![]() ![]() It’s the plague of relatability rearing its head in plain view. ![]() They wear hoops! They have accents! They eat hot cheetos in class!!!!! They’re just checking the boxes for the traits some young Latinas possess and then mocking them. However, I find them disappointing because none of the videos are actually saying anything clever or unique about the Latinx experience. We have the right to make fun of ourselves before anyone else does. What I find so ultimately disappointing about many of these posts is they include content from fellow Latinx people. It appears that image is everything to this new generation, and the sin of wearing the very specific and usually revealing outfits of the hot cheeto girl is unforgivable to her mockers. Do they not realize what they are indirectly mocking? 7: hot cheeto girl □ #hotcheetogirl #series #aesthetics #fypシ ♬ Latina – LarrayĪside from that, the trend engages in casual classism, another cultural casualty of the app. What doesn’t make sense is that the teens consuming this content are the same ones who argue against anti-Black racism and cultural appropriation. ![]() Chicanx and Black culture are known to overlap this makes sense when you analyze the long history of poor and working class neighborhoods being predominantly populated by Black people and Latinos. Many of hot cheeto girl’s aesthetic choices also are clearly influenced by Black and urban aesthetics. But they turn his sweet and clever character that comes from a place of love into an aggressive, annoying, unlikeable classmate. The jokes seem to derive from the wild success of AdamRay’s Rosa videos. They smack their gum, laugh obnoxiously and yell things like “Heeey best friend!” The top videos on the app under the tag “Hot Cheeto Girl” all include exaggerated portrayals of women with South American (mostly Mexican) accents, huge hoops, long acrylics and ridiculous, exaggerated false eyelashes. The majority of hot cheeto girls, with a patent love for spicy food, are, of course, Latinas. But using minimal brain power and basic sociological context clues, we can understand that the cheeto girl is coded as a minority woman from an urban area. Now, it’s incredibly important to note that “hot cheeto girl” usually does not specifically indicate race. 20 year old drug dealer boyfriend? check. prolly wears thrasher sweatshirts and vans. According to Urban Dictionary, a hot cheeto girl is defined as “ that one bitch everyone has in their class. ![]()
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