Santavirus: Christmas Outbreak Gets Earlier Every Year

This meme features a photograph of a large audience filled with dozens of people dressed as Santa Claus, most with long white beards and red holiday attire, attending a Santa performer convention. A bold white text overlay in the center of the image reads 'SANTAVIRUS', a punny portmanteau combining 'Santa' and 'virus' referencing common pandemic-era outbreak terminology. The joke, paired with the original title, playfully compares the increasingly early arrival of Christmas promotions, Santa appearances, and holiday season activities each year to a contagious viral outbreak that is spreading and starting sooner annually.

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Overview

This meme features a photograph of a large audience filled with dozens of people dressed as Santa Claus, most with long white beards and red holiday attire, attending a Santa performer convention. A bold white text overlay in the center of the image reads 'SANTAVIRUS', a punny portmanteau combining 'Santa' and 'virus' referencing common pandemic-era outbreak terminology. The joke, paired with the original title, playfully compares the increasingly early arrival of Christmas promotions, Santa appearances, and holiday season activities each year to a contagious viral outbreak that is spreading and starting sooner annually.

Origin notes

This meme was originally shared on Reddit as an original user-created meme, with the original poster giving it the title 'This scares me more. The outbreak gets earlier every year.' It is created by adding the 'SANTAVIRUS' text overlay to an existing real photograph of a Santa Claus convention gathering for professional Santa performers. The image was also uploaded to the meme creation site Imgflip, as evidenced by the watermark in the bottom left corner.