Recently, teens have been wearing formal attire to movie theaters to watch “Minions: The Rise of Gru,” which has sparked a recent trend worldwide called
#gentleminions
.
The trend involves (mostly) teenage boys going to their local movie theaters in full suits, dress shirts, and sometimes sunglasses. These teens are gaining 65.4 million views from the hashtag on TikTok alone.
In a video that received nearly 170,000 likes and more than 1 million views, more than 20 dressed teenage boys in Singapore ascend in a line on an escalator. Then, they walk out of frame, expressionless and with stiff posture. The video is overlaid with the text “22 tickets for Minions: Rise of GRU please.”
The boys in the video say that the now viral clip is more of a coincidence than planning or intention. In fact, many of the boys in the video had never met before, but decided a video with this many participants was too good to miss.
During the whole thing, the boys also admitted the embarrassment they experienced.
“Doing these types of things, you actually get a lot of stares,” said Devan Rajen, 18-year-old student pictured in the video, who posted the video from his own TikTok account. “People probably thought we were humiliating ourselves.”
Other videos have shown the supposed
#gentleminions
being nothing but annoying; starting mosh pits in theaters, disrupting the film for others, and generally just being noisy teens. It could also be called “the opposite of gentle.”
So why do teenagers do the things teenagers do? Well, Joshua Law, an 18-year-old student gave a very accurate answer.
“I think we’re just bored. There’s not really anything else better to do.”
#gentleminions
.
The trend involves (mostly) teenage boys going to their local movie theaters in full suits, dress shirts, and sometimes sunglasses. These teens are gaining 65.4 million views from the hashtag on TikTok alone.
In a video that received nearly 170,000 likes and more than 1 million views, more than 20 dressed teenage boys in Singapore ascend in a line on an escalator. Then, they walk out of frame, expressionless and with stiff posture. The video is overlaid with the text “22 tickets for Minions: Rise of GRU please.”
The boys in the video say that the now viral clip is more of a coincidence than planning or intention. In fact, many of the boys in the video had never met before, but decided a video with this many participants was too good to miss.
During the whole thing, the boys also admitted the embarrassment they experienced.
“Doing these types of things, you actually get a lot of stares,” said Devan Rajen, 18-year-old student pictured in the video, who posted the video from his own TikTok account. “People probably thought we were humiliating ourselves.”
Other videos have shown the supposed
#gentleminions
being nothing but annoying; starting mosh pits in theaters, disrupting the film for others, and generally just being noisy teens. It could also be called “the opposite of gentle.”
So why do teenagers do the things teenagers do? Well, Joshua Law, an 18-year-old student gave a very accurate answer.
“I think we’re just bored. There’s not really anything else better to do.”