[347/365] Whamifesto

By December first this year, when friends started posting about #Whamageddon, I was already feeling personally offended. I had shown them how to live a life beyond Whamageddon! In posts made just before midnight on Facebook which won't show them to all my friends anyway! How dare they not have seen them, agreed with them, and changed their ways by the next afternoon?!

Heh.

How did this happen to me? How did I go from not knowing about Whamageddon to not caring about it for a couple of years to being vehemently opposed by this year?

Well, some time in December 2020, I think it was strange_complex who I saw saying online that she didn't like Whamageddon. I think I remember that it made her sad, because "Last Christmas" is a nice song and she didn't like missing out on it.

This was the first time I started to wonder about this game.

Whamageddon, for those who don't know what it is, is a "game" that consists solely of people complaining on social media (or elsewhere I guess!) when a nice thing happens to them.

Okay I'm not being fair. Like I said, I've been radicalized these last couple years.

Whamageddon is an attempt not to hear Wham!'s song "Last Christmas" from the beginning of December until the end of Christmas Eve. Once you hear it (on the radio or n a store or because your friend has maliciously tricked you), you lose the game, you are sent to "Whamhalla."

( The Whamifesto gets long. )

Anyway, if you want revenge games to play, I have found two over the last couple of years: #ReverseWhammageddon where it's actually good to hear "Last Christmas," and #Bublévion because if you want a Christmas-song-avoidance game, Michael Bublé provides both a much easier and much more rewarding (it really does feel like an accomplishment to turn off the radio when one of his songs appears!) version. I got the rules of both from social media, and I will include them here.

( #ReverseWhammageddon )

( #Bublévion )

Thanks for reading.