so, idk if I'm the only one feeling this but Halloween just..doesn't feel fun anymore, y'know? I dunno if it's cause I'm getting older but I always loved Halloween, I still do it's just..my neighborhood isn't setting the Halloween..maybe I should see a different area or smth? I don't know..please tell me I'm not the only one feeling this :sob:
Bye-Bye my dearest~!
~D1V1N3
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evening_gray
Yeah my town has gotten similar over the years. They host a single halloween event at my school but nobody really talks about it. Honestly I just hit up my friends and we head to a halloween festival a couple towns away
victorisavampire
I think we’re pushing holidays comedically but not communally. There’s a fair amount of Halloween stuff in stores but barely anyone is actually hyped about it because we’ve lost the ability to come together and agree to something as a community. I think social media has also made it so that everyone is lazy and don’t want to be judged in any way, or seen as anything outside of the archetype of ‘cool/normal’ laid out for them, so we don’t get all crazy about Halloween anymore and we don’t actually put up stuff.
I think with how commercial everything is nowadays, we generalise a lot of things so they are favoured and therefore invested in/bought by the public, so we’ve made Halloween be something that is a lot more generic than it should be just so it’s more appealing to a general audience.
Christmas is being pushed onto us right now too, and I think it’s disgustingly early and completely takes away from the joy of Halloween. Everyone is more focused on what they’re going to do in December right now. But that means that they’ll be exhausted of Christmas by the time it actually comes around!
A lot of over-generalisation has killed Halloween, basically. It’s not the same at all. But I do believe some people including myself are properly celebrating it (I’m gonna cosplay Frankenstein’s Monster and Jon from TMA and I’m gonna carve pumpkins later)
Oh my stars this is SO real! I sometimes sit and wonder if simply being expressive is outside of that "cool/normal" field. Like, from I believe 2014 to 2019, Halloween was all around. Now? There's like 2 people dressed up and they call it a day. Like no! It kinda irritates me that people just skip holidays. It's gotten to the point where the main holidays are New Years, Valentine's day, Halloween, and Christmas. There's SOOOO much more than that in a singular year. What happened to St. Patrick's Day? What happened to Thanksgiving? Hell, what even happened to The 4th of July??? It's kinda sickening, really. [I'm gonna be Zoro and go to a trunk or treat !!]
by .sle3p_d3pr1v3d.; ; Report
Yes. It’s a huge loss of community we need to focus on. It’s concerning
also that’s really cool I love seeing people actually dressing up for this beautiful holiday
by victorisavampire; ; Report
turquoisetowers
I felt like this for a while after I decided I was too old to keep trick or treating, but now I dress up to hand out candy and its so much fun! :D