Sliding Social Interaction Pins
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About
Sliding Social Interaction Pins refers to sliding pins that display a manually set parameter on a scale for various mental and physical conditions, such as happiness, anxiety, pain level and one's "social battery." Sold by Bibipins and other online stores, the pins became a subject of memes in early May 2023.
Origin
On June 24th, 2021, online store Bibipins launched[1] a pre-order for its sliding pins, a series of pins with manually adjustable flower sliders showing a scale for various conditions, such as pain level, exhaustion and overstimulation. The store began selling the pins in early October 2021[2] (available options as of December 2021 shown below).
On April 28th, 2023, online store Eumori uploaded a promotional video for a "My Social Battery" sliding pin to TikTok,[3] where it gained over 20 million views and 1.6 million likes in one week (shown below).
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/7227106767279312129
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On May 2nd, 2023, Twitter[4] user @mensa_genius uploaded the video, commenting, "Imagine making small talk with your barista and they slide their social battery badge down a level." The tweet (shown below) gained over 1.5 million views, 12,200 retweets and 144,000 likes in three days.
Imagine making small talk with your barista and they slide their social battery badge down a level pic.twitter.com/0w4L5uyRwa
— Hal (@mensa_genius) May 2, 2023
In the following days, multiple users quote tweeted the post, captioning it with jokes about interacting with the pin and about its potential buyers. For example, on May 2nd, Twitter[5] user @s4m31p4n posted a joke that received over 340 retweets and 5,200 likes in three days (shown below, left). Later that day, YouTuber Justin Whang tweeted[6] a joke that received over 420 retweets and 7,300 likes in the same period (shown below, right).
On May 4th, 2023, Twitter[7] user @InfiniteAzure posted a photograph of 14 sliding pins for various conditions, commenting, "wearing all of these in public like medals of honour and sliding them all up as fast as I can when a waiter at a restaurant asks what I want to eat" (shown below). The tweet went viral prior to being deleted the following day, prompting more jokes and memes about the pins.
Various Examples
Search Interest
External References
[1] Twitter – @bibicosplays
[2] Twitter – @bibicosplays
[4] Twitter – @mensa_genius
[6] Twitter – @JustinWhang
[7] Twitter – @lnfiniteAzure
Top Comments
Nigel the treasure hunter
May 05, 2023 at 02:20PM EDT
Mace121
May 05, 2023 at 10:34AM EDT