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Pink Cardigan and Jay Guapo refers to a series of viral TikTok videos of TikToker Jay Guapo (@jayguap3) and TikToker @.00jayy wearing cardigans and leggings, parodying the style of the older women in their New York City neighborhood. TikToker @.00jayy was nicknamed Pink Cardigan because he always wore a pink cardigan. The two went viral in mid-2025 for their antics in the clothes, including dancing, squirting people with water guns and a series of videos documenting their feud with a deceitful monk in Times Square. Many of their videos were set to a slowed + reverb remix of the song "Sunset Lover" by Petit Biscuit.

Origin

On April 24th, 2025, TikToker^[1] @jayguap3 posted a video of him and his mom recreating a TikTok dance. In the video, he's seen wearing black leggings, a black cardigan and slip-on Uggs. The video received over 202,800 likes in three months (shown below).

In another TikTok^[2] video post later that day, Jay Guapo and his mom were seen choosing "comfortable" clothes for each other from their own wardrobes. The cardigan outfit that he was wearing was from her closet.

Jay Guapo continued to post videos wearing the cardigan and leggings in subsequent videos. Then, on May 4th, Jay Guapo posted a TikTok^[3] featuring two others wearing similar outfits, including his younger brother, TikToker^[4] @.00jayy, who was wearing a pink cardigan and black leggings, and also sporting an afro. He would later be nicknamed Pink Cardigan. Over two months, the video gained over 475,900 likes (shown below).

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In the following weeks, Jay Guapo and Pink Cardigan shared more videos in their women's outfits. For instance, on May 18th, 2025, he posted a TikTok^[5] of him saying, "Yo, is that Pink Cardigan?" to a group of people in a park, who had Pink Cardigan dancing behind them. Over two months, the video gained over 143,400 likes (shown below).

On June 25th, 2025, Jay Guapo posted a TikTok^[6] of him and his brother wearing their cardigans, set to a slowed + reverb remix of the song "Sunset Lover" by Petit Biscuit.^[7] In a month, the video gained over 1.2 million likes (shown below).

On July 1st, TikToker^[8] @.00jayy, also known as Pink Cardigan, posted a video using the same TikTok sound,^[7] which shows him standing and sticking his tongue out at a couple sitting in a pizza shop. Over three weeks, the video received over 783,800 likes (shown below).

On July 6th, 2025, Twitter / X ^[16] user @bruisedstitch posted a GIF of the abovementioned video, captioning it, "How it feels to DM first," gaining over 70,000 likes in 14 days (shown below).

how it feels to dm first pic.twitter.com/DIiT2q732p

— 𐄯 (@bruisedstitch) July 6, 2025

On July 12th, TikToker^[9] @hygz.3dit posted a "Where Is My" edit about Jay Guapo, gaining over 15,800 likes in nine days (shown below).

On July 15th, 2025, TikToker^[13] @domthetroll55 posted a video of himself encountering Pink Cardigan on the streets of New York, gaining over 381,700 likes in six days (shown below).

On July 18th, X^[15] user @nobmakis tweeted, "Them niggas in cardigans on TikTok just be terrorizing New Yorkers," gaining over 108,000 likes in three days (shown below).

Jay Guapo And Pink Cardigan vs. Spitting Monk

On May 17th, 2025, Jay Guapo posted a TikTok^[10] about a monk giving away bracelets, which has been a known scam since at least 2016, as reported on by NBC New York.^[11]

In the video, Jay Guapo shows that he was chased by one of the monks, who gave him a bracelet that Jay Guapo refused to pay for. The monk is seen spitting at Jay Guapo and Pink Cardigan over a wall. The video received over 984,000 likes in two months (shown below).

On May 20th, Jay Guapo posted another TikTok^[12] of himself in Times Square, where he claimed to have seen the same monk who spat at him days earlier. Over two months, the video gained over 1.1 million likes (shown below).

On June 27th, 2025, Jay Guapo posted a TikTok^[14] of himself explaining the lore behind his feud with the New York monk, responding to a comment that said he was being mean to the monk. Over one month, the video gained over 184,900 likes (shown below).

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