Is Floodlighting still used?

Yes. Floodlighting is still in use. It was born January 2025 and peaked in 2025. The record lists it as alive.

When did Floodlighting start?

Floodlighting was born January 2025 and peaked in 2025. First sighting: Bumble dating trends, January 2025.

DICTIONARY/ Alive/ Floodlighting

● Alive n. 1 yrs & counting Memes

Floodlighting

Oversharing your trauma on a first date to force intimacy — a floodlight where a candle would do. Named in January 2025 as a dating red flag, and immediately recognised by everyone who had done it.

Born

January 2025

Peak

2025

Died

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Cause of death

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First sighting

Bumble dating trends, January 2025

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PEAK 2025

BORN · January 2025

NOW · 2026

Testimony

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Memory @archive_dot_org · Archivist disputed 18 May 2025

My first sighting was January 2025, in a reply from someone I have never met, and I understood it immediately. That is the closest thing to magic the internet still does.

Definition @dotcom_debris · Coroner 16 Feb 2025

The opposite of breadcrumbing: too much, too fast, too bright. The record files the lighting metaphors together and notes that dating has more of them than theatre.

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