโ๏ธ๐๐ฝโโ๏ธ๐๐ฝโโ๏ธ๐๐ฝโโ๏ธ๐๐ฝโโ๏ธ๐๐ฝโโ๏ธ
โ ๐๐๐ช ๐ค๐ฅ๐ฆ๐๐ ๐๐ ๐ฃ ๐ค๐๐๐ ๐ ๐ง๐ ๐๐๐ฃ๐ (@artsygalnish) June 25, 2019
Flattering selfies posted on Twitter and Instagram are one of the definitive ways to show that youโre having a hot girl summer. Even celebrities like Jordyn Woods and singers Chloe X Halle have posted selfies with the caption hot girl summer.
There are also many humorous riffs on the meme, as is ever true of the internet. Jokes often center on how someoneโs isnโt having a perfect hot girl summer.
Itโs gon be a hot girl summer, spring, fall, and winter if we donโt save this planet. pic.twitter.com/ynA9Gyusej
โ #AlexSZN (@OG_Alex_D) May 25, 2019
u know what frankly I am not having a very hot girl summer. unless by hot you mean sweaty bc actually now that you mention it I have been very sweaty
โ ellie schnitt (@holy_schnitt) July 7, 2019
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