Nina Lin

About

Nina Lin, also known as Truck Girl, is a TikTok content creator known for her deep, raspy voice and her comedy sketch videos on TikTok. In 2021, Nina was featured on Sidetalk NYC as "Truck Girl." In 2023, Nina found herself going viral again after a video of her receiving a portrait was shared on Twitter, with people commenting on her surprising "Black" sounding New York accent and comparing her to Awkwafina.

Background

Nina Lin began posting videos to her TikTok page in May 2020 and has amassed over 900,000 followers since. She primarily posts content about living in New York and sometimes makes videos about self-defense tactics women can use while living in the city.

Her earliest video^[1] was posted on May 19th, 2020, gathering over 120,000 plays and 5,000 likes in three years (seen below, left). On April 4th, 2021, Nina^[2] posted a video that gathered over 8.4 million plays and 2 million likes in two years (seen below, right).

On January 3rd, 2021, the YouTube^[3] page Sidetalk posted a video of Nina, calling her "Truck Girl." The video gathered over 390,000 plays and 15,000 likes in two years (seen below).

Online History

On October 28th, 2021, TikToker^[4] @devonrodriguezart posted a video captioned, "giving her a drawing of herself." The video showed him drawing a pencil portrait of Nina, and her thanking him profusely. The original upload on TikTok gathered over 15,000 plays and 2 million likes in six months.

On May 11th, 2023, Twitter^[5] page @huge_dub reposted the video to Twitter, gathering over 71.5 million views and 180,000 likes in a week (seen below).

Response to the aforementioned video was mixed, with some commentators recognizing Nina from her appearance on Sidetalk and her own TikTok channel, while others expressed surprise and derision at her accent. For example, on May 13th, 2023, Twitter^[6] user @VirginHoelite posted a video of Nina responding to comments about her voice, and explaining her background and upbringing in NYC that led her to develop her accent. The post gathered over 290,000 views and 2,000 likes in four days (seen below).

On May 14th, 2023, Twitter^[7] user @itszaeok quote tweeted a video of Nina speaking with the caption, "If that's rlly how she talk then she need to code switch no shade but I don't care omg," gathering over 63,000 likes in three days (seen below, left). On May 11th, Twitter^[8] user @Sturgeons_Law defended Nina, saying, "Replies are calling this a post-Awkwafina thing but a bunch of white + Asian girls in my high school sounded like this. It was their way of fitting in, same way some minorities might "sound white" at a white majority school." The post gathered over 4,500 likes in a week (seen below, right).

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