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Is the Elf on the Shelf truly a Christmas Tradition?

AnonusAnonus
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Was 2005 really that long ago?

Also: The rest of the world has joined Centie in getting hype for Christmas in September, it seems

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  • Salix BabylonikaSalix Babylonika
    https://i.imgur.com/7Iil2JW.png
    no one is hyped for Christmas yet and to answer your question no, absolutely not
  • Obā-sanObā-san

    elf on the shelf is just the pale shadow of Mensch on a Bench, which is the greatest holiday tradition of all time
  • AnonusAnonus
    I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    Jane said:

    no one is hyped for Christmas yet

    image
    Jane said:

    and to answer your question no, absolutely not

    alright
  • Imipolex GImipolex G
    Touch the cow. Do it now.
    Anonus you are so gullible
  • AnonusAnonus
    I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    Imipolex G said:

    Anonus you are so gullible

    ?
  • Imipolex GImipolex G
    Touch the cow. Do it now.
    Putting "A Christmas Tradition" on something is just marketing. Only goddamn idiots would fall for it
  • CrystalCrystal
    Munch munch, chomp chomp...
    Imi, come now, please. Weird fixation or something sure, but I would also not be surprised if a non-insignificant chunk of it was AU just, like, not articulating much.
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    yeah the "goddamn idiots" part was a bit much

    but still though, no, i've never heard of this "tradition" before
  • Imipolex GImipolex G
    Touch the cow. Do it now.
    goddamn IDIOTS
  • Imipolex GImipolex G
    Touch the cow. Do it now.
    sorry this sort of thing pisses me off
  • AnonusAnonus
    I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    Imipolex G said:

    Putting "A Christmas Tradition" on something is just marketing. Only goddamn idiots would fall for it

    well I never thought of it as a tradition personally
  • AnonusAnonus
    I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    i just thought about the Elf on a Shelf meme and like

    has it caught on that much? the first I ever heard of it was Peter Paltridge complaining about some crappy TV special based on the book from 2011
  • CrystalCrystal
    edited 2017-09-23 02:07:06
    Munch munch, chomp chomp...
    It's probably just, like, one the current memes of interest or whatever, my dude. :p
  • Imipolex GImipolex G
    Touch the cow. Do it now.
    I wasn't calling you personally an idiot, for what it's worth

    it just annoys me that some people genuinely fall for this sort of marketing crap
  • Salix BabylonikaSalix Babylonika
    https://i.imgur.com/7Iil2JW.png
    it's only a meme because rhyming is fun
  • Princess AlicePrincess Alice
    You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    Anonus said:

    i just thought about the Elf on a Shelf meme and like


    has it caught on that much? the first I ever heard of it was Peter Paltridge complaining about some crappy TV special based on the book from 2011
    Same

    But yeah, it really feels like something some marketing executives really wish was a Christmas tradition, but you can't force that kind of thing, much to their chagrin
  • TatterhoodTatterhood
    like half my twitter timeline were posting "wtf is elf on the shelf" when the meme started catching on, so
  • TatterhoodTatterhood
    I'd heard of it but I honestly have no memory of where
  • Section42LSection42L
    We can do anything if we do it together.
    To be fair, I was kinda wondering what in specific brought back Elf in the Shelf as a meme right at this time for a few days now myself.
  • TatterhoodTatterhood
    someone made some random shitpost about it and other people found the rhyming format fun

    I don't think it's any kind of september christmas conspiracy
  • Princess AlicePrincess Alice
    You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    Tatterhood said:

    I don't think it's any kind of september christmas conspiracy

    Sadly.
  • Obā-sanObā-san

    im pretty sure the humor of the meme partially rests upon the inherent risibility of the elf on a shelf
  • TachyonTachyon
    imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    i thought the humour mainly came from taking a formula & doing improbable things with it

    of course Elf on the Shelf is Christmassy but seems irrelevant to the joke, certainly its Christmassiness is less important than its ridiculousness, in this instance
  • OdradekOdradek
    edited 2017-09-23 15:14:59
    My dreams exceed my real life
    The only thing stopping jokes about the Elf on the Shelf from being as easy-mode lazy basic-ass christmas criticizing garbage as jokes about the Christmas Shoes is that I have actually observed elves on shelves
  • TachyonTachyon
    imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    mm

    idk, i just don't agree

    i can't claim to read the minds of those making the jokes but to me it didn't seem like the jokes had anything at all to do with Christmas
  • TachyonTachyon
    imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    i mean unless you want to argue that 'elf on the shelf' is so inherently Christmassy that you can't reference it without putting everybody in a festive mood, but i don't think it is

    at the very least i never took the jokes as any kind of commentary on Christmas, or even Christmas commercialism
  • OdradekOdradek
    My dreams exceed my real life
    Oh this new meme is largely unrelated to earlier Elf on the Shelf mocking I saw, which was what I was talking about
  • TachyonTachyon
    imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    oic
  • KlinotaxisKlinotaxis
    kill living beings
    wait

    was elf on a shelf a thing before like last week
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    i'm pretty sure the humor is as tatterhood said, it's just an excuse to engage two-bit cleverness to make a rhyme
  • KlinotaxisKlinotaxis
    kill living beings
    wow ok


    like damn the whole meme seems retroactively less funny than it was now, this is like finding out the new phrase everyone is using came from a cigarette commercial
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    well i guess if you hate it then it's a good thing this came up now rather than ten years down the road
  • TachyonTachyon
    imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    i feel like the meme wouldn't really make sense if Elf on the Shelf wasn't some already-existing but utterly pointless and insignificant thing
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    Tachyon said:

    i feel like the meme wouldn't really make sense if Elf on the Shelf wasn't some already-existing but utterly pointless and insignificant thing

    you mean the fact that it was an available blank slate?

    i'm inclined to disagree but whatever
    Imipolex G said:

    I wasn't calling you personally an idiot, for what it's worth

    it just annoys me that some people genuinely fall for this sort of marketing crap

    ah
    yeah, this sort of crap is pretty annoying
    though i mean i guess one could say it is a fictitious tradition but whatever
  • TachyonTachyon
    imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    not so much a blank slate, more piece of pop cultural jetsam that was fun to snowclone
  • CrystalCrystal
    Munch munch, chomp chomp...
    Yeh.
  • AlduinAlduin
    The...what?
  • OdradekOdradek
    My dreams exceed my real life
    It's this little panopticon toy you put on your shelf and it reports back to Santa
  • CalicaCalica
    Sup bitches, witches, Haters, and trolls.
    santa claus is coming to town but with santa claus replaced with the nsa
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    so the nsa is against julian assange and julian assange is with russia and russia wants to global warming so they can melt their permafrost so since nsa is santa claus nsa punishes julian assange by giving him coal and he brings it to putin who burns it releasing greenhouse gases

    IT ALL MAKES SENSE NOW
  • AlduinAlduin
    The Americans have strange ways.
  • MetaFourMetaFour
    For once, or maybe twice, I was in my prime.
    Santa sees everything! There is no escaping the Claus organization.
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