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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
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"/> [[PewDiePie]] made a Smash or Pass video in 2017 which got 13 million views.<ref name="vice Smash or Pass and the Eternal Appeal of Online Thirst"/>
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''[[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"/>
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[[Category:Party games]]
[[Category:TikTok]]
[[Category:Sexual attraction]]
[[Category:Casual sex]]
[[Category:Sexual slang]]
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