What is the candy salad trauma dump trend? Lemme explain.
A timeline of the "candy salad trauma dump" trend
You’ve probably seen a bunch of videos of people trauma-dumping while making a candy salad. Believe it or not, the trend didn’t start out with trauma. It originally started with friends, classes and even sports teams collectively creating a candy salad by each bringing their favourite candy. @sanjacssoftball created this video back in February.
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When you do the Candy Salad trend the first person introduces themselves by saying: “Hi I am [Insert name] and I brought XYZ.” Around May, you see a shift. People started adding more information. Instead of saying: “Hi I’m Nora and I brought gummy bears.” Like in Mr. Riordon’s video. In May a video was posted by @Itz_Travis461 captioned: “candy salad but we overshare”. In this video, Ray introduces herself by saying: “Hi my name is Ray and I have a thing for clarinet and saxophone players.” This opened up the floodgates.
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Fast forward to June and it isn’t just classrooms, extracurricular clubs, etc. You see the first candy salad trauma dump posted by @jessareyouok. This is the first one I found under #candysalad. The video is titled “Candy salad trauma dump”. This video is done at home between Jess and her friend, which is a huge contrast compared to the big groups who did it beforehand. In this version, they’re not just oversharing but they’re full-on trauma dumping (some of the contents might be triggering please watch at your own discretion).
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This is how this trend evolved from one that was recorded with entire groups of people simply creating candy salad to friends trauma dumping in their cars. Now it has even made its way to Twitter after user @putcheyannee posted her thread.
There you have it folks! A mini timeline of the candy bowl trend. This is solely based on the videos under the hashtag #candysalad. Let me know if I missed anything.