Hot Girl Walk

The term was first used in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic by Mia Lind, at that time a senior of the University of Southern California.^[2] She began taking walks as a means of relieving stress^[2][3] and promoted the concept on TikTok under her account "exactlyliketheothergirls" in January 2021.^{[4][5][6][1][7][8][9][10]}

The term was later trademarked by Lind,^[3][11] who subsequently founded a wellness company with the same name.^[12]