"Put a Girl On" Taco Bell Phone Prank

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About

The "Put a Girl On" Taco Bell Phone Prank refers to a prank that involves calling a fast-food restaurant and repeatedly asking the male employee who answers to put a girl on the phone. The trend was started on TikTok by a TikToker named @putagirlon who began by calling a Taco Bell every day until they put a girl on. His series of viral videos documenting the stunt-inspired memes that imagined the reaction of the Taco Bell employees hearing the phrase "put a girl on." In many of the videos, the employees get extraordinarily mad and berate the prankster on the phone. In some of the clips, the TikToker showed up at the actual Taco Bell location where the employees threw drinks, yelled and attacked him.

Origin

On July 20th, 2024, TikToker^[1] @putagirlon posted a video that was "Day 8 of prank calling the same Taco Bell until he puts a girl on." In the video, the TikToker pretends to be a woman on the phone and then says in a deep voice, "Put a girl on." The video is the first on the TikToker's profile, though prior videos could have been deleted or removed. The TikTok received over 1.1 million plays and 138,200 likes in three months (shown below).

Spread

TikToker @putagirlon continued the prank series going into August 2024. For instance, on August 22nd, 2024, he posted a TikTok^[2] that showed "Day 40" of the prank in which he was sitting in the Taco Bell parking lot and told the employees where he was. Quickly, one of the employees came outside and threw drinks at his car window. Over a month, the video received over 3.5 million plays and 391,900 likes (shown below).

On August 28th, Twitch streamer PaymoneyWubby discussed and reacted to the "Put a Girl On" series of pranks during his livestream. The following day, a reupload of the stream including the segment was posted to the YouTube archive channel for the streamer, receiving over 26,000 views and 250 likes in three weeks (seen below).

On September 1st, 2024, @putagirlon posted a TikTok^[3] showing a "#putagirlon on meet up at the Taco Bell" restaurant he'd been prank calling. The video showed a crowd of people gathered in the parking lot. Over 17 days, the video received roughly 669,200 plays and 79,000 likes (shown below).

Around the same time, the TikToker^[4] stopped calling the Taco Bell location and moved on to calling a local Popeyes that he called a "chicken spot."

In September 2024, other TikTokers began posting memes that referenced the "Put a Girl On" prank, such as TikToker^[5] @ethanol_dabeast on August 30th, 2024, who captioned a Spider-Man video, "Fast food mfs tweaking after hearing put a girl on over the phone," gaining over 240,400 plays and 50,600 likes in 19 days (shown below).

On September 14th, 2024, X^[6] user @InternetH0F reposted a compilation of @putagirlon's prank videos, receiving over 2.8 million views and 40,000 likes in four days (shown below).

Users in the replies joked about the prankster's videos, like X^[7] user @karnaownsyou on September 14th, who screenshotted a moment when he got hit with a drink, captioning it, "I respect bro taking the hit for our entertainment," gaining over 1,300 likes in four days (shown below).