Red Flags In My Room

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Red Flags In My Room, Red Flag TikTok or Red Flags In Men refers to a trend on TikTok where people jokingly show off potential red flags in their rooms, their boyfriend's room or another location. Sometimes the trend is used to show off red flags in people or types of people (i.e. red flags in men, women, etc.). The trend was popularized on TikTok in September 2021, often set to the original sound "male manipulator mashup." A red flag is a metaphorical warning or sign that something is off.

Origin

Discussions about red flags in men and women are common on TikTok and started to become more common throughout 2021. In April of that year, TikTokers started posting videos sharing "weirdly specific" red flags they see in members of the opposite sex (compilations shown below, left and right).

On September 3rd, 2021, TikToker^[1] @wariosballs69 posted a video with the on-screen caption "do i give off any red flags?" where they show off their bedroom, revealing things like a wall of guitars, a Neutral Milk Hotel poster, a number of albums including Weezer's Blue Album and what appears to be a My Little Pony cum jar project, gaining over 243,000 views in a month (shown below). It is unknown if this is the earliest video showing off red flags in a bedroom.

The video inspired other TikTokers to show off the potential red flags in their bedrooms. For example, on September 10th, TikToker^[2] @gigieatsballs posted a video with the caption "red flags in my room" showing a "plushie hammock," Minecraft bedsheets and a Mocking SpongeBob meme drawn on the wall, gaining over 600,000 views in a month (shown below).

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Red Flags In Men

On September 23rd, TikToker^[6] @rocketfuel69 made a video rattling off a list of red flags that apply to men only, gaining over 2 million views in three weeks (shown below).

On October 7th, Twitter^[7] user @urmomlolroasted posted "Am I missing anything ladies?" with an ironic list of red flags in men, gaining over 145,000 likes and 7,100 retweets in four days (shown below).

Red Flags In My BFs Room

The original sound "male manipulator mashup" became notably popularized over the course of September and October, inspiring over 57,000 videos by October 11th. On October 2nd, 2021, TikToker^[3] @rangabarbie posted a video following the trend where she shows the red flags in her boyfriend's room, the first being a pile of bread, gaining over 2.3 million views in a week (shown below).

The trend spread to other original sounds as well as users showed red flags in other parts of their homes. On October 1st, TikToker^[4] @uglyhoe666 posted a video showing red flags in their apartment, gaining over 3 million views in 10 days (shown below, left). On October 6th, TikToker^[5] @vegeclaireian posted a version of the video showing off red flags around her home, gaining over 1.2 million views in five days (shown below, right).

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