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00:00This trend takes trauma dumping to a whole new level. Let me tell you about it.
00:04If you haven't been seeing these videos everywhere, I'll fill you in.
00:07The trend started this summer where people shared videos of themselves telling traumatic stories about things that happen to them in their lives and then
00:15dumping candy into a bowl and doing that back and forth with a friend or two.
00:19Like this one where this woman shares a story about how her parents left her in a hot car for two hours when she was
00:25a kid and then dumps a bag of Nerds Gummy Clusters into the bowl.
00:30A lot of them are really sad and tragic stories and a lot of them are also not necessarily safe for work.
00:36But others took it less seriously, like this video where they're just using Grey's Anatomy plot points and sharing it as their own trauma,
00:42which is pretty funny.
00:44But what does any of this have to do with candy salads?
00:47First of all, not a whole lot, but candy salads on their own, without the trauma, became a viral trend in
00:54April and May of this year, so maybe it started there.
00:56And as Mary Poppins says, a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down.
01:01It's also a way for people to get their stories across while balancing it with something funny and goofy like making a candy salad.
01:08It's also a play on the phrase trauma dumping. So while they're spilling their guts metaphorically,
01:14they're literally pouring candy into a bowl. Plus, TikTok weirdly loves candy content.
01:19These like ASMR gummy videos have been all over my for you page at least for a long time.
01:25Maybe there's something satisfying about it like slime? And people need an emotional outlet, right?
01:29So at least they get to eat a Nerds Gummy Cluster afterward.