Yourfavoritedaughter2 "Leg Day Warm-Up" TikTok — Three-panel composite of TikToker @yourfavoritedaughter2 at the gym doing squats with a medicine ball while

Yourfavoritedaughter2 "Leg Day Warm-Up" TikTok

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Published October 22, 2026

In February 2024, TikToker @yourfavoritedaughter2 posted a gym clip of a suggestive squat warm-up that a nearby man interrupted, telling her she was "what's wrong with girls." The clip jumped to X within hours, where reposts argued over whether the confrontation was deserved and whether the whole scene was a staged skit.

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Overview

The clip centers on a 40-second gym video in which @yourfavoritedaughter2 does what she labels pulse squats, holding a deep squat and bouncing slightly while adding exaggerated facial expressions1. On-screen text reads "this is why 2024 is unsafe for women…" setting up the arrival of a male gymgoer who asks "Yo, what are you doing?" and then tells her "You're actually what's wrong with girls"4.

Arguments around the TikTok broke along two lines. One camp treated the man's confrontation as justified pushback against gym content made for the camera, with reposters calling him "based"3. Another camp read the whole thing as a bait skit, pointing at the title card and the man's clean delivery as evidence it was performed rather than caught5. Comments under the original piled onto the facial-expression detail, saying pulse squats on their own were fine but the mugging turned the exercise into a performance4.

Origin & Background

Platform
TikTok (origin) / X (viral spread)
Creator
@yourfavoritedaughter2
Date
2024

@yourfavoritedaughter2 posted the "Leg Day Warm-Up" TikTok on February 18th, 2024, filming herself mid-pulse-squat with the "this is why 2024 is unsafe for women…" overlay1. A man off-camera walks over, asks what she is doing, then delivers the "what's wrong with girls" line before the clip cuts.

Within roughly two days, the video reached about 4.1 million plays and 146,100 likes on TikTok, with top comments debating whether the move counted as a legitimate pulse squat or a staged sexualized bit because of her facial expressions4.

How It Spread

Later on February 18th, 2024, X user @chris2loose reposted the clip and called the man's reaction "Absolutely based," picking up over 220 likes within two days2. That same day, @IncelsCo ran a near-identical repost praising the man as "based," and that post climbed past 10,000 likes in the same window, pushing the video well outside TikTok's own comment section3.

Replies under both X posts quickly turned into a skit-or-real argument. On February 19th, 2024, @rackster78 wrote "It's a skit" under one of the reposts and got over 650 likes in a day, a reading that spread through quote tweets as users compared the clip to earlier staged bait-the-guy gym videos5. Know Your Meme later cataloged the exchange and the pulse-squat debate as the core of the meme's appeal4.

Timeline

2024-02-18

@yourfavoritedaughter2 posts the gym clip to TikTok with the "this is why 2024 is unsafe for women…" caption.

2024-02-18

X user @chris2loose reposts the video and calls the man's reaction "Absolutely based."

2024-02-18

@IncelsCo reposts the clip on X, where it passes 10,000 likes within two days.

2024-02-19

@rackster78 replies "It's a skit," seeding the staged-video reading of the clip.

2024-02-20

The TikTok reaches roughly 4.1 million plays and 146,100 likes two days after posting.

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