"The trend goes like this: A group of people, typically kids, gives their phone to someone else and asks them to record them doing a dance. They record the dance on the front-facing camera so the dancers can see themselves and at the end of the dance, they move towards the camera and flip it to reveal the person recording them."
"This might sound like a silly trend with unoffensive consequences, but many people online are labeling it as bullying because the person chosen to record is often someone the dancing kids are trying to make fun of, be it a less popular kid, a person struggling with homelessness, or an elderly person. The punchline of the video is almost always at the expense of the recorders."
""We shouldn't be building a whole trend around tearing someone down," @coquettesvanilla wrote. "Bullying isn't always loud or obvious, sometimes it hides behind 'it's just for fun.' But if someone gets hurt, then it wasn't fun to begin with. We can choose to be better. We can choose not to add to the negativity or make people feel ashamed of themselves. Social media doesn't have to be a place where people get laughed at, it can be a place where we actually respect each other.""
Participants record a dance on the front-facing camera so dancers can watch themselves, then flip the phone to reveal the person recording. The trend likely began in late October with a TikTok from @jaycrudddy that gained about 1.3 million views, according to Know Your Meme. Many viewers label the videos as bullying because recorders are often less popular students, people experiencing homelessness, or elderly individuals, and the reveal functions as a punchline at their expense. Instagram user @coquettesvanilla warned that bullying can hide behind 'it's just for fun' and urged choosing respect over tearing others down.
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