Transfer apart, purple flags: We are actually coming into an period of 'beige flags,' or what TikTokers are calling random behavioral quirks that aren’t nice (however not horrible)

• The time period ‘beige flag’ dates again to 2022, however it’s grow to be more and more fashionable on TikTok these days.
• Customers are utilizing it to endearingly expose their companions’ odd and in any other case random behavioral traits.
• One individual described the time period to Insider as one thing between a purple and a inexperienced flag.

Social media has grow to be an obsessive place to dissect “purple” and “inexperienced” flags in potential companions — typically nearly dropping any that means, the place any trait could be labeled nice or alarming.

Today, a brand new classification is arising on TikTok: “beige flags.” Hordes of customers on the app are utilizing the time period to reveal their companions’ funniest persona traits or inexplicable behavioral tics — issues that do not fall squarely within the purple or inexperienced flag territory, as one TikToker described it to Insider.

In a single viral TikTok posted on Wednesday, consumer @mikegotchalk stated his girlfriend’s beige flag will not be figuring out “her left and rights” regardless of having a “GPS in her mind.”

The TikToker Bronte Crawley made one of many development’s hottest movies, amassing over 9.5 million views in 5 days, whereby she outs her boyfriend’s very particular quirk. In response to Crawley, her boyfriend purposefully wears underpants with holes in them so he can shock her by tearing them off all of a sudden and leaving solely his waistband standing.

“He calls it the ‘grand reveal’ and it all the time occurs once I least count on it,” she wrote on-screen.

Feedback are flooded with questions asking what a “beige flag” is, and joking that her boyfriend’s behavior might be nearer to a beloved inexperienced flag trait.

“Beige is a bizarre option to spell inexperienced,” one prime remark, with over 37,000 votes, learn.

Crawley informed Insider she thinks a beige flag is one thing between a optimistic and unfavorable trait. “To me a beige flag is one thing not fairly inexperienced and never fairly purple,” she stated.

“Though the flag I discussed I’d think about extra on the inexperienced aspect, it isn’t a traditional trait you’d search for in a associate,” she stated about her viral TikTok. “And a few individuals may think about it a purple flag.”

Nick Speer, an 18-year-old TikToker who made a well-liked video about how his girlfriend’s beige flag is that she “will all the time make herself extra snug” in any state of affairs, agreed that it sits someplace between purple and inexperienced — or, maybe, in its personal class.

“It is simply one thing that makes you assume for a number of seconds and say, ‘Hmm that is bizarre,’ and then you definitely transfer on,” he stated.

The origin of the ‘beige flag’ seems to be from a TikToker

The time period “beige flag” dates again to Might 2022, when consumer @itscaito posted a video utilizing the phrase. In her inaugural video, she claims to have coined the time period, and added that she believes they’re extra prevalent in relationship conditions than purple flags.

In response to @itscaito, beige flags are attributes that counsel a possible associate may very well be “boring” (like if they’ve an opinion on pineapple pizza, or different chronically overused solutions on relationship profiles).

Her use of the phrase made information in 2022. Nevertheless, during the last month, it appears to haven’t solely gained huge new reputation with new customers, however the time period has additionally barely modified its that means. Individuals are actually utilizing it to explain their vital others’ foolish or clumsy-yet-endearing traits.

The preferred movies beneath the hashtag “beige flags” have been posted this month, and several other in simply the previous few days. 

@Itscaito, who calls herself the “CEO of beige flags” in her TikTok bio, appears irritated by how the time period’s definition has crept away from its origins.

She made a TikTok earlier this week evenly mocking the brand new “beige flag” movies and reminding individuals why she invented the phrase. 

“These usually are not beige flags. These are annoying slash disgusting issues that your associate does,” she stated. “As you and I each know, a beige flag is one thing on a single individual’s relationship profile that exhibits with out assembly them that they could be actually fucking boring.”

“PEOPLE NEED TO RESPECT THE OG BEIGE FLAGGER,” one viewer wrote.

Insider reached out to @itscaito for remark.

Regardless of her ire, the vary for what’s thought of a beige flag has expanded tremendously. And they are often extremely random.

Examples embrace one individual’s boyfriend who has highway rage however then acts tremendous candy in different situations; a lady who interrupts TV exhibits or motion pictures each 5 minutes to ask what is going on to occur subsequent; and a associate who steathily holds a strawberry of their mouth to put it of their vital different’s mouth once they kiss.

For probably the most half, the development is light-hearted and well-intentioned. Individuals appear to be having fun with the prospect to share an odd trait with hundreds of thousands of strangers. Different customers are then in a position to debate within the remark sections about how they really feel about it, and whether or not the attribute is extra of a purple or inexperienced flag.

Speer informed Insider that many of the feedback he is obtained have been from different {couples} having the ability to see themselves in his beige flag movies.

“I like the way it brings {couples} collectively and permits them to narrate to one another in a enjoyable, cute approach,” he stated.