Social media killed the magic of Christmas

 The last few years social media has been flooded with posts saying Christmas "doesn't feel magical anymore" and "isn't the same".

The thing is though... Christmas hasn't changed. You have.

But that's okay, because the reason you changed isn't your fault. It's because the internet has become significantly less accepting of anything outside of the "norm". All these posts first showed up in around 2022 for the most part. What happened in 2022? We all went back to the judgement of real life after two years of being able to be whoever we wanted without judgement.

People have made trends out of making fun of how they dressed and acted in 2020/2021. But as much as that time sucked in many ways, it was also a time when people could be honest about who they were again. Suddenly there was no worrying about people from school judging you because you didn't have to see them again for nobody knew how long.

People got back into their "nerdy" and "childish" interests they were previously bullied for. People dressed in styles they were previously afraid to. People were happy, and I think that was the last time most of Gen Z experienced real self expression.

Christmas isn't fun if you're pretending to be something you're not.

Christmas isn't fun if you refuse to take part in activities because it's "cringey". 

Christmas isn't fun if your childhood of opening toys on Christmas morning is replaced with opening things a bunch of random influencers told you to buy instead of things you really want.

Christmas isn't fun if you decorate with beige.

Social media killed individuality, and with it, it killed the magic of Christmas.

Well, influencers did.

I don't actually think social media is the problem. I think influencers are the problem. People look up to them and trust them far too much for the fact that their job is to be a living advertisement. Nothing an influencer says can be trusted. No product review is honest. They are being paid to say the things they tell you about these things you suddenly think you need even though they bring you no joy.

Influencers are professional liars, yet everyone blindly trusts them and structures their lives around what they say.

Free thinking has been lost for so much of this generation, and then they wonder why they're so miserable, but their entire life is a performance.

Christmas will never feel the same if you are denying yourself all of the things that made it feel how it felt before. "That's cringey!!" Too bad. Go watch a kids movie, decorate a gingerbread house, and cover your house in rainbow Christmas decor. Colourful lights, nutcrackers on every shelf, random ornaments with personal meaning instead of aesthetic themes, buy a classic chocolate advent calendar, ask for what you actually want for Christmas instead of looking up "Christmas wishlist 2025" on TikTok and asking for the first thing your told to.

THINK. FOR. YOURSELF.

You will be so much happier, and not only Christmas will feel magical again, but life will too.