About

POV: We're Cavewomen and I'm Telling You About My Ex, also known as the Cavewomen Trend, Cavegirls Trend or Talking Like a Cavewoman Trend, refers to a series of videos, a part of a TikTok trend, in which women talked like a cavewoman (or a cavegirl) when telling a story about their lives. The aforementioned POV catchphrase was the most common caption for the videos, in which the female TikToker told a story about their ex-boyfriend or husband while speaking like a cavewoman. The dialect involves using "me" in place of "I" and other possessive, first-person pronouns, among other humorous simplifications of speech meant to sound primitive.

Origin

On September 26th, 2025, TikToker^[1] @em.brdly shared a video of herself with the caption, "POV: we're cavewomen and I'm telling you about my evil ex." She talked like a cavewoman in the video, meaning that she talked in a simplified form, replacing the "I" pronoun and other first-person possessive pronouns with "me." The video was posted as a reply to a comment on a precursor, since-deleted video, likely following the same premise. Over 10 days, the video received over 587,000 likes.

Earlier that month, on September 7th, TikToker^[3] @tiny_tobasco posted a skit about a conversation between two cavewomen, paired with the POV caption, "POV: The cave girl you think mean but she girl's girl." The video received over 376,400 likes in a month.

Video skits in which the premise relied on talking like a cavewoman were also shared before 2025.

For instance, on August 11th, 2024, TikToker^[6] @jennajennajenn shared a video about a beauty pageant mom from 10,000 B.C., in which she spoke like a cavewoman with an American Southern accent. Over one year, the video received over 173,800 likes.

TikToker^[7] @jennajennajenn then posted a similar skit on September 16th, 2024, about a Pick Me Girl from 10,000 B.C. Over one year, it gained roughly 201,500 likes.

Spread

On September 29th, 2025, TikToker^[2] @tiny_tobasco added to the trend and tagged @em.brdly. She showed herself telling a similar story in a cavewoman cadence, paired with the caption, "POV we're cavegirls and me tell you about my ex and my revenge." Over one week, the video received over 102,300 likes.

On October 4th, TikToker^[4] @p1nkb0ww0 shared a video of herself "talking about my date to you" as a cavewoman, gaining over 183,100 likes in two days.

On October 5th, 2025, TikToker^[5] @mydrafts475374 shared a video following the same premise as the original, paired with the caption, "POV: we're cavewomen and I'm telling you about my evil ex." The video received over 137,900 likes in a day.

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