It owes its youthful, rebellious connotations to Mr Will Smith in The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air, and, through the decade, musicians such as Mr Tupac Shakur, Jay-Z and, ultimately, Limp Bizkit’s Mr Fred Durst,” wrote Elvidge.
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But it caught on as a cultural phenomenon following Mr Sylvester Stallone’s 1987 arm-wrestling movie Over The Top, followed by high-profile baseball star Mr Ken Griffey Jr in the 1990s. “The backwards cap was first worn on the baseball field by catchers, to keep the brim out of the way of their protective masks. Now, why is such a simple, laid-back and arguably uncouth style inducing such intense sexual desire? Well first we can look at its history, as writer Chris Elvidge did for MR PORTER’s weekly style guide The Journal back in July:
“They said that it’s unbelievable how much attention the back of a man will get if they have that baseball hat backwards versus the back of the same man in the same workout clothes without it,” says Hitchcock. When speaking with Victoria Cardenas Hitchcock, a San-Francisco-based personal brand and image maker, about the backwards baseball cap’s current significance, she tells InsideHook her graduate student nephew and his friends have noticed its allure. The style has gained IRL attraction as well. “Men in backwards hat and beanies are nothin better ? #fyp ♬ I like you have a cupcakke – reibert ??????️?Īnd the trend is not just operating in a thirsty TikTok vacuum. “I swear hats on backwards hit differently.” The implication here is that this style is the sexiest. As the music shifts to Cupcakke (and the sexually charged lyric “smack my ass like a drum”), though, those same men then appear wearing their caps backwards. In the baseball hat videos, women film their significant others wearing normal, forward-facing caps and then no caps, suggesting that these women enjoy both of those looks on their S.O. The format goes like this: words flash across the screen indicating things that a user likes as a child’s voice repeats the words, “I like you, have a cupcake.” Then, abruptly, the sound is interrupted by the rapper Cupcakke’s song “Vagina,” at which point a final phrase appears on the screen, this time indicating the thing the user likes most of all, trumping all else.
In a recent viral trend, users are sharing videos of their boyfriends and husbands in baseball caps backed by the popular TikTok sound called “ I like you have a cupcakke,” which is used to share a user’s personal preferences. Similar to the 5-inch inseam short craze that took over the video-sharing app in the summer of 2020, TikTok users are now getting all hot and bothered over men sporting another simple, unpretentious piece of garb: the backwards baseball cap. If you ever want to know the menswear styles the general public is currently thirsting over, just consult TikTok.