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hippo biting another's hippo's butt

Lookin' Like A Snack

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Added Nov 14, 2017 at 12:36PM EST by Adam.

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Lookin' Like a Snack is a slang term used online to refer to one being very attractive. After being used on Black Twitter for several years since the late 2000s and early 2010s, it began seeing widespread use in 2017.

Origin

The earliest known use of the phrase to mean attractive appeared on Twitter on July 6th, 2009 by Twitter user @BeautyMark_Tee[1] (shown below).


First known use of the phrase looking like a snack by twitter user @BeautyMark_Tee

Spread

The phrase saw use online over the next several years, particularly in Black Twitter, in captions to selfies or comments on others' pictures. For example, On December 20th, 2015, Twitter user @Neff1017[2] posted a selfie with the caption, gaining 23 likes (shown below, left). Twitter user @xocatilina_[3] did the same on December 11th, 2015, gaining a retweet and eleven likes (shown below, right).


Woman posts selfie in revealing dress looking like a snack Woman dressed fancy taking awkward selfie in the mirror of looking like a snack

On May 30th, 2016, Urban Dictionary user Senpaijosh submitted a definition[4] for the term that reads "Basically saying that person looks so good you can eat them all up." The definition gained 317 upvotes (shown below).


Urban dictionary definition of looking like a snack

The phrase began seeing more widespread use in meme contexts in the beginning of 2017. On March 13th, 2017, Twitter user @QUEbaGoodingJr uploaded a picture of a hippo biting another hippo's butt with the caption "When bae get out the shower looking like a snack."[5] The tweet gained 5,800 retweets and 6,900 likes (shown below).


Tweet by user @QUEbaGoodingJr of a hippo biting another hippo on the ass with caption of when bae gets out of the shower looking like a snack

Over the course of the following few months, the phrase would be used in its original context and with joke variations on Twitter. Some popular examples of the latter include a tweet by @sexingthots[6] which featured a rainbow-colored confederate flag, posted November 9th, 2017 and gaining over 110 retweets (shown below, left), and a tweet by @ConnorKennedyy[7] that used a picture of Squidward posted November 2nd, 2017 (shown below, right)


Gay confederate flag tweeted out for when you are full of hate but your brother is looking like a snack Squidward meme of forget a snack, he looks like a whole meal

Various Examples


Funny tumblr of when you are looking like a snack in your romper and she doesn't notice Cute baby posing for the picture captioned of when bae is looking like a snack When he looks like a snack and rolls up, with girl licking water bottle Woman dressed as a cheetos snack Tom the cat dressed all fancy and looking like a snack Smiling goldfish really is a snack

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External References

[1] Twitter – @BeautyMark_Tee

[2] Twitter – @Neff1017

[3] Twitter – @xocatilina_

[4] Urban Dictionary – looking like a snack

[5] Twitter – @QUEbagoodingjr

[6] Twitter – @sexingthots

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