What Does This Mean?
A portmanteau of 'traditional wife' referring to women, and the online content genre/aesthetic they create, who promote and perform traditional homemaker and housewife gender roles as a deliberate lifestyle choice, typically presented with an aesthetically curated, nostalgic visual style on social media.
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REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE
"Her tradwife content racks up millions of views every time she posts a from-scratch sourdough video."
LORE & ORIGIN
The term traces to around 2016 per Merriam-Webster, with the associated content genre proliferating on social media from around 2018 onward and going broadly viral in the early 2020s as creators built large followings around homemaking, baking-from-scratch, and stay-at-home-wife content.
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