Penn Badgley's Humorous Take on a Viral TikTok Trend

Penn Badgley, the actor from “Gossip Girl” and Netflix’s “You,” took part in the viral TikTok trend of very demure, very mindful, but did so with humor. On his last day of shooting season 5 of “You” in New York, Badgley and Netflix made a video for Instagram in which the artist was pretending to listen carefully.

In about a minute and a half, Badgley and Netflix made fun of their films. The artist is imitating a very calm, very mindful, and very demure way of being. In the meantime, during the inspirational musical accompaniment, the video is shown how Badgley is energetically waving his arms on the court, boxing, actively screaming, and portraying a maniac.

The video references Jools Lebron’s viral TikTok, where she did the same in response to her colleague’s casual, too loud “Hey!” The video quickly diverged, and the phrase very demure, very mindful became a trend spreading on social media. Many stars began to actively use this phrase for their manifestations on the Web. The situation shows how a consumer cultural product replicates the most striking phenomena even on a conditional professional level.