@alllthingsfood What can beat this girl dinner? 🤔 #trending #viral #chocolatecoveredstrawberries #girldinner #caesarsalad #fyp
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Tik Tok’s Next Top Food Trend
Alexia Crisologo W101
April 23, 2024
Alexia Crisologo is a freshmen at Duke University, pursing a degree in statistics on a pre med track. Her work explores the trends of food on TikTok through their histories and futures.
Starting off, girl dinner,(TikTok 2024a) a trend started by Olivia Maher,(Jennings, Rebecca 16 August 2023) has evolved into many different paths. Originally, she posted what she was eating for dinner, cheese, grapes and bread to indulge in her “medieval” cravings. The trend started to pick up speed and was seen as a way to promote positivity about feeding indulgences (Martin, Heather 12 December 2023)as well as to support other girls in their eating habits. A notable adaptation was the interchangeability of girl dinner and sweet treats. Sweet treats (TikTok 2024b)were seen as a post dinner snack such as a Starbucks drink or even a piece of chocolate. The evolution of this trend makes it hard to designate an exact timeframe in which it was trending for, but for the moment it has been around for nearly a year. While some think the trend is dead or cheugy (Jennings, Rebecca 16 August 2023), in my opinion, this trend is still circulating as seen in the tik tok published March 3, 2024 by @ alllthingsfood,
and I see no end in sight because of the immense adaptations it has take on. For example trends such as the famous chocolate covered strawberries, the comments are flooding with hashtags mentioning girl dinner.
This trend has adapted to more than just food. Mimicking the style of the strawberry video, people will record things they love with flash to the same audio by Cadwell.
References
Jennings, Rebecca. 16 August 2023. “Girl” Trends and the Repackaging of Womanhood. Vox. https://www.tiktok.com/tag/girldinner.
Martin, Heather. 12 December 2023. From “Girl Dinner” to #Watertok: The 13 Most Viral TikTok Food Trends of 2023. Aol. https://www.aol.com/news/girl-dinner-watertok-13-most-003158257.html.
TikTok. 2024a. Girl Dinner. TikTok. https://www.tiktok.com/tag/girldinner.
———. 2024b. Sweet Treats. TikTok. https://www.tiktok.com/discover/sweet-treats?lang=en.