Next Year Christmas Will Fall On 25/25/25
Part of a series on Spreading Misinformation. [View Related Entries]
This submission is currently being researched & evaluated!
You can help confirm this entry by contributing facts, media, and other evidence of notability and mutation.
About
Next Year Christmas Will Fall On 25/25/25 is a series of misinformation memes claiming that Christmas 2025 will fall on 25/25/25 on the calendar. The claim is false as there is no 25th month, meaning Christmas 2025 will actually fall on 12/25/25 (December 25th, 2025). Memes sharing the claim, including image macros, were popularized online in mid-December 2024, with the first known example being a Spanish-language video on TikTok.
Origin
On December 5th, 2024, TikToker[1] @ivansaltenoz posted a selfie video reacting with shock under a caption that translates to, "Next year Christmas will fall on 25/25/25," garnering over 8.2 million views in 12 days. This is the earliest known example of the meme.
@ivansaltenoz cosmico #parati #virales ♬ son original – nostalgia.z
Spread
The video inspired other memes sharing the same false claim over the following days. For example, on December 14th, 2024, TikToker[2] @kirkiimad posted a similar video where he reacts with shock under the caption, "Next year Christmas will fall on 25/25/25," garnering over 3.2 million views in three days.
@kirkiimad 😳😳
On the same day, an image macro was posted to /r/lies[3] using an image of Macaulay Culkin from Home Alone under the claim, garnering over 20,000 upvotes in three days.
On December 15th, Threads[4] user bitoey19 posted an image macro using an image from SpongeBob to share the misinformation, garnering over 20,000 likes and 780 reposts in two days.
On December 16th, X[5] user @RaeofGeorgia posted, "Next year Christmas will fall on 25/25/25 🤯🤯😳🥰," garnering over 50,000 likes in a day. Later that day, X[6] user @ItzDaMoth made a similar post, garnering over 41,000 likes in the same rough span of time.
That same day, Instagram[7] user jackandsallylovers posted a version of the meme that gained over 3,000 likes in a day.
Various Examples
_by_officiallythat2.jpg){kind=icon}
