A Lorde song about gender fluidity became a meme about toxic behavior with more than 83,000 videos in the tag.

A TikTok trend has women sharing screenshots and voice notes that call men out for their bad behavior to a new Lorde song — ironically captioning them ”#ManOfTheYear”.

But what’s supposed to be an empowering trend for women to stand up against emotional abuse and mistreatment has been overshadowed by the “good men” of the Internet who are utterly shocked by the stories they’re hearing.

Content creator Jordan Johnson, who goes by @Swifieinkc on TikTok, created a stitch response to one male content creator’s post. In the video, a male content creator questioned the participants by asking them where they were finding these awful men:

“I don’t know a single guy in my life who would text a woman like that,” said the male creator in the stitch. “Where are you finding these dudes”?

“Yes, you do,” Jordan responded. “In fact, statistics show that probably most of the men in your life have treated at least one woman like that at some point. They just don’t tell you how they treat women.”

“I had seen so many men in comment sections surprised by a lot of the texts displayed in this trend,” Johnson told HuffPost, explaining why she created this video. “But as a woman, while a lot of the messages in the trend were jarring and scary, none of them were surprising.”

Let’s Hear It For #ManOfTheYear

The #ManOfTheYear trend started shortly after Lorde released her song “Man of the Year” on May 29, 2025. While the song is about Lorde’s experience with gender fluidity, listeners found........

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