Dystopian
A bunch of cars in a parking lot lined up is so lame, poor kids.
think about how miserable their lives must be if their parents are so paranoid they think trick or treating in their affluent neighborhoods is ‘dangerous’.
i live in one of the safest cities in the country. i notice that new residents who move here… put up ring cameras all over their properties. if you ask them why they will tell you it’s because there is so much crime here and they have to protect themselves from home invasion etc. what they really do is just post racist/paranoid screencaps anytime a black person walks by their house to their facebook community pages.
it’s insane how delusional people are and how they are using tech to dig their delusions deeper and deeper.
they think trick or treating in their affluent neighborhoods is ‘dangerous’.
tbf those are exactly the yankees that shoot people who knock on their doors
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as someone who grew up a shitty neighborhood: these are godsends for halloween. very few people can afford to give away candy in shitty neigborhoods so we always did halloween by traveling through affluent neighborhoods growing up.
fast forward another 2 decades and my nephews/nieces grew up doing it in parking lots and convention halls; removing the need for hundreds of cars to slowly, wastefully, and dangerously escort trick-or-treaters with thousands of oblivious sugar spiked children walking around in view-obstructing costumes.
minivans can do permanent life-altering damage to an 6 year old even if it’s only creeping along at 5 miles per hour; ask me how i know.
It’s just helicopter parents and stranger danger manifest. Sad, really.
This started from churches
An MMO I play just started their yearly Halloween festival in-game. There’s a dungeon/zone where you roam around an area in groups of players, and the area is filled with enemies and occasionally floating ghostly doors that, when you interact with them, monsters appear and drop candy.
I played some of that for about half an hour earlier when I realized that the whole idea of trick or treating is… Not really a thing anymore. And that’s weird to think about. Because somehow, the event of Halloween is now basically entirely about the candy getting? Like, they eliminated the door-to-door at night thing. So now it’s basically a car show with kids getting candy?
As I stood there, in-game, knocking on doors and trick-or-treating and fighting mummies, spiders, and ghouls, I was just so confused how they took the traditional aspect of a weird and quirky but harmless and fun holiday away in favor of… just candy.
Like… No more spooky, no more pranks, no more mischief. Just “here’s your cheapass candy”. Maybe I need to go to one of these to understand it or something, because I can’t imagine it.
Like nightmare before Christmas but everybody’s a lobotomized eunuch.
Well in the US nowadays, People will shoot you for ringing their door bell. It’s all the freedom, