Plushh

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Overview

Plushh or TheOfficialPlush, also known as the Toronto Accent Girl, is a Canadian influencer, TikToker and pop artist known best for her thick Toronto accent. Plushh first went viral in May 2022 for her "Balling Up Rules" viral video, in which she talks about the supposed rules around smoking marijuana in Toronto, inspiring lip dubs and reactions to her accent online. She went viral again in October 2023 after her appearance on the Seeking Success Podcast, again inspiring discourse about the Toronto accent.

Online History

Plushh's first available social media post is a collection of photos posted to her Instagram^[1] page, theofficialplushh, on November 9th, 2018. In 2019, Plushh began pursuing a music career, often advertising her music on Instagram. On September 5th, 2019, she released her first song and music video, "REMY," to her YouTube^[2] channel, The Official Plush, garnering over 17,000 views in four years (shown below).

On November 2nd, 2020, Plushh began posting content to her TikTok^[3] page, @TheOfficialPlushh. She has consistently posted videos throughout the 2020s, with her content including lip dubs, comedy skits, Toronto-related videos and videos referencing smoking marijuana (examples from 2020 shown below). Between April 20th, 2020 and June 29th, 2021, Plushh released three more songs on YouTube,^[4]^[5]^[6] "Legalize Happiness," "Lackin'" and "Finest."

Balling Up Rules Video

On May 15th, 2022, Plushh posted a video on TikTok^[7] captioned, "Toronto literally has balling up rules," where she describes Toronto's "balling up rules," meaning weed smoking rules, in her signature Toronto accent while using a variety of popular Toronto slang words, many of which are derived from Jamaican patois (shown below). The video gained over 2.1 million views in a month.

In Toronto we literally have balling up rules. If the spliff is itah, don't even pass it to me. If we link to ball up and you don't even have your own, like I – I'm not passing my ting to you, styll. Please, if you put a filter on your splizzy or your blizzy, no don't even pass that shit to me. And everyone knows like, if you don't really like the person you better have your own fully splizzy, you know, because we're not sharing. If your grabba smells funny, and we all know that one person who swears they have the best grabba and then it smells like crazy bad, like you know it's not hot, I'm not smoking it. Leave in the comments what other rules about balling up y'all have.

The video inspired numerous reactions across social media and videos on TikTok. Many of the reactions are aimed towards Plushh's accent, with some criticizing the way it sounds (examples shown below).

You Left Your Moms In The Hood Video

On August 3rd, 2023, YouTubers^[8] Seeking Success Podcast posted an interview with Plushh, a Toronto influencer known for her heavy Toronto accent. During the interview, she criticizes YouTuber K Showtime for allegedly leaving his mom in the hood despite his success and moving into a condo. At the 49:24 mark, Plushh continues to talk about K Showtime allegedly leaving his mom in the hood, saying that if it's true someone should "smoke that yute," essentially meaning, "kill that kid," and calling him a "sick to my stomach" (shown below). The video gained over 3,400 views in two months. On October 4th, the @seekingsuccesspodcast TikTok^[9] page posted the clip of Plushh talking about K Showtime, garnering over 4.7 million views in two weeks.

Similarly to the "balling up rules" video, this clip went viral across social media, inspiring reactions about Plushh's accent, along with lip dub videos on TikTok (examples shown below).

Online Presence

Plushh has over 100,000 followers on her TikTok page, @TheOfficialPlushh and 10,000 followers on her Instagram page, The OfficialPlushh.

Following the success of the "balling up rules" video, Plushh began to appear in videos with other creators. On August 5th, 2022, TikToker^[10] @blocktalkto posted a man-on-the-street interview segment with Plushh that gained over 4 million views in a year (shown below).

On January 3rd, 2023, the Channel 5 Clips YouTube^[11] channel posted a clip from a video about Toronto featuring an interview with Plushh, garnering over 261,000 views in nine months (shown below, left). On September 13th, YouTuber^[12] Waveroom featured Plushh as a judge in a "Guess The Toronto Man" game show, garnering over 141,000 views in a month (shown below, right).