‘Hawk Tuah’ girl’s latest viral video an embarrassment

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Haliey Welch’s 15 minutes of fame could be coming to an end after she was met with silence during an appearance at a Alabama music festival this week.

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Welch, 22, became a social media superstar last month after she shared her bold go-to sex tip in a viral interview that blew up on YouTube, Twitter and TikTok.

In a man-about-the-street video from YouTubers Tim & Dee TV, Welch was asked, “What’s one move in bed that makes a man go crazy every time?”

Welch’s unfiltered, X-rated reply was an instant hit when she cheekily responded, “You gotta give ’em that ‘hawk tuah’ and spit on that thang.”

The NSFW clip took off like wildfire, with over 6 million views on YouTube and becoming a topic of conversation for everyone from Joe Rogan to Howard Stern to the Philadelphia Phillies’ Bryce Harper. Logan Paul even spat out the viral phrase during a WWE match.

According to Forbes, videos that have been uploaded using the hashtag #hawktuah have garnered millions of views and hundreds of thousands of likes.

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Welch even partied with former NBA great Shaquille O’Neal when he DJed at Jon Bon Jovi’s new Nashville hot spot and joined country star Zach Bryan onstage at Nashville’s Nissan Stadium.

Rolling Stone reported that merchandise with the graphic sex phrase has already racked up $65,000 in sales.

“She’s probably one of the most well-known people in the world at this point. But I don’t know if she’s embraced it,” Fathead Threads brand manager Jason Poteete told the outlet.

Of course, talent agencies came knocking with Welch inking a deal with management firm The Penthouse.

“The world’s gone crazy for Haliey!  I’m glad our team can help guide this rocketship. All the podcasters are right, spend five minutes with her and you’ll see why she is America’s sweetheart,” The Penthouse founder Jonnie Forster said in a statement obtained by The Hollywood Reporter.

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But people might be losing interest after Welch was seen fruitlessly trying to rev up the crowd at the Rock The South Festival in Cullman, Alabama, over the weekend.

In a new viral video that has already racked up nearly 12 million views, Welch is brought onstage to introduce Warren Zeiders and Jelly Roll. But her attempts to illicit cheers are met with deafening silence after she enthusiastically bellowed, “Let’s hear it for Warren Zeiders and Jelly Roll!”

“This is awkward,” Twitter user @Scubaryan captioned the clip in a post shared with his nearly 400,000 followers on X. “The ‘Hawk Tuah’ girl showed up onstage at a concert and no one cheered for her.”

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“Her 15 minutes are up,” one follower commented, with another snarking, “Her ‘I’m Famous’ free trial ran out.”

“She was June. This is July. Time’s up,” a third person swiped.

But not everyone was cheering on Welch’s apparent demise.

“Girl was smart milking every opportunity she got for that ‘hawk’ s— and now securing the bag,” one supporter wrote, with another adding, “What I think is dope is she’s actually shown she’s a good person and done a lot with her 15 mins of fame compared to others we keep making famous for some ungodly reason.”

“She’s much better to watch than the political bulls— we’ve been looking at,” another fan wrote. “More Hawk Tuah.”

Tennis star Nick Kyrgios also took aim at Welch after she appeared at Jake Paul’s boxing match with Mike Perry last weekend.

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“No correlation between fame and actually being decent at something anymore,” Kyrgios tweeted.

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When asked about Kyrgios’ comments, Welch told TMZ: “Let me put it this way, I don’t wake up and hate on anybody else, I don’t understand why people do that.”

After she became a viral sensation, Welch told Briana LaPaglia on her Plan Bri Uncut podcast that she “s— a brick” when she discovered she had become internet famous.

Welch had learned she had gone “massive” as she was getting ready to work her graveyard shift at a spring factory.

“I was like, ‘Oh, this is kind of funny. It’s not going to get any bigger than this,’” when she first saw the video taking off. “I went back an hour later and the views had gone up by like a million.”

As her fame took off, Welch said she’s gotten the oddest requests. “The guy that does my hats got offered $600 three days ago for me to spit in a jar and sell it,” she revealed. “This is revolting. That’s just disgusting, is it not?”

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Welch also maintains she wants to be known for more than just her catchphrase, revealing that she’s turned down Playboy and will not be setting up an OnlyFans page no matter how many people ask her.

“Stop asking me about the link in bio for my OnlyFans,” she said on Instagram. “I don’t have an OnlyFans and there’ll never be an OnlyFans. I just make funny jokes, that’s all I do.”

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