11 Unusual Breakup News & Innovations

The latest season of The Bachelor delivered one of the worst moments a woman could go though, a breakup on national TV in the show's "After the Final Rose special" which aired moments after Melissa Rycroft was revealed as the woman The Bachelor Jason Mesnick chooses and proposes to, only to be dumped in favor of the other woman, Molly Malaney.

But The Bachelor's change of heart and public humilation is not the strangest thing we've come across when it comes to breakups. Diving into Trend Hunter's library, I was able to find TV commercial breakups, texting & Facebook breakups, companies offering those who were dumped a paid day off and my personal favorite, the Breakup shagging by Coke zero.

SCORE
6.5 out of 10
GENDER
10% Men90% Women
MARKETTop markets: North America, Europe, Asia
GENERATION
  • Gen Z
  • Gen Alpha
  • Millennial (primary audience)
  • Gen X (primary audience)
POPULARITY
Popularity 98%
Activity 88%
Freshness 8%

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