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Twitter Has Takes On New York's Sad Rockefeller Center Tree
Every year, a giant Christmas tree goes up in New York City's Rockefeller Center, making the area very beautiful and miserable to walk through, as it's swamped by tourists. Its lighting is an annual TV event, making it something of an American institution that rings in the season alongside screenings of Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer and Santa Clause Is Comin' To Town. This year, the tree looks like this:
I know it’s 2020 and everything is terrible but the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree should be a lot fuller…I blame this disaster on @NYCMayor Via IG:rtanphoto pic.twitter.com/lWNLoYkmNs
— Icculus The Brave (@FirenzeMike) November 17, 2020
This is hardly the resplendent, gorgeous tree New Yorkers and the world have grown accustomed to. It looks bare and dry, like a Christmas tree that's been standing in one's living room well into January. The dinky-looking tree began going viral when all-star internet consumer Rex Chapman tweeted it out to his million followers.
Could the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree look any worse? 2020on brand… pic.twitter.com/6K2n4bX9u7
— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) November 17, 2020
From there, Twitter users had plenty of jokes about the poor tree.
Ladies and Gentlemen – the Christmas tree has arrived at Rockefeller Center in NYC. Left pic is how it looked when it was cut down. Right pic is how it arrived. Welcome to 2020. pic.twitter.com/bKSq87BVP1
— 💙 Depoetic (@Depoetic) November 17, 2020
This tree has covid https://t.co/X1vLMQtYT6
— Roberto Morel __ (@RobertoPlatano) November 18, 2020
This tree says “Merry Christmas…I guess 🤷🏾♀️” https://t.co/EYNeqS3urH
— Liz Jenkins (@ej11lizzie) November 18, 2020
I heard Charlie Brown just started a GoFundMe for this shitshow. https://t.co/u1ZH4bd7zn
— Jenny Johnson (@JennyJohnsonHi5) November 18, 2020
This sums up 2020 perfectly. Couldn’t have picked a better tree for this year https://t.co/txBwzNm5ee
— Seth Self (@sethaself) November 18, 2020
While the Christmas tree got roasted on an open fire--er, Twitter--others pointed out that this is actually pretty normal for the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree. The final product seen on television is usually supplemented with additional branches and decorations, so it always looks fine, no matter the state its in when it's first erected.
It always looks awful when they put it up. Then they drill holes in it & install donor branches so it looks normal. It’s like how Charlie Brown’s tree had 4 needles but the Snoopy puts decorations on it & it’s suddenly shaped like a triangle. https://t.co/Js9k7A9sb1
— 🗽866-OUR-VOTE (@Caissie) November 18, 2020
It always looks awful when they put it up. Then they drill holes in it & install donor branches so it looks normal. It’s like how Charlie Brown’s tree had 4 needles but the Snoopy puts decorations on it & it’s suddenly shaped like a triangle. https://t.co/Js9k7A9sb1
— 🗽866-OUR-VOTE (@Caissie) November 18, 2020
Still, the sad-looking tree seems like a perfect metaphor for a fraught 2020 that will end with many families unable to see their loved ones due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Merry Christmas, everyone!
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