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Skeleton Meme Season

The annual arrival of skeleton memes on the first of October — the dancing skeleton, the 'spooky scary skeletons' song, the countdown — and their departure on the first of November. The record's entry for a meme with a season ticket.

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Reddit and Twitter, annually from 30 September
Life & death · 2017–2027
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PEAK 2025
BORN · October 2018
NOW · 2026

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Definition @bricked_pixel · Archivist 5 Feb 2025

The record notes that skeleton memes are the only ones with a fixed calendar and a fixed exit, and that the internet respects the exit, mostly.

Memory @cdrom_burial · Coroner recent attribution unverified 23 Apr 2023

I remember when Skeleton Meme Season was still a niche thing — October 2018 — and you could use it without a footnote. The footnote arrived about six weeks later and never left.

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