• The term ‘beige flag’ dates back to 2022, but it’s become increasingly popular on TikTok nowadays.
• Users are using it to endearingly expose their partners’ odd and otherwise random behavioral traits.
• One person described the term to Insider as something between a red and a green flag.

Social media has become an obsessive place to dissect “red” and “green” flags in prospective partners – sometimes almost losing any meaning, where any trait can be labeled great or alarming.

These days, a new classification is arising on TikTok: “beige flags.” Hordes of users on the app are using the term to expose their partners’ funniest personality traits or inexplicable behavioral tics – things that don’t fall squarely in the red or green flag territory, as one TikToker described it to Insider.

In her inaugural video, she claims to have coined the term, and added that she believes they are more prevalent in dating situations than red flags

In one viral TikTok posted on Wednesday, user said his girlfriend’s beige flag is not knowing “her left and rights” despite having a “GPS in her brain.”

The TikToker Bronte Crawley made one of the trend’s most popular videos, amassing over 9.5 million views in five days, wherein she outs her boyfriend’s very specific quirk. According to Crawley, her boyfriend purposefully wears underpants with holes in them so he can surprise her by tearing them off suddenly and leaving only his waistband standing.

Comments are flooded with questions asking what a “beige flag” is, and joking that her boyfriend’s habit is probably closer to a beloved green flag trait.

Crawley told Insider she thinks a beige flag is something between a positive and negative trait. “To me a beige flag is something not quite green and not quite red,” she said. Read more