I'm Looking For a Yellow Bone, Long-Haired Star

About

I'm Looking For a Yellow Bone, Long-Haired Star refers to a TikTok dance trend set to Soulja Boy's "Pretty Boy Swag" where users shake their hips while rotating their arms at the side of their bodies. The trend began in late September 2022 and went viral in October in videos coupled with comedic captions and video clips showcasing two people in the dancer's life who enable each other or get along and how they do so.

Origin

On September 28th, 2022, TikToker^[1] @yeaclarkie posted a video where she and another woman dance to a section of "Pretty Boy Swag" where Soulja Boy sings, "I'm lookin' for a yellow bone long-haired star, thick, in the hips come, get in my car." The dance involves swaying your hips from left to right while moving your arms rhythmically at the sides of your body (shown below, left). The video gained over 1.6 million views in two weeks. On September 30th, TikToker^[2] @privmaree posted a video doing the same dance, garnering over 600,000 views in two weeks (shown below, right).

I'm lookin for a yellow bone long-haired star
Thick, in the hips come, get in my car
You party with a star, we take off and go to Mars

Spread

The trend spread over the following weeks under @privmaree's original sound, inspiring over 146,000 videos by October 14th. In the majority of the videos, the dancing is coupled with captions about two people in the user's life who get along and enable each other. For example, on October 9th, 2022, TikToker^[3] @chloemisandrist posted a video doing the trend about two "LGBTQ+": siblings, garnering over 5.8 million views in five days (shown below, left). On October 10th, TikToker^[4] @_._dump.truck_._ posted a similar video, garnering over 8.6 million views in four days (shown below, right).

On October 12th, TikToker^[5] @maiaknight posted a video performing the dance, garnering over 8.6 million views in two days (shown below). That day, YouTuber^[6] See Tok posted a compilation of the trend, earning over 30,000 views in a day.

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