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papercup posted...

Halloween has been celebrated for 2000 years though

Technically no. Our modern conception of Halloween only dates back something like 100 or 200 years.

BADoglick posted...

Have you noticed that within the past couple years it seems like there's a more fervent obsession with Halloween on social media? And people making posts looking forward to it months out, making memes about it while it's still July? And generally those posts are responded to favorably. Contrast that to how most of social media reacts to Christmas decorations being sold in October. If you made a fb post about looking forward to Christmas in September, people would groan at you (and rightfully so imo).

While I admittedly don't use social media (because, and this is true, fuck social media), I seriously doubt that's the case. People have been making a big deal out of Halloween for a very long time now, thanks to it transitioning to more of an "adult" holiday -- sexy costumes, extreme haunts, etc.

ReturnOfFa posted...

no, because I am aware that social media is not an accurate representation of what I see in real life. In my personal life I see less Halloween decorations around the neighborhood than I saw in the early 90s. There are of course a few people that go extravagant and buy whatever the 'latest thing' is; recall the tall skeleton and the tall pumpkin man this year. I'm sure Halloween spending has increased year over year in general though, simply due to population growth.

I feel like neighborhoods always going to be 100% anecdotal because they can vary immensely, depending on the number of kids in an area and the individual homeowners. If you have somebody with a lot of Halloween spirit, you tend to get pretty done-up houses because everybody else gets into it, too. However, when an area has few trick-or-treaters and nobody has a lot of spirit, you don't get decorations.

As such, some places will be over-the-top nowadays that had nothing in the 90s and vice versa.