Duke Dennis Eating Grapes / 🥷's Will Do Anything To Look Cool

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Duke Dennis Eating Grapes, also known as 🥷's Tryna Look Cool Doing Anything or POV: Dudes Will Do Anything To Look Cool, refers to a TikTok trend parodying a viral video showing Twitch streamer and YouTuber Duke Dennis shaking his grapes like dice before eating them. In August and September 2024, the clip inspired a trend in which teens satirized behavioral quirks employed by men to give off a suave, nonchalant and cool vibe.

Origin

In March 2024, a video of Duke Dennis standing in front of his fridge and eating grapes began making the rounds online. The video showed the streamer pulling grapes out of a bag and shaking them in his fist like dice before dropping them in his mouth. TikToker^[1] @realadinfinesserplug reposted the clip on March 12th, 2024, gathering over 1 million plays and 500,000 likes in six months.

On August 26th, 2024, TikToker^[2] @obthingz_ posted a video captioned, "🥷's be tryin to look cool doing anything," gathering over 2 million plays and 480,000 likes in a month.

On August 29th, 2024, TikToker^[3] @glory2kev reposted the video with the caption, "🥷's be tryna look cool no matter what they doin," gathering over 4 million plays and 800,000 likes in a month.

Spread

The trend picked up on TikTok in early September 2024, with TikToker^[4] @vitosinterlude satirizing Duke Dennis's grape-eating video by showing himself shaking water before drinking it from his hand. The post gathered over 14 million plays and 2 million likes in two weeks.

On September 15th, TikToker^[5] @.w41do posted a similar video, writing, "🥷s will do anything to look cool," gathering over 1 million views and 100,000 likes in a week.

Duke Dennis Responds To The Eating Grapes Trend

In September 2024, Duke Dennis then responded to the trend of people making fun of the way he ate grapes, saying that people were blowing things out of proportion. He made a reference to a Phillip Benjamin Hudson video in which he eats Skittles and shakes them in his hand so they don't get sticky, adding that people in real life "don't talk like that." Dennis also made fun of the phrase "aura farming."^[6]

The July 29th, 2021, Phillip Benjamin Hudson video Duke was referencing is shown below.

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