About

Bath Bombs refers to an image fad of people putting a random assortment of items in their bathtubs as a parody of Bath bomb images circulating sites like tumblr.

Origin

Through december, multiple users received Bath bomb gifts, this caused the number of people uploading images showcasing the items in their bath tubs to increase on social sites.

As a reaction to this, on December 30 of 2014, tumblr user idkitstommy^[1] made a post of him putting a shopped image of a bomb on his tub, followed by an image of a destroyed bathroom with the caption “i love my new bath bomb from lush”, on the next days the post gathered 104,721 notes.

On december 31 the official tumblr twitter linked to the post with the caption “Is this the last meme of 2014? #BathBomb”

Is this the last meme of 2014? #bathbombhttp://t.co/aCYqWPIT6B

— Tumblr (@tumblr) December 31, 2014

Spread

On the days following the post, multiple images following the same vein of the first one started appearing on sites like tumblr and twitter with the hashtags #BathBombs.

On Dec. 31, 2014 the internet news site Buzzfeed^[2] posted an article recompiling the most famous tweets involving the meme, as well as the site TheDailyEdge.^[3]

Controversy

The fad caused a negative reaction from feminists on sites like tumblr for its apparent attacks towards the hobby and people who post the pictures.

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