If you text like this, you’re officially a hun

What do Gemma Collins, Jane McDonald, Alison Hammond, Cheryl Cole and Fiona from The Traitors all have in common?

Well, that’s easy. They’re all ambassadors of hun culture — or as the country’s most devoted followers call it, the Church of Hun.

With an endless supply of St Moritz fake tan, a Nectar Clubcard full of points, and a healthy obsession with gay men, certified huns have become one of UK’s most valuable assets.

But how would you spot one in the wild? How would you know who is ‘live, laugh, loving’ and mispronouncing the word ‘jalapeño’?

Turns out, all you’d have to do it look at the way they text.

One scroll through your phone and you’ll be able to tell if you’re in the presence of an icon — here’s why.

Sealed with a misspelt kiss

No self respecting hun would finish typing out a text without adding a kiss.

George Oglethorpe, cohost of Not Being Funny, Babe, the @loveofhuns podcast, tells Metro that a hun ‘always has time for a big fat “x” at the end of every sentence.’

‘The ‘x’ is the British staple, we’d be nothing without her,’ he says. ‘How am I supposed to be both funny and a little charming without an on the nose kiss at the end of my sentence?’

Content creator, actor and comedian Fizz Sinclair, is an encyclopedia in hun knowledge. She agrees it would be ‘sacrilegious’ for a hun to end a sentence without the customary ‘x’.

She shares: ‘A hun always knows the difference between when a ‘x’ is pass agg or not. Adding an ‘x’ to the end of a proper outrageous text = 100000% funnier.’

But the habit you need to spot to know you’ve truly found a certified hun? The typo ‘xc’ — that’s when you go to type a ‘x’, but your finger catches the letter ‘c’ next to it on the keyboard too.

George continues: ‘Look we’ve all got the same 24 hours in the day, but a hun is on the go, she’s a busy girlie, she hasn’t got time for correct punctuation or spelling.

‘With long acrylic nails and a million handbags to consider, does it really matter if you text ‘xc’ instead of ‘x’?’

His co-host, Ellena agrees, adding: ‘A hun doesn’t care if her text makes sense when she sends it, she just expects you to understand it.’

Let’s be real, huns have got more important things to do, like watching the 2008 Gavin and Stacey Christmas special.

Huns love a pet name

There’s some other ways to spot huns on WhatsApp.

Firstly, huns don’t really understand the concept of calling someone by the name bestowed to them at birth.

Instead, as Fizz shares, huns favour the following: ‘chick, babe, babes, dallyn, pet, lovely.’

If you’ve ever penned a text to your manager and started with the phrase ‘hey babes’ or signed off a message to your situationship that’s read ‘we’re over, pet’, you understand.

And, they’d never use any pass-agg punctuation.

‘Don’t ever use a full stop, just feels a bit like you’re tryna kick off,’ says Fizz.

‘Take nothin seriously, and become absolutely fluent in sarcasm and running with the joke x’

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