About

Pineapple Dapping Up the Whole Fruit Bowl is a coded, slang catchphrase, part of the Fruit Code Names for Crushes trend, predominantly used by women on TikTok in which "fruit bowl" is code for the men that the woman has slept with (or, alternatively, all of her crushes) and "pineapple" is code for the man that she is currently sleeping with (or, alternatively, just one of her crushes).

Inherently, the verb "dapping," or "to dap," is a modern, AAVE term for a shake-like greeting that is commonplace among straight men. In turn, women reference pineapple dapping up the fruit bowl as a way to portray shock or disgust over how all the men that she has slept with (or has crushes on) know each other, likely to be awkward in the long-run. Women making fruit-based code names for their crushes or partners became a viral topic on TikTok in early 2023, leading to the creation of the "dapping up the whole fruit bowl" joke later in the year.

Origin

On January 5th, 2023, TikToker^[1] @fsnotsabrina posted a video with text reading, "when strawberry asks who strawberry is," gaining roughly 3.1 million plays and 563,000 likes in eight months (shown below, left). The video is currently the first-known reference to fruit-based code names for male crushes. On January 7th, TikToker^[2] @…positive..vibez posted a video with an almost identical caption, replacing the word "strawberry" with "pineapple," gaining roughly 2.1 million plays and 540,700 likes in eight months (shown below, right).

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Soon after, the fruit code names became more elaborate. For instance, on January 20th, 2023, TikToker^[3] @tomhdsn posted a video reading, "when strawberry sends you a snap with pineapple and orange chilling in the background," in reference to the website Snapchat, gaining roughly 1.4 million plays and 354,900 likes in eight months (shown below, left). A few months later, on March 26th, 2023, TikToker^[4] @allynbeavers posted a video reading, "when pineapple snaps you and the whole fruit basket is there," gaining roughly 59,500 plays and 8,100 likes in six months (shown below, right).

On May 1st, 2023, TikToker^[5] @cynthiaaasaucedo posted a video with text reading, "when we see pineapple and the whole fruit bowl," gaining roughly 786,400 plays and 193,800 likes in four months (shown below, left). On June 11th, 2023, TikToker^[6] @444.jzmn posted a video reading, "When I see 'pineapple' dap up the whole fruit bowl," officially coining the "dap up the whole fruit bowl" iteration, gaining roughly 3 million plays and 594,500 likes in three months (shown below, right).

Memetic usage of "pineapple," "fruit bowl" and "strawberry," among other fruit code names, continued to go viral on TikTok^[7][8] leading into September 2023.

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