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"Hey Men" and They Are Pigs, also written as "Hey Men" and They're Pigs or with emojis as "Hey Men" and They Are Pigs 😭😭😭😭, refers to a viral tweet about a lyric and its corresponding scene in the music video for Sabrina Carpenter's song "Manchild," in which she's sitting in a bathtub and lip dubs, "Hey, men," as she nods to two pigs sitting with her. The tweet, originally posted by Twitter / X user @hotmessjunk in June 2025, called out the play on words in the scene, which likened men to pigs. In the following months, the tweet was parodied as its caption became a phrasal template, roughly following, "Hey X" and They Are Y 😭😭😭😭.

Origin

On June 6th, 2025, X^[1] user @hotmessjunk tweeted a clip from the music video for Sabrina Carpenter's "Manchild," in which Carpenter is sitting in a bathtub with two pigs and lip-syncs, "Hey, men," as she nods to them. The moment occurs at the music video's 2:24-minute mark on YouTube,^[2] which was uploaded on that same day.

@hotmessjunk captioned the clip, "'Hey men' and they are pigs 😭😭😭😭," gaining over 82.3 million views and 277,000 likes in five months.

“hey men” and they are pigs 😭😭😭😭 www.pic.twitter.com/17XX9tNdAW

— iya ★ (@hotmessjunk) June 6, 2025

Spread

The X post received numerous viral quote-tweets from others on the app over the following days.

For instance, on June 7th, 2025, X^[3] user @zkdlinhwa shared a quote-tweet, writing, "I love her but this is very disrespectful to pigs," garnering over 479,000 likes in five months.

Also on June 7th, X^[4] user @00selm quote-tweeted the post as well, writing, "Is all she do is hate men and sexualize herself to sell music?" The post received over 196,000 likes in five months.

On November 15th, 2025, X^[5] user @Reddit_Spurs shared a copycat tweet of @hotmessjunk's post, gaining over 9 million views and 18,000 likes in four days.

Several users quote-tweeted the post to share iterations of the phrasal template "Hey X" and They Are Y 😭😭😭😭. For instance, on November 18th, X^[6] user @giasfelfeb wrote, "'Hey media' and they are problematic media 😭😭😭😭," gaining over 17,000 likes in a day.

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