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August 29, 2026

Comparing Social Media Mentions of the Viral “Squishy Dumpling” to Five Below’s (FIVE) Stock Price

We created a chart using our MarketPsych MCP Radar connector with Claude to compare the stock price of Five Below (FIVE) with mentions of the viral “squishy dumpling” over the past 12 months.

Our clients detect these trends in our Trending Themes dataset and in our social media and transcript monitoring tool Radar Database, which has a collection of all business news media sentences in 28 languages.

This is similar to our work on Labubu driving Pop Mart International stock: The Labubu craze: Using NLP to understand the behaviour behind market surges and bubbles

Upticks in social media mentions of “squishy dumpling” preceded sharp rises in the stock price of FIVE.

Bar graph of “squishy dumpling” mentions in orange with line graph of Five Below stock price in blue.
Five Below (FIVE) share price compared to "squishy dumpling" mentions on social media