On June 29th, Urban Dictionary user that ginger girl defined 'little shirt big pants girl' as ''A new breed of “indie” or “alt” girl.
The video gained over 66,800 likes in a month. On June 13th, 2020, TikToker urclubpenguinboyfriend uploaded a video explaining the typical personality of every little/big shirt little/big pants combination (shown below, left).
On August 16th, Vice published an article called, 'Searching for The Big Pants/Little Shirt Girl' which commented on the rising trend of wearing small shirts with large pants. The tweet garnered over 73,700 likes and 7,200 retweets in a year. On May 21st, 2019, Twitter user tweeted, 'just saw a big pants little shirt girl with bangs perk her ears and look around dramatically when she heard a skateboard in the distance.
