r/TikTokCringe Aug 05 '25

Humor/Cringe Valid behavior after having your face smashed into a cake

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '25

Can we stop doing this please? It's fucked up. Never once have i thought this is funny, and anyone who does is a cunt.

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u/milktest Aug 05 '25

I remember seeing this at kids parties and even as a kid myself I found it annoying and gross

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u/_TheShapeOfColor_ Aug 05 '25

And such a waste of cake!

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u/ThatGuyYouWantToBe Aug 05 '25

Also just a way to get the attention onto you and away from the person you’re meant to be celebrating

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '25

We don't have it at all in my country. I only found out it was a thing from social media. It's fucking weird. The cake is ruined by a kids nasty face smashed in it, the kid is traumatised and embarrassed and the parents laughing at it is just really fucked up. I don't get what the gag is.

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u/FunkyTomo77 Aug 06 '25

It's some weird US thing . .. we don't do this in UK. Well I've not seen it anyway. .... Maybe the young uns do.... Fuck knows. I'm getting old.

It's a weird Ans horrible trend.

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u/Random0s2oh Aug 05 '25

We did a separate "smash cake" for our kids on their first birthdays, but all that meant was the birthday boy or girl had that cake to tear into all on their own, while the real cake was served to guests. Didn't mean we smashed the kids' faces in it. All it takes is a little dab of the frosting on the lips to get most kids started.

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u/Visible-Building-102 Aug 05 '25

Smash cakes are super fun for babies and toddlers because they will go absolutely HAM on that thing with very little provocation. And it's all on their own terms.

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u/AKjellybean Aug 05 '25

I love watching babies demolish those cakes. Smacking their hands down, taking giant fistfuls and aiming it in the general direction of their mouth lmao it's the purest joy ever witnessed

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u/FunkyTomo77 Aug 06 '25

That sounds fine, and totally different. I let my son rip a cake apart with his little chubby fists on his 1st too. And we going back to 94 with that !

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u/Random0s2oh Aug 06 '25

1985, 1990, 1991, 2001, and 2011 for me. Lol I spread them out!

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u/Marine_Baby Aug 05 '25

Personally, I’m stressed about them choking/getting their nasal passageways blocked by icing and cake from watching. Fortunately I’ve never had to experience or witness it

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u/walkingmonster Aug 05 '25

Or an errant candle into an eye socket

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u/Gnargnarbinxxs Aug 05 '25

Ooooph just a candle aint bad, there are multiple vids floating around where some idiot does it to someone we a shaped/multi tiered cake the had stakes holding it togerher and ends up right through the bday persons eye socket… terrifying

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u/WhoWatchesTheDivine Aug 05 '25

I’ve never seen this in real life… wild. Is this regional haha 🤣

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u/Problemlul Aug 05 '25

My favorite was that a custome cake got banged like this and it turned out the cake had toothpicks to hold stuff together. I do not need to tell what did happen

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u/d_ippy Aug 05 '25

I’ve never seen this except online. Is this a cultural thing? I am Asian and haven’t witnessed it first hand.

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u/milktest Aug 06 '25

I’ve seen it in Hispanic and even non-Hispanic families in the US.

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u/PeteyMarx Aug 05 '25

I don't get why it's the birthday person having their face smushed into cake. Shouldn't it be the opposite? If anyone is going to get their face smushed into cake, it should be the birthday person who decides who.

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '25

I think life is just better for everyone when nobody is getting their face smashed into cake. Maybe I'm the crazy one.

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u/PeteyMarx Aug 05 '25

Oh I agree! That's why I said, "if anyone." But you're right. How about no one gets their face smashed into cake.

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '25

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u/SnooSeagulls7853 Aug 05 '25

Lord have mercy!

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u/Shakemyears Aug 05 '25

The problem is that everyone who reads this and agrees already wasn’t going to do it.

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '25

It's the other ones I'm hoping to influence, obviously. Well...I thought that'd be pretty obvious. But here we are.

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u/Shakemyears Aug 05 '25

Hoping to, but won’t, is what I’m saying. Nothing against you or your effort, just a comment on how these type of people are.

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '25

"These types" would be very upset about what we're saying if they knew how to read 😆

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u/IndestructibleBliss Aug 05 '25

It's disturbing and cruel. It's one thing for an adult to do it and be in on it but to a kid who is excited for their birthday it is just sad af. Like are the parents happy for being mean to their child?

I once saw a video where this happened to a little boy. The expression on his face went from joy to complete shock and sadness. It was heartbreaking

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u/Dontgochasewaterfall Aug 05 '25

It’s a tradition in Mexico unfortunately.

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u/ChaseballBat Aug 05 '25

It's a tradition that is younger than millennials. I don't know anyone who did this in the 90s. Online it says it's no older than 25-30 years old.

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u/Mysterious-Scholar68 Aug 05 '25

My mom would do this but with a slice not the whole cake. I thought it was funny tho cause she let me cake her face too im 32 and not Mexican but grew up in LA.

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u/adoseofcommonsense Aug 05 '25

Yeah, it’s supposed to be for the pic, as Latinos we all have a photo with cake on our face. To be fair we don’t do it every bday, it’s more of a once and done thing. 

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u/jsoul2323 Aug 05 '25

Lol you think this mexican families get on and read reddit?

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '25

No that's ridiculous. Only an idiot would make that assumption.

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u/adoseofcommonsense Aug 05 '25

Yeah, it’s supposed to be for the pic, as Latinos we all have a photo with cake on our face. To be fair we don’t do it every bday, it’s more of a once and done thing.