Table Of Content
- Can’t grow a thick mustache? Don’t fret — grow it on your head instead!
- Hair memes
- Broke? Can’t afford a REAL barber? Call this guy, he will do it for free!
- Another reason why you should not have your haircut on a ship.
- Social media shuts down trolls for comments on UP Board topper’s facial hair
- Recent Images

TikToker and barber @ahmad.friseur began posting videos to TikTok in September 2020. Many of his most popular videos show him combing, shaping or otherwise puncturing large quantities of gel on a client's head (examples shown below). Other internet users on Instagram[9] and Reddit[10] began referring to their haircuts as bird's nests in both 2018 and 2019. Jacob Sartorius began sporting a longer bird's nest going into 2019, which can be seen in a tweet[11] of his that he sent on February 18th, 2019. Additionally, Redditor[18] JoCrude commented with another altered lyric, writing, "The dreams in which I'm dying are the ones that lowkey slap." The comment gained over 420 upvotes. Multiple Zoomerification posts were made on 4chan in February 2022,[8][9] however, the trend did not become massive until early April 2022 when an anonymous user posted an edited image of Anton Chigurh from No Country for Old Men combined with Gen Z dialogue to /tv/[10] (shown below, right).
Can’t grow a thick mustache? Don’t fret — grow it on your head instead!
The TikTok[15] (shown below, left) received roughly 242,000 plays and 21,900 likes over the course of 10 months. As his hair got longer going into 2021, his bird's nest haircut became more intense. He then began using it as a visual prop, bobbing his head to make the bird's nest bounce.
Hair memes
Overall, the attractiveness of facial hair can be influenced by a combination of biological, psychological, and cultural factors. While not everyone may find facial hair attractive, its appeal to many people may be rooted in evolutionary history and cultural perceptions. On October 8th, Ray William Johnson reacted to one of the haircuts on YouTube,[7] garnering over 3.7 million views in a week (shown below).
Broke? Can’t afford a REAL barber? Call this guy, he will do it for free!
Versions of the bird's nest haircut have been sported and popularized as early as 2015 by celebrities like Justin Bieber, who sported an early version of the haircut at the 2015 American Music Awards[1] (shown below). Some folks are lucky enough to have their hair done by great barbers or hairstylists if that is what you prefer calling them, but there are some who didn’t exactly meet their clients’ expectations. SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — The PG&E power shutoffs have led many to social media to… make light of a dark time. With the massive outpouring of support for Prachi Nigam, a strong counter-narrative emerged. X users challenged the trolls and asserted that her academic brilliance is what deserves the spotlight, not her appearance.
Much better than the Cinnabon hairstyle you seen before, kidding!
In the video, Friseur places a coffee cup on the client's head to show how solid it is. In September 2019, TikToker @talib.lyy made a Duet with a TikToker whose hair resembled a broom. In the Duet, which has since been deleted, @talib.lyy mocked the other TikToker's bird's nest haircut. His TikTok started a Duet chain, sparked by TikToker @saint_savage's Duet[18] that he posted on September 30th, 2019, which received roughly 2.2 million plays and 171,100 likes over the course of two years. Shown below is a YouTube compilation of the Duet chain, posted to YouTube by the channel PCS Girls[19] on November 23rd, 2019, which received roughly 5,300 views over the course of two years.
Another reason why you should not have your haircut on a ship.
On April 14th, 2022, Twitter[16] user based schizo (@tulpapilled) posted an edit of a still image from the business card scene in the 2000 film American Psycho. The tweet (shown below) gained over 860 retweets and 9,600 likes in two months. On August 19th, 2022, the TikToker[1] posted a video of a client with his head covered in ice-looking gel, completely flat on the top.
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Two years later, on March 10th, 2024, TikToker[3] @sincere_ reposted the video with subtitles, receiving over 16.1 million plays and 2.3 million likes in a month (shown below, right). On April 14th, 2022, TikToker[1] @majorkeylife posted a video of one of his customers. He said, "Who the fuck did your hair?" and then pretended that he was on the phone. Shocked and then seemingly offended, the customer said, "What?" and then, "Yeah, you on the phone, right." Over two years, the video gained roughly 9 million plays and 1.2 million likes (shown below). Refers to a viral video of a gas station cashier saying "Who the fuck did your hair?" at a customer who's surprised by the statement, responding, "What?" The cashier then pretends to be talking to someone else on the phone.
