If your trees get covered in toilet paper, is it an insult or a compliment?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'm not from this country, and always thought it was an insult, a bit like egging - it's toilet paper, and it becomes sludge. How on earth could it be a compliment???

Try picking it out of cactus needles.
- Arizonan.
And weirdly could be either because you were popular or unpopular. Iwas trying to explain it to my kids and could not.

Yeah I think it's veered to popular.

Unpopular kids are just ignored in this day and age.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The sports teams where I live do it as a rite of passage for new varsity players, and the swim teams do it to cheer on kids.

Same here. The parents post pictures online like a badge of honor, just so proud. I wonder what sort of cognitive dissonance they employ to keep that cheer going as they remove dewy toilet paper from the far reaches of their trees and eaves.

My daughter’s HS swim team tps the coache’s house every year at the end of the season.

Where we live now it’s your friends doing it for whatever reason.