In Kinkly's brand new "Sex Gone Viral" column, we'll attempt to capture these salacious hot-today-gone-tomorrow stories, with as much insight and fun commentary at possible, given how quickly this news will pass by.
So, please enjoy the very first installment of "Sex Gone Viral."
Hailey Welch’s “Hawk Tuah” Heard ‘Round The World
When Vanity Fair, the The New York Times, and Rolling Stone weigh in on your meteoric rise to popularity, you know you have truly arrived.
And Hailey “Hawk Tuah” Girl Welch has certainly done just that.
From revealing her sex advice on the now infamous Tim & Dee TV (“You gotta give ’em that ‘hawk tuah’ and spit on that thang. You get me?”), to acquiring a trademark for that quirky turn of phrase, to setting up her 16 Minutes LLC so she can sell swag proclaiming her advice, to acquiring Penthouse management representation, anything seems possible for this young woman from rural Nashville, whom Rolling Stone called "a charming Gen Z Dolly Parton.”
Although there's supposed science (and surely we use that word loosely in this context) behind the how and why content goes viral, which mostly comes down to the content producer planning their content wisely and leveraging trends, these factors don’t apply to impromptu person-in-the-street moments like asking a young Nashville woman a naughty question and her answer capturing the Internet.
More sex gone viral this week
While it seems to make some sort of sense that the story this week of a female tourist climbing Giambologna’s nude Bacchus statue and mimicking various sex acts would make news, what we learn from the Hailey Welch’s of the modern world is that there is no rhyme or reason to why something gains popularity, or how long that popularity will last.
