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Ashton Hall Writing In His Notebook refers to an exploitable meme inspired by fitness influencer and health coach Ashton Hall's viral morning routine video in which he wakes up before 4 a.m. to exercise, journal and dunk his face in ice water multiple times. One section of the morning routine video shows Ashton Hall opening a notebook to its first page and journaling for approximately two minutes. This scene came to be used in memes on Twitter / X, with people sharing jokes about what Hall could possibly have been writing in his journal.

Origin

On February 7th, 2025, Ashton Hall posted an Instagram^[1] video showing his early morning routine to his followers. At the 21-second timestamp, marked at "4:42 AM" in the video, Hall sits at his desk and opens a notebook to its first page, journaling for about two minutes.

The video was reposted to Twitter / X^[2] by user @tipsformen on March 20th, 2025, gathering over 700 million views and 200,000 likes in five days.

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On March 21st, several X users replied to the @tipsformen post by joking about the section where Ashton Hall writes in his notebook. That day, X^[3][4] users @iamgingertrash and @saiyananakamoto posted replies that gathered over 5,000 and 9,000 likes, respectively, in four days.

Spread

Other internet users posted jokes about what Ashton Hall could possibly have been writing in his notebook as the meme spread over the following days.

On March 23rd, 2025, X^[6] user @Wahyoenam posted a tweet joking that Hall was doodling an elaborate "The" from SpongeBob SquarePants. The post gathered over 13,000 likes in two days.

Also on March 23rd, X^[7] user @H0OTn posted an image of Persian script alongside the image of Hall writing, joking that he wrote, "In the morning, I will wash the lentils." The post gathered over 10,000 likes in two days.

On March 24th, 2025, X^[5] user @MrImJustSayin joked that Hall was doodling a Cool S in his notebook, gathering over 300,000 likes in a day.

Later on March 24th, the official X^[8] account for the football/soccer team Paris Saint-Germain, @PSG_English, posted a similar meme of what Hall may be writing, gathering over 13,000 likes on a post that speculated that he wrote, "Reminder: Watch Ousmane Dembélé's compilation video."

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