One recent post showed 'British noughties teen starter pack' with pictures of Paul's Boutique bag, Dream Matte Mousse, and pink flip phone and Mayfair cigarettes.
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There's also an element of nostalgia, with many hun memes reflecting on noughties fashion and TV shows. 'But I can relate to Daniela Westbrook leaving Greggs with a steak bake and not a care in the world x'. 'I can't relate to Instagram models sitting on a beach in Bora Bora drinking coconut water and nibbling on hair gummies,' the owner of the The Love Of Huns Instagram account told Vice. It's an anti-Kardashian, very American perfection and instead it's about relatability - crying over your ex, popping to the corner shop in your slippers and getting excited for cocktails in a can. It is mostly, a rebellion against perfect A-lister and influencer culture that's seen in Hollywood. Other characters described as 'huns' by internet users include Pam from Gavin & Stacey, Kat Slater from EastEnders, Katie Price and Nadine Coyle.Īnother showed a tweet from parody account Tracy Beaker - a hit noughties TV show and book - which showed a picture of actress Ruth Gemmell in Brigerton reading: 'You all doubted me when I said my mum was a Hollywood actress'.īeing a hun, according to experts, means a unashamed, unironic love for reality TV, appreciating 'jeans and a nice top' and sipping on gin while you're Friday night takeaway is ordered. Iconic 'hun' moments are camp and often unintentional and include Gemma Collins falling through the stage when presenting an award to Love Island at the 2017 Radio 1 Teen Awards and Alison Hammond knocking a male assistant into Liverpool's Albert Dock while presenting This Morning's weather segment on floating map. 'Hun culture is not going away and its now becoming a brand in itself like Drag Race its about taking something that people may not necessarily think is relevant and making it a part of popular culture and I'm here for it and the memes'. 'It's a very clever sub culture and every celebrity wants to be a hun.
'None of really care about an A list superstar falling over but Gemma Collins screaming LOVE ISLAND and nearly breaking her neck in the process of falling through a trap door is the stuff of legends and the way that celebrities like Gemma see the irony in it all as a playful jibe means that the irony makes them themselves iconic. 'And it's the relatability of them that's the thread that's set a hun well and above a Hollywood star. Huns have grown in popularity, says pop culture expert Nick Ede, because they appeals so widely because it represents the relatable, fun side of the British celebrity. It is distinctively different to the American concept of a 'basic b****' and is a rebellion against the perfection of A-listers and influencers that dominate Instagram feeds, commentators say. The page celebrates small luxuries and relatable daily feelings in an unashamedly self-aware British way. Hun memes are huge on Instagram, Twitter and TikTok - where accounts including Love of Huns - have racked up more than 640,000 followers. 'Hun' culture (a slang abbreviation of honey) has become a huge online sensation in recent years with meme pages popping up racking up millions of likes and followers.Ī hun is a celebrated 'ordinary woman' and the culture revolves around idolising 'relatable' women (known as huns) - including the likes of Alison Hammond, Gemma Collins, Ruth Langsford and many female characters in EastEnders and Coronation Street.
If you like sipping on echo falls, wearing fluffy socks and going on your 'holibobs', - you might be a 'hun'.