About

Wanna Smash? refers to a trend on TikTok set to JELEEL's song "DIVE IN!" in which a fictional character asks via caption, "wanna smash?" then continues to ask if the third party would like to smash given several different scenarios, always followed by the repeated lyrical answer, "Yeah!" The trend began in April 2022 and evolved in October under new original sounds, particularly one in which a cartoon character asks, "wanna smash?" followed by someone refusing, then the character turning into an IRL person, changing the respondent's mind.

Origin

On April 5th, 2022, TikToker^[1] @inenssenu, known as "rai," posted a video (shown below) set to "DIVE IN!" showing an image of Toji from Chainsaw Man captioned, "rai so you wanna fck?" The video then cuts to a profile screenshot of Rai, named @fwraii at the time, captioned, "yeah" as JELEEL sings the same word. The video continues to alternate between the two images, each image of Toji captioned with a new question, such as, "even if I was a girl?" and "even if I had a disease?" with @fwraii always saying "yeah." The video gained over 1.2 million views in six months.

Spread

The trend spread under the same original sound over the following months. On April 21st, 2022, TikToker^[2] @8bitbunnii posted a video doing the trend with images of Venom, garnering over 2.5 million views in six months (shown below, left). On May 31st, TikToker^[3] @emmaleess posted a video doing the trend with Steve Harrington from Stranger Things, garnering over 6.4 million views in four months (shown below, right).

In October 2022, people began posting versions of the trend where a fictional cartoon character asks the question, followed by someone refusing and the character turning into a real person. For example, on October 13th, TikToker^[4] @oliveralvarezmar12 posted a video where the Green M&M turns into a real woman, garnering over 29,000 views in just over a week (shown below, left). On October 18th, TikToker^[5] @scuttlingscallywag posted a video using Rebecca from Edgerunners, garnering over 34,000 views in a week (shown below, right).

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