EIt comes straight out of one of those American TV films that invade the screens from October onwards. Big wool scarf, skinny jeans, long wavy brown hair, Ugg boots on her feet, luxury bag under her arm and steaming coffee in her hand, the “christian girl” is to fall what pumpkin is to Halloween. She has been played for four years by Caitlin Covington, 33, American fashion and lifestyle influencer, 1.3 million subscribers on Instagramwho has become the face of the season across the Atlantic.
From September 26, when the temperatures were worthy of August, this thirty-year-old born in the state of North Carolina filmed herself in a striped dress with her famous brown boots, in front of the door of her home. her, already decorated with Halloween decorations. On TikTok, #christiangirlautumn already has more than 126 million views. It is impossible for the queen of dead leaves not to take advantage of this lucrative chestnut tree that this nevertheless archipagan festival has become.
It all started for this blogger when she posted, in 2019, a photo (taken in 2016 in Highlands [Caroline du Nord]) of her with her friend Emily Gemma, both wearing the famous combo: scarf, jeans, ankle boots. A few days later, user Isabella Markel, known at the time under the alias @lasagnabby, took this image and tweeted it with the caption: “The Hot Girl Summer [mantra incitant à l’amour de soi et à son propre plaisir estival] is coming to an end, get ready for Christian Girl Autumn 🍂😍. »
Christian Girl Autumn Meme Goes Viral and Retweets 12,000 Times in Five Days. In their comments, mocking Internet users insinuate that Caitlin is a stuck-up and racist Republican, a tweet thus implying that she believes that Africa is a country.
“Yes, I am the queen of autumn”
Rather than getting offended, the influencer then plays on this popularity, responding with four photos of herself, each more stereotypical than the other, as if saying “yes, I am the queen of autumn “. Then specifying that she is not a Republican, that she supports Black Lives Matter as well as the LGBTQIA+ community. To prove it, this practicing Christian blogger donated 500 euros to the Internet user who had mocked her, to help finance her gender transition. A good way to thank the woman who contributed so much to her notoriety.
Since then, every year, before the landscape turns red, Christian Girl Autumn puts on her seasonal outfits and organizes her shoot. In October, she rented an SUV and traveled the 1,400 kilometers that separate her from Vermont, in the northeast of the United States, an ideal setting for photos, with its streets strewn with dead leaves, and always a church in the background.
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