![]() I first heard people using the term in late 2018/early 2019 and my stance has always been clear on what the background of this stereotype is. Their personality traits usually include being loud, lazy, academically inferior, and, most notably, “ghetto.” The name of this stereotype derives from these girls eating some type of hot chips like Hot Cheetos or Takis. In case you are unaware, “Hot Cheeto Girls” are girls who typically wear Thrasher tees, have laid baby hairs, long false lashes, long acrylics, hoop earrings, and typically talk with an accent. The girls at my table discussed how they disliked “Hot Cheeto Girls” and how rude, disruptive, and annoying they are. I quietly observed their conversation and somewhere in the dialogue, “Hot Cheeto Girls” came up. The least you can do is acknowledge us.A few months ago, I was in my school cafeteria, sitting at a table with some friends and acquaintances. Black and Latina women will always be the blueprint. The retired Hot Cheeto Girl trend is a disguise for no longer dressing up as a stereotype. ![]() Don’t tell me that I’m another angry Black woman just because you don’t want to hear what I have to say. I am sick of white people appropriating from other cultures when convenient one day and choosing to embrace their whiteness another. They don’t understand what it’s like to be Black or Latina. ![]() I’m tired of people saying it’s just a joke and I should get over it. It just shows us that white women can wake up one day and say “Hey, I no longer want to act as a caricature of Black and Latina women let me go back to acting as a basic white girl”. You may ask, what’s wrong with this? Isn’t this what you wanted? They stopped doing it so it’s okay now, right? No. The Retired Hot Cheeto Girl trend is a trend that has been gaining popularity on TikTok where typically white girls show their before and after of being a Hot Cheeto Girl. ![]() What’s The Retired Hot Cheeto Girl Trend? I could be as “proper” and white as I could be, and at the end of the day, I’d still be that one Black girl. They could act as ghetto and as ratchet as they wanted, and at the end of the day, they were still white. However, I have a confession: as a Black girl, I secretly always wanted to be like them. They would always be over the top and do too much. I vividly remember seeing Hot Cheeto Girls during middle school. It’s not so shocking to me that the narrative was spun, even though the people who participated in the trend were also white people. At this point, the Hot Cheeto Girls trend was just an underlying racist joke to people. The memes were relatable and funny, but gradually over time, people started incorporating racial stigmas. I remember during the pandemic when people created a meme out of Hot Cheeto Girl. This is when people started to integrate racial stigmas, against Black and Latina women, with the Hot Cheeto Girl trend. However, the term Hot Cheeto Girls arose in 2019-2020 when they became a meme on TikTok. Hot Cheeto Girls have been around since 2016 during this time they were more normalized and common to see. Although Hot Cheeto Girls can be white, the people who are made fun of and ridiculed the most are Black and Latina women. From the heavy use of AAVE to their mannerisms, accents, and clothes, Hot Cheeto Girls are just an exaggerated caricature of Black and Latina women. She doesn’t care about school.” Hot Cheeto Girls, to me, are a racist and cruel way of mocking Black and Latina girls. She always has long acrylic nails and big hoops in her ears. Yet, once the trend seems unattractive, people will go back to calling it distasteful and embarrassing and associating it with people of color, like the infamous Hot Cheeto Girl trend.Īccording to the Urban Dictionary a Hot Cheeto Girl is, “typically a Black or Hispanic girl who sits in the back of the class always seen eating hot cheetos or takis. Not only that, but they will credit white people for it and discredit people of color, like Hailey Bieber’s brownie glazed lips. However, when white people find the trend intriguing, the people who once criticized it for being ghetto will start doing it. The media will criticize things for being ghetto and ratchet when people of color are doing it. It is also not a secret that these trends usually gain popularity once non-people of color find them attractive. It’s no secret that many known and loved mainstream trends derive from Black and Brown communities.
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