What's The 'Christmas Just A Week Away' Meme? The Copypasta And Original Video Of A Girl Ready For The Holiday Season Explained | Know Your Meme

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What's The 'Christmas Just A Week Away' Meme? The Copypasta And Original Video Of A Girl Ready For The Holiday Season Explained

The girl from the "Christmas Just A Week Away" meme.
The girl from the "Christmas Just A Week Away" meme.

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Published 11 months ago

Published 11 months ago

A girl's TikTok duet in which she excitedly said, "Christmas, Just a week away!" has resurfaced every holiday season because it's both wholesome, funny and absurd.

The meme and its copypasta gets passed around every December, causing many to wonder where the original video came from. The meme has trended for a few years in a row now. Her famous words must be stuck in the heads of Jollyposters everywhere, filling them with Christmas spirit every time.

So, where was the original video posted? What's the copypasta? Why was she so excited about "this information?" Let's explain.

What's The Original 'Christmas Just A Week Away' Video?

The original video was posted to TikTok in September 2020, by a user named @kearamr. The funny thing is that @kearamr didn't post the video anywhere near Christmas. Instead, she was humorously trying to manifest Christmas early.

Unfortunately, the audio of the original video has been removed on TikTok for currently unknown reasons. Regardless, multiple reposts of the duet exist on YouTube and other video platforms, like the one shown below.

What's The 'Christmas Just A Week Away' Copypasta?

First of all, a copypasta is any block of text that gets copied and pasted across social media. The source of many copypastas are viral videos. So, it's no surprise that the "Christmas Just A Week Away!" video has a copypasta of its own. Here it is for your spam usage:

Can you believe it guys? Christmas, just a week away! Christmas is in a week! Woo-hoo! I am so happy about this information. Christmas, just a week away. Oh, wow! Can you believe it? Christmas, just in a week! It got here so fast! Christmas, just a-

What's The 'Christmas Just A Week Away' Meme Trend?

The first slew of memes that used the video was actually posted to the obscure website iFunny in late 2021. So-called iFunniers treated the duet like an exploitable template, recaptioning and replacing "Christmas" with absurd sound effects and subjects, like the Metal Pipe Falling sound, for instance.

The surreal nature of the meme trend was widely related to the video genre of 21st Century Humor and the later slang term "brain rot."

The humor behind the trend mostly centers on the girl's strange cadence and diction. Like, why does she use the word "information?" Capitalizing on this, meme creators made the video even stranger by replacing what she was excited about.


For the full history of "Christmas Just A Week Away," be sure to check out Know Your Meme's entry for even more information.

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