About

White Boy Winter is a catchphrase that plays on the 2021 catchphrase White Boy Summer. Although the phrase "White Boy Winter" has seen sporadic use online since 2020, it came to be associated with a TikTok trend involving rapper-singer Jack Harlow's 2023 song "Lovin on Me" in late 2023.

Origin

The phrase "White Boy Winter" can be traced as far back as November 2020, with TikToker^[1] @crunchyf0reskin making the earliest known post referencing the term on November 13th, 2020, and gathering over 640,000 plays and 160,000 likes in three years (seen below).

Spread

On November 19th, 2020, Redditor^[2] /u/young_peepee posted a meme about White Boy Winter to /r/okbuddyretard, showing a white boy wearing shorts in the snow. The post gathered over 1,400 upvotes in three years (seen below).

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On November 22nd, 2020, Urban Dictionary^[3] user @sosasgf posted a definition for the term "White Boy Winter," calling it the season when white boys get the spotlight (seen below).

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2023 Jack Harlow 'Lovin On Me' Trend

In late 2023, a TikTok trend featuring Jack Harlow's November 10th, 2023 release "Lovin On Me" sparked off a new White Boy Winter resurgence.

TikToker^[4] @quinnickleshow's posted a video on November 3rd, 2023, solving a Rubik's cube and lip-syncing to the song. The post gathered over 14 million plays and 1.5 million likes in six weeks (seen below, left). TikToker^[5] @ellaoj posted a series of video highlighting various users who have participated in the White Boy Winter TikTok trend, including a November 8th post that gathered over 1.4 million views and 47,000 likes in six weeks (seen below, right).

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