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Haliey Aliene Welch ( HAY-lee; born 2003 or 2004), commonly referred to as the Hawk Tuah Girl, is an American internet personality. She became an internet meme after being interviewed in a viral 2024 TikTok video in which she used a catchphrase, hawk tuah, an onomatopoeia for spitting on a penis as a form of oral sex, specifically fellatio. She is also known for her podcast Talk Tuah and a cryptocurrency coin which faced criticism following release.
Welch is from Belfast, Tennessee, and worked in a bedspring factory prior to internet fame. As of 2024, she lives in Nashville, Tennessee, with her paternal grandmother, who raised her. On Howie Mandel Does Stuff, a podcast hosted by Jewish-Canadian comedian Howie Mandel, Welch performed a five-minute DNA saliva test live which revealed she allegedly had 97.7% Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry. The test’s efficacy was questioned by the Jewish website Jewlicious. Welch herself claims no knowledge of her family’s heritage. In 2024, Welch claimed in a conversation with Whitney Cummings that her mother, with whom she is no longer in contact, was a crack user and she herself was born a crack baby.
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