About

0.5 GPA Activities refers to a TikTok trend that began in December 2024 with high school students sharing videos of sculptures made of fruits and plastic utensils. As the trend continued to gain traction in early 2025, it grew increasingly destructive, showing students damaging wall sockets in their classrooms with tinfoil, or performing Chromebook Durability Tests by purposefully trying to damage their school-issued laptops. The trend also saw overlap with the F students trend in May 2025, after business and fitness influencer Ben Azoulay posted a TikTok account (@kingazoulay) claiming that students who receive F grades are the "inventors" in society.

Origin

The earliest known "X GPA activities" video is an October 30th, 2024, TikTok^[1] posted by @someoneslick, showing a group of students constructing a grotesque cafeteria leftover sculpture using a half-eaten apple, plastic forks, and chocolate milk. The video gathered over 750,000 plays and 100,000 likes in seven months.

Spread

On December 17th, 2024, a video posted by TikToker^[3] @turtle___674 showed a sculpture made out of several plastic forks and broccoli bits stuck into an orange. The video gathered over 1.7 million views and 320,000 likes in six months.

On January 31st, 2025, TikToker^[2] @purplepercussion shared a clip of the percussion section in their school band stacking their mallets and drumsticks in increasingly precarious ways with a text overlay that read, "4.0 GPA activities," gathering over 200,000 views and 28,000 likes in four months.

On March 21st, TikToker^[4] @genloser_amri.3k posted a version of the meme showing a scrap of paper labeled "fone" stuck in the designated mobile phone deposit pockets at a school, gathering over 2.6 million views and 430,000 likes in a month.

On May 7th, TikToker^[5] @sourkangarooo posted a video showing a student swiping his AirPod on a Chromebook in a way that makes the computer screen go blank. The text on the video read, "0.1 gpa activities," and the video appears to be part of the Chromebook durability test trend.

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