Ahegao is, in my limited knowledge, originally a Japanese term that has to do with the art of the expression of a girl in a Hentai. It’s straight-up the O-face. But it gets snagged by Western culture and pretty much made into a meme and posted all over the Internet as its own joke almost. Now there’s sweatshirts that have the classic Ahegao face on it. It’s taken on a bunch of different meanings. That’s kind of why I put it in the song. I thought it was a really interesting path that it took as a meme. But it is obscene. There is an obscene origin to it. So I get why they [tiktok] might’ve banned that one.

– Penelope Scott in an interview with Billboard