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==History==
Smash or pass? originated as a [[party game]], but has become popular on the Internet;<ref name="TikTok Is Playing 'Smash or Pass' With Disney Filters">{{cite news |last1=Panecasio |first1=Steph |title=TikTok Is Playing 'Smash or Pass' With Disney Filters |url=https://www.cnet.com/culture/internet/tiktok-is-playing-smash-or-pass-with-disney-filters/ |date=1 March 2022 |access-date=8 July 2022 |work=CNET |language=en}}</ref> it has been described as an
▲Smash or pass? originated as a [[party game]], but has become popular on the Internet;<ref name="TikTok Is Playing 'Smash or Pass' With Disney Filters">{{cite news |last1=Panecasio |first1=Steph |title=TikTok Is Playing 'Smash or Pass' With Disney Filters |url=https://www.cnet.com/culture/internet/tiktok-is-playing-smash-or-pass-with-disney-filters/ |date=1 March 2022 |access-date=8 July 2022 |work=CNET |language=en}}</ref> it has been described as an Internet [[fad]].<ref name="2 CBA students leave school after making video rating girls">{{cite news |title=2 CBA students leave school after making video rating girls |url=https://www.syracuse.com/schools/2019/09/2-cba-students-forced-to-leave-school-after-making-smash-or-pass-video-rating-girls.html |access-date=8 July 2022 |work=syracuse |date=19 September 2019 |language=en}}</ref> ''[[Vice News]]'' reported that the game "has mysterious origins" and speculated that it may have originated from other risqué games played by adolescents, including [[spin the bottle]], [[truth or dare?]], and [[fuck, marry, kill]].<ref name="vice Smash or Pass and the Eternal Appeal of Online Thirst">{{cite news |title='Smash or Pass' and the Eternal Appeal of Online Thirst |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/g5q9yx/smash-or-pass-and-the-eternal-appeal-of-online-thirst |date=4 April 2022 |access-date=8 July 2022 |work=Vice |language=en}}</ref> The game appeared on Internet forums in mid-2010, the same year in which the phrase ''smash or pass'' was first defined on ''[[Urban Dictionary]]''.<ref name="dictionary.com smash or pass">{{cite web |title=Smash or Pass Meaning & Origin |url=https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/smash-or-pass/ |website=Dictionary.com |date=22 June 2018 |access-date=8 July 2022}}</ref>
In one version of the game, reported in 2011, teenagers uploaded photographs of themselves to Facebook so that others could evaluate their looks.<ref name="wbtv New Facebook sex game"/><ref>{{cite news |title=Smash or Pass: A WAFF 48 News Special Report |url=https://www.waff.com/story/15401306/smash-or-pass/ |date=6 September 2011 |access-date=8 July 2022 |work=WAFF |language=en}}</ref> In some cases, photographs were uploaded for the game without their subjects' knowledge or consent.<ref name="Teenage sex game on Facebook, 'Smash or Pass' explodes, draws younger children."/> Digital security specialists Theresa Payton and Tshaka Armstrong said the game was risky and urged parents to monitor their children's activity online. Payton called the game "sexploitation" and said that the photographs might be viewed by sexual predators.<ref name="wbtv New Facebook sex game">{{cite news |last1=Mack |first1=Brigida |title=New Facebook sex game "Smash or Pass" gaining popularity |url=https://www.wbtv.com/story/15219283/new-facebook-game-smash-or-pass-gaining-popularity/ |date=5 August 2011 |access-date=8 July 2022 |work=WBTV |language=en}}</ref> Missy Wall of Teen Contact expressed concern about how the game could affect teenagers' mental health: "When a teenager gets 'passed' that could be very detrimental to emotional health. The teen may try to get noticed and may become more risque. It is a form of cyber-bullying."<ref name="Teenage sex game on Facebook, 'Smash or Pass' explodes, draws younger children.">{{cite news |last1=Tongish |first1=Dawn |title=Teenage sex game on Facebook, 'Smash or Pass' explodes, draws younger children. |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A268138552/ITOF?u=wikipedia&sid=ebsco&xid=22e1c178 |access-date=8 July 2022 |work=galeapps.gale.com |publisher=KDAF – TV |date=27 September 2011}}</ref>
