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Girls With An Eyebrow Slit Can't Have a Ube Cupcake From Buttercup Bake Shop refers to a series of memes based on a viral video of TikToker @aminathree eating an ube cupcake from Buttercup Bake Shop after saying, "Who said girls with an eyebrow slit can't have a ube cupcake from Buttercup Bake Shop." The video was uploaded in late April 2025 and inspired memes about girls with eyebrow slits not being allowed to eat ube cupcakes from Buttercup Bake Shop, including videos and comments on TikTok. The original video is inspired by the Girls With Brown Hair Can't Wear Jeans meme and, more directly, the Who Said Girls With Honey Blonde Hair and Highlights Can't Eat a Chicken Pot Pie From KFC meme by the same TikToker.

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Precursors

On April 24th, 2016, Twitter^[6] / X user @champagnearii posted two photos of herself in a crop top and jeans alongside a caption that read, "And they say girls with brown hair can't wear jeans." The post gathered over 1,000 likes and 400 retweets before the account was deleted, inspiring a series of memes.

On February 17th, 2025, TikToker^[7] @aminathree posted a TikTok presumably eating a chicken pot pie from the fast-food chain KFC alongside text that read, "Who said girls with honey blonde hair and highlights can't eat a chicken pot pie from KFC." The post gathered over 3.7 million plays and 400,000 likes in three days.

Who Said Girls With An Eyebrow Slit Can't Have a Ube Cupcake From Buttercup Bake Shop

On April 28th, 2025, TikToker^[1] @aminathree posted a video tagging the Buttercup Bake Shop in New York City in which she holds an ube cupcake and says, "Who said girls with an eyebrow slit can't have a ube cupcake from Buttercup Bake Shop." She then takes a bite of the cupcake. The video gained over 7.1 million views in roughly two weeks.

Spread

The video became the subject of memes over the following days. For example, on April 30th, 2025, TikToker^[2] @feelingshelly posted a video saying, "This is just your daily reminder that if you're a girl with an eyebrow slit, you cannot have an ube cupcake from Buttercup Bake Shop," garnering over 1.4 million views in just over a week.

On May 1st, TikToker^[3] @ali.bradleys.artt, who has an eyebrow slit, posted a video captioned, "Lowkey craving an Ube cupcake from buttercup bake shop," garnering over 898,000 views in a week.

On the same day, TikToker^[4] @ayyitsleo posted a video in which he reacts with shock under the caption, "Me in 20 years when my daughter with an eyebrow slit says she's so hungry that she can eat an ube cupcake from Buttercup Bake Shop," garnering over 541,000 views in the same span of time.

On May 6th, 2025, X^[5] user @Yssaint47 posted a meme showing Vi from Arcane eating an ube cupcake, captioned, "Eyebrow slit.. ube cupcake…," garnering over 800 likes in three days.

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