"All I Want For Christmas Is You" Sign Language Challenge

About

"All I Want for Christmas Is You" Sign Language Challenge is a social media game, in which participants signing the song "All I Want for Christmas Is You" in different languages. The game went viral on Twitter in December 2019.

Origin

On December 21st, 2019, Twitter user @NyleDiMarco tweeted a video of a man signing the song. They wrote, "ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS YOU: A CHALLENGE. Post a video of you signing that!" The tweet received more than 888,000 views, 16,000 likes and 2,600 retweets in less than two days (shown below).

ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS YOU:
A CHALLENGE.

Post a video of you signing that! pic.twitter.com/uJPCyDmcYz

— Nyle DiMarco (@NyleDiMarco) December 21, 2019

Spread

That day, @NyleDimarco shared videos of people performing the challenge. Their followup video received more than 1,600 likes and 110 retweets in less than two days (shown below).

ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS YOU pic.twitter.com/fEzhSgMk1u

— Nyle DiMarco (@NyleDiMarco) December 21, 2019

They also shared videos of people performing the challenge in different languages. The post that features someone signing in Italian sign language received more than 63,000 views, 1,600 likes and 150 retweets in less than two days (shown below).

On December 21st, Twitter^[1] published an Events page on the challenge.

In Italian sign language! pic.twitter.com/WCpqTW8J7u

— Nyle DiMarco (@NyleDiMarco) December 21, 2019

Various Examples

hii greetings from a Swedish sign language interpreter (I put in the Swedish version for you as well).👋🏻 pic.twitter.com/aXmncpYExI

— emelie (@askonstig) December 21, 2019

pic.twitter.com/51DxEvue7w

— Chrissy🌈🎬💜 (@EssentialSign_) December 21, 2019

Search Interest

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