About Tita Files

Every Filipino has one. The tita who shows up with three tupperwares of food nobody asked for. The tito who takes over the videoke mic and refuses to give it back. The one who asks “may boyfriend ka na?” before “kumusta ka na?”

Tita Files is a growing archive of these characters, the aunties, uncles, and honorary titas/titos who shaped how we grew up, gave us unsolicited advice with every meal, and somehow became the main character of every family reunion.

This isn’t just about literal aunts and uncles. In the Philippines, “tita” and “tito” go way beyond blood. It’s your mom’s officemate, the neighbor who’s known you since you were in diapers, your parents’ barkada. If she’s giving you life advice at a party you didn’t invite her opinion to, she’s a tita. It’s less a title, more a whole personality.

Here, we’re cataloging it all: the archetypes, the sayings, the group chat forwards, the “matagal na kitang tinitignan, lumaki ka na” energy. Some of it’s loving. Some of it’s a little too real. All of it is deeply, unmistakably ours.

What’s in the archive:

• The Files

  a growing catalog of tita and tito archetypes, each with their known behaviors, natural habitat, and signature phrase

• The Quiz

  find out which file you actually are

• Tita Says

  bring the chaos to your own group chat with the party game

• Reunion Bingo

  printable human bingo for the next reunion, one square per tita you already know is coming

• Recommendations

  the things every self-respecting tita has in her bag

Got a tita or tito who deserves their own file? Submit one. This archive is built by all of us, one auntie at a time.