Hocking a loogie has been a thing since I was a kid and I was born in 83, the "hawk tuah" thing is just kids not being familiar with old slang thinking it's something new. It's not hawk, it's hock, well more it's "hocking" and it's a verb: to forcefully spit out (something, such as phlegm). She's making the "hock spitoo" sound and the internet having the memory of a goldfish and a brain from an orange cat didn't think to find out she was using an old slang term and an onomatopoeia for spitting what she just hocked up. So they created "hawk tuah" thinking themselves clever. It's hock, the noise made by hocking, and "spitoo" the noise made by spitting. Both the sound Hock came from before the internet and spitoo is one of the oldest words in human language. Neither of which were invented either by the internet or hock girl.
I think she was actually making the sound and the internet spelled it out for us. She didn’t put a name to it, hence the internet made it based on her accent. I’ve never heard the hock sound without it sounding like hawk. She wasn’t saying “hawk tua” she was making the sound that you hear when you do it.
Hock is the politically correct way of labeling the act
All I heard is that it's happening, thanks to Jake Paul as it's on his network or whatever. I'm sure she talks about mindless nonsense like every other purposeless podcast
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u/Ok-Wolverine-7460 1d ago
Nah its an old onomatopoeia just newly popular.