Christmasposting / Jollyposting

About

Christmasposting, also known as Jollyposting, Christmas Posting, Christmas Versions of Every GIF or Christmas Versions of Every Meme, refers to a series of crudely made Christmas-themed re-edits of notable memes and GIFs in which exploitable Christmas symbols are added like snow, Santa Claus, Christmas trees, presents and the colors red and green, among others. The base memes were also recaptioned with Christmas buzzwords and phrases like "Ho ho ho" and "jolly," among others. The trend started in November 2023, due to a viral Twitter / X thread. It later spread to TikTok where many added Christmas carols and songs to notable viral videos. The -posting trend was similar to Alienposting and Pirateposting which similarly added low-brow visual symbols to crudely alter the theme of a pre-existing meme.

Origin

On November 19th, 2023, X^[1] user @supersylvie_ posted a Regular Show GIF that was Christmas-themed that read, "Your mom's a Grinch" in Impact (shown below). @supersylvie_ captioned the GIF, "can we just make these stupid christmas versions of every gif now" and over two days, the tweet gained roughly 49,000 likes.

Spread

@supersylvie_'s tweet inspired a slew of replies and quote retweets in which users created and shared their own Christmas GIFs and memes. For instance, on November 20th, 2023, X^[2] user @DatChaosGuy posted an Low Tier God GIF reading, "Mods. Fill his stocking with coal," receiving over 102,000 likes in a day (shown below, left).

Also on November 20th, 2023, X^[3] user @AmyySucks posted a rendition of the White People at the Function meme, gaining over 16,000 likes in a day (shown below, right).

Viral iterations of the trend continued to surface on X^[3][4] via quote retweets going into the rest of November 2023. Non-GIF iterations surfaced during the same timeframe, such as a tweet shared by X^[5] user @TeedgeeOfficial who posted an image on November 21st, 2023, gaining over 610 likes in less than a day (shown below, left).

Also, iterations surfaced outside of quote retweets, evident in a tweet shared by X^[6] user @fyridk on November 20th, 2023, which featured a LeBron James GIF, gaining over 6,000 likes in a day (shown below, right).

Jollyposting On TikTok

Starting in late November 2023, many of the GIFs from Twitter / X were reposted to TikTok and given Christmas-themed sounds like Christmas carols. Creators on TikTok called the trend "Jollyposting," starting with a video posted by TikToker^[7] @metnoid on November 26th, that received roughly 167,600 plays and 37,100 likes in 10 days (shown below, left).

Various videos using the hashtag #jollyposting appeared on TikTok^[8] thereafter, such as a video uploaded by TikToker^[9] @mexican.fuuka on November 30th, 2023, that repurposed a scene from Serial Experiments Lain, receiving roughly 593,900 plays and 157,300 likes in six days (shown below, right).

By December 6th, 2023, #jollyposting had amassed over 2 million views on TikTok.^[8]

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