Christmas Come Early?

**Christmas Come Early** is a meme created in November of 2015. The was originally crafted by memee **Zack Halverson**. It originally referred to the color combination of **Lucas Hwang**'s attire, but has since been used to out of context to generally meme on Lucas.

### History

#### Origin

**Christmas Come Early** was created early in November of 2015 when **Zack Halverson** made a comment about **Lucas Hwang**'s clothing. He noted that Lucas' pants were green and that his jacket was red, therefore creating a color combination similar to that of Christmas. The validity of this claim has since been challenged by Lucas, on the basis that Zack is color blind. Regardless, the claim has been substantiated with proper evidence and is now officially recognized as canon.

#### Original Usage

Upon its conception, **Christmas Come Early** was often quipped when Lucas did something funny. This changed as the meme got older, evolving into a general phrase aimed at Lucas completely out of context. Perhaps the most prominent usage of the meme occurred on November 19th of 2015, when Lucas sent an eMail to memer **Jackson Matley** containing the following:

Always,
Tiny

Thanks for writing! This is a very good question, and I think it's one that needs to come up a few times each holiday season. Honestly, I think there are many different interpretations of the matter, but I'll tackle your question to the best of my ability.
First of all, we need to understand the magnitude of the situation. What we're dealing with here isn't a Christmas that merely came a few hours premature. This year's holiday came an astounding 43 days early! That's over six weeks! As you would expect, many children were very excited to find that their favorite day of the year didn't take as much patience this time around.
However, if you want my true feelings on the matter, I'll have to be quite frank. While it may seem, at first, that the early holiday has led to an increase in happiness, it's unfortunately only a short-term benefit in regards to overall societal welfare. What's worse is that it even brings along many long-term harms.
First, we can look to the economic issues associated with Santa's premature arrival. You see, the holiday season is clearly a prime time for companies to profit. I'm sure we've all seen the holiday ads that flood our TVs before you've even touched your Halloween candy. The scramble of gift-shopping is a huge facet of the United States economy. However, Christmas coming ahead of schedule means that these companies have lost a whopping 43 days of potential sales, missing out on Black Friday as well. This is a huge problem, and one that is sure to land a huge blow on the US economy. Consumer simply haven't been given enough time to adequately fund their gift shopping, and business are therefore going to hurt big-time.
Secondly, we have to look to the consumers themselves: small, affluent families. When looking at the families themselves, even more problems manifest. A huge issue with the change of schedule means that Christmas came before most parents even had time to provide presents for their children. Therefore, although many children were excited when they awoke one morning to a newfound Christmas joy, they rushed over to the tree only to find emptiness and despair nestled under it. This led to chaos, as it even exposed the shocking fact that Santa isn't real to many children. What a shame.
Finally, I think we need to look at the conceptual aspect of Christmas coming early. This is perhaps one of the most important facets of not just the winter holiday, but of the western calendar itself. As we all know, the calendar we all know and love today is cyclical. What this means is that moving a holiday forward or backward on the calendar for just one year will result in the surplus or decrease of the amount of days until the next occurrence. Allow me to put this into layman's terms: if Christmas came one day late, that would mean that the number of days until the next Christmas would be decreased by one. Let's apply that concept to the situation at hand. In this case, Christmas has come six weeks and one day early. While this may sound beneficial now, one has to realize that the number of days until the next Christmas has been extended by a tremendous 43 days, therefore extending the wait significantly.
There you have it. These are my feelings on the subject. Others may disagree, but I simply gave you the facts of the matter. I hope I managed to answer your question, Tiny. I'd encourage the use of supplemental references such as the origins of the holiday to expand your knowledge of the subject further if you are compelled to do so, but as far as I'm concerned, this is really the basic foundation of the debate. I've also attached a picture further representing my feelings of the subject for your enjoyment as well. I'd like to thank you once again for providing such an interesting question, as I truly enjoy discussing the issue, and I'd also like to wish you a happy holiday season.
Eternally yours,
Jackson Matley
Professor Dep. of Cultural Festivities
U of Northampton
Alan E. Sharpe
Public Relations Specialist