In 2014, ''[[Task & Purpose]]'' reported that "smash or pass" photographs of women in the [[United States military]] were being uploaded to Facebook without their consent, as part of a pattern of sexual harassment.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://taskandpurpose.com/sexist-facebook-movement-marine-corps-cant-stop/ |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140831234439/http://taskandpurpose.com/sexist-facebook-movement-marine-corps-cant-stop/ |archivedate=2014-08-31|title=The Sexist Facebook Movement The Marine Corps Can't Stop |date=20 August 2014 |work=[[Task & Purpose]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Robinson |first1=Patricia Ryan |title=The Silent War: Free Speech and the Right to Information in the Context of Military Sexual Assault |journal=First Amendment Law Review |date=2014–2015 |volume=13 |pages=498 |url=https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/falr13&div=19&id=&page=}}</ref> The photographs sometimes attracted jokes about raping the women depicted.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Svyantek |first1=Daniel J. |title=Organizations Behaving Badly: Destructive Behavior and Corrective Responses |date=1 January 2021 |publisher=IAP |isbn=978-1-64802-356-9 |page=32 |url=https://
Based on [[Google Trends]] data, interest in the game was low until around 2016, when searches spiked, coinciding with a rise in the game's popularity on YouTube.<ref name="vice Smash or Pass and the Eternal Appeal of Online Thirst"/> [[
In two cases, the game was linked to specific incidents of [[Cyberbullying|online sexual harassment]] in American high schools. A 2017 qualitative study by information scientists Denise E Agosto and June Abbas reported a "Smash or Pass" Twitter account on which students at one school evaluated other students' appearances.<ref name="Agosto and Abbas Don't be dumb">{{cite journal |last1=Agosto |first1=Denise E |last2=Abbas |first2=June |title='Don't be dumb—that's the rule I try to live by': A closer look at older teens' online privacy and safety attitudes |journal=New Media & Society |date=March 2017 |volume=19 |issue=3 |pages=347–365 |doi=10.1177/1461444815606121|s2cid=30615820 }}</ref> The Twitter account was widely viewed among the student body and included "increasingly cruel" comments.<ref name="Agosto and Abbas Don't be dumb"/> When school administrators discovered the account, they had it shut down, expelled the student responsible, and prohibited students from talking about the incident.<ref name="Agosto and Abbas Don't be dumb"/> In 2019, two male high school students in [[DeWitt, New York]], changed schools after posting a video in which they rated the sexual desirability of girls in the local area; one of their parents said that the two boys were asked to leave their school or face expulsion.<ref name="2 CBA students leave school after making video rating girls"/>
Starting in January 2022, the game became part of a trend on TikTok in which users decide whether to "smash or pass" fictional characters from TikTok character generators.<ref name="TikTok Is Playing 'Smash or Pass' With Disney Filters"/><ref name="vice Smash or Pass and the Eternal Appeal of Online Thirst"/> Popular characters have included [[Marvel Universe]] characters, Disney characters, and cartoon parents.<ref name="TikTok Is Playing 'Smash or Pass' With Disney Filters"/><ref name="vice Smash or Pass and the Eternal Appeal of Online Thirst"/>
The game's popularity among German speakers has led to the verb ''smash'' entering the German lexicon as ''smashen''; in 2022 it was chosen as [[Youth word of the year (Germany)|youth word of the year]] in a [[Langenscheidt]] poll.<ref>{{cite news |title=Jugendwort des Jahres 2022: "Smash" vor "Macher und "bodenlos" |url=https://www.ndr.de/kultur/buch/Jugendwort-des-Jahres-2022-Smash-vor-Macher-und-bodenlos,jugendwort224.html |access-date=9 January 2023 |work=www.ndr.de |language=de}}</ref>
==Reception==
''[[Dictionary.com]]'' called the game "the sleepover game of the internet age".<ref name="dictionary.com smash or pass"/> Steph Panecasio of ''[[CNET]]'' said of the TikTok trend: "There's no untoward behavior, this is all in the name of good fun."<ref name="TikTok Is Playing 'Smash or Pass' With Disney Filters"/>
American security scholar Joan Johnson-Freese cited the game, along with [[Hot or Not]], as examples of the [[objectification of women]] prevalent in Western society.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Johnson-Freese |first1=Joan |title=Women, peace and security: an introduction |date=2019 |
Arielle Richards of ''[[Vice News]]'' said that "the real beauty of smash or pass is in its simplicity", but acknowledged that it "can be, and has been, misused in harmful ways".<ref name="vice Smash or Pass and the Eternal Appeal of Online Thirst"/> Richards compared the game to [[FaceMash]], a predecessor to Facebook, in which users rated the appearance of female Harvard students.<ref name="vice Smash or Pass and the Eternal Appeal of Online Thirst"/>
==See also==
* [[Conversation games]]▼
* [[Fuck, marry, kill]]
▲* [[Conversation games]]
==References==
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