Prachi Nigam's story is not just about academic excellence; it's a testament to her resilience in the face of negativity. It also drives home the need to celebrate academic achievements and dismantle unrealistic beauty standards that pressure young women to conform. Many expressed concern over the potential emotional impact of such negativity on a young person. They said her facial hair may be due to polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), a common hormonal condition affecting women of menstrual age.
The original video was posted by TikToker @majorkeylife, known for pranking his customers, in 2022. The video went largely viral on TikTok in early 2024, leading to mass usage as a sound by other creators. Mark Zuckerberg, the tech mogul known for his clean-cut, youthful appearance, has sent the internet into a frenzy with a recent… facial hair transformation? On May 20th, 2022, Twitter[19] user @LeaMaric copied GirlsInMerzbowShirts and JoCrude's post and comment in a tweet that gained over 7,000 retweets and 62,500 likes in two weeks (shown below, right).
Snide remarks and downright sexist takes came Prachi Nigam’s way for having facial hair. Some trolls even resorted to manipulating the teenager’s photo to conform to stereotypical beauty standards. Waves Hairstyle Photoshops, also known as Wave Check and Waves and Air Pods, refer to digitally edited images in which the subject has a curly hairstyle known as "waves" superimposed over their original hair. Often paired with photoshopped AirPods, the edits are considered a development of the AirPod Flexing meme. Going into 2024, people used the TikTok sound[4] of @sincere_122817's repost. For instance, an early viral usage was posted by TikToker[5] @younginbby on March 12th, 2024, receiving over 494,700 plays and 87,700 likes in one month (shown below, left).
Friseur continued to post more "ice haircut" videos following the success of the first. On August 20th, 2022, photos from the first video were shared on /r/FuckMyShitUp,[2] garnering over 150 upvotes in two months. Two days later, the original ice haircut video was featured in a Daily Dose of Internet YouTube[4] video, garnering over 6.6 million views in the same rough span of time.
On October 9th, TikToker[8] @mattsavagesss posted a skit where mocks smashing one of the haircuts with a hammer, garnering over 599,000 views in five days (shown below). On October 13th, YouTuber[9] OMG HUB posted a video about the TikToker, garnering over 49,000 views in a day. On April 14th, 2024, X[7] user @luvinqlex reposted the video, writing, "'whattt' yo this video gets me everytime๐๐๐๐๐," receiving over 6,700 likes in eight days (shown below). Numerous social media users rushed to Prachi Nigam’s defence, condemning the trolls and pushing back against arbitrary beauty standards imposed on young girls.
As early as his fifth TikTok, posted on November 21st, 2015, Bails sports an early version of the hairstyle. The TikTok[7] (shown below, left) received roughly 180,000 plays and 13,200 likes over the course of six years. However, by 2018, Bails' hairstyle had fully evolved into the modern bird's nest.

The Square Head Haircut, also known as the Ice Haircut, refers to a series of videos by hair stylist Friseur Ahmad where he puts an excessive amount of hair gel on a client's head and shapes it, resulting in a thick block of gel that resembles ice. Friseur began posting videos of this to TikTok in August 2022, becoming increasingly popular over the following months. The trend is similar to other eccentric TikTok haircut trends, like the haircuts done by Telo Peluqueria. Another notable internet personality who adopted the bird's nest haircut in 2021 was James Charles who had sported similar versions of the haircut prior to 2021, but not the more consistently known version. An image of Charles trended on Twitter in April 2021, where users joked about Goku being able to land in Charles' hair. In the thread, multiple users posted[11][12] similar edits combined with Gen Z dialogue (example shown below, left).
The TikTok[16] (shown below, right) received roughly 2.7 million plays and 353,500 likes over the course of five months. For example, TikToker @itsnottreylander posted his first TikTok on August 10th, 2020. The TikTok[13] (shown below, left) received roughly 285,500 plays and 3,100 likes over the course of one year. On June 28th, 2016, musician Jacob Sartorious tweeted[2] a selfie of himself in a bathroom mirror with an early version of a bird's nest haircut. Instagram meme page @theroastsofjacob on July 2nd, 2018 posted a meme calling Sartorious' haircut a "birds nest." The post[3] (shown below) received 469 likes and serves as one of the earliest known references to the term regarding the haircut. Starting on May 26th, Instagram user rad_milk posted a series of memes in which various people and characters were given Zoomer Perm and their catchphrases humorously altered with Gen Z slang.