Sweet emotion: The best of Twitter’s candy-heart rejects

Chances are you won’t see these notes printed on any Sweethearts this Valentine’s Day.

Fernando Alfonso III

Updated on June 2 2021 9:25 pm CDT

Over the last 146 years, Sweethearts’ candies have been a cornerstone of Valentine’s Day. The heart-shaped sweets offer little notes of affection that are readily shared by children and adults alike.

Today these sweets have taken on a new life on Twitter, where more than 5,000 people have come up with racier messages using the hashtag #candyheartrejects.

Here are some of the tweets that grabbed the Daily Dot’s attention.

Photo from @paintsnature

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Fernando Alfonso III

Fernando Alfonso III served as an early Reddit and 4chan reporter and the Daily Dot’s first art director until 2016. He’s gone on to report at Lexington’s Herald-Leader and at the Houston Chronicle.