# Skinny Girl Walking Sideways Skinny Girl Walking Sideways is an October 2021 TikTok trend built around a Chinese creator turning sideways to squeeze past pedestrians as a way to prove how thin she is. TikTokers pushed the clip into ironic territory by overlaying text about 'skinny things' like ordering lettuce on a cheeseburger. ## Overview Skinny Girl Walking Sideways is a TikTok trend from October 2021 built around a Chinese creator angling her body sideways to slip through narrow gaps as a way to prove how thin she is[2]. The clips picked up ironic attention, with users overlaying text about 'skinny things' like ordering lettuce on a burger or eating a salad on top of her footage[4]. The format is visual and short. A person turns fully sideways in a gap between a wall and another pedestrian, or between a mall escalator and the wall next to it, and squeezes through a space most people would not try[1]. The earnest brag flipped into a running joke on the app, played as absurd rather than impressive[6]. ## How It Spread The clips hit much bigger audiences once high-profile accounts stitched them. TikTok star Khaby Lame posted a stitch of the escalator clip on October 9th, 2021, that racked up around 45.9 million plays and 5.1 million likes inside a month[3]. On October 15th, @yoleendadong posted another stitch that pulled about 4.1 million plays and 647,100 likes[4]. The ironic wave kicked off on October 18th, 2021, when @ethanp0iss0n uploaded the first known parody sidestep and drew roughly 2.9 million plays[6]. A day later, @nmillz1 posted a TikTok pointing out that @mnmnooxx0 had scrubbed all her videos in response to the attention, and that clip alone hit 3.9 million plays and 865,800 likes[5]. Text-overlay jokes carried the format into November. On October 25th, 2021, @arielomggg captioned the escalator video 'Me after getting lettuce on my cheese burger'[7], and by November 11th, 2021, roughly 10,700 TikToks used the sound from the original clip[3]. ## How to Use The format typically involves either recreating the sidestep by turning fully sideways to squeeze through a narrow gap, or overlaying text on the original @mnmnooxx0 clip that pairs the sidestep with a 'skinny' punchline like ordering lettuce on a burger or asking for a salad[4]. Reposts often use the same TikTok audio pulled from the original video[3]. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Skinny Girl Walking Sideways? Skinny Girl Walking Sideways is a TikTok trend from October 2021 where users mimicked or captioned a video of creator @mnmnooxx0 turning sideways to squeeze past pedestrians as a brag about being thin[2]. ### Where did Skinny Girl Walking Sideways come from? It came from TikToker @mnmnooxx0, who uploaded the original sidewalk sidestep video in early October 2021 before deleting it in mid-October[2]. The earliest known repost came from @willkime on October 11th, 2021[1]. ### What does Skinny Girl Walking Sideways mean? The sidestep is meant to show that the person is so thin they can fit through gaps most people cannot, but TikTokers turned it into an ironic joke by overlaying text about 'skinny' behavior like ordering lettuce on a cheeseburger[7]. ### How do you use Skinny Girl Walking Sideways? People either recreate the sidestep in their own clips or overlay text on the original @mnmnooxx0 video referencing 'skinny things' like eating salad, drinking water, or asking for lettuce on a burger[4]. ### Is Skinny Girl Walking Sideways still popular? The trend peaked in October and November 2021, when Khaby Lame's stitch pulled about 45.9 million plays and roughly 10,700 TikToks used the original sound by November 11th, 2021[3]. ## References 1. [https://www.tiktok.com/@willkime]() 2. [https://www.tiktok.com/@mnmnooxx0]() 3. [https://www.tiktok.com/@khaby.lame]() 4. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/skinny-girl-walking-sideways]() 5. [https://www.tiktok.com/@nmillz1]() 6. [https://www.tiktok.com/@ethanp0iss0n]() 7. [https://www.tiktok.com/@arielomggg]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/skinny-girl-walking-sideways Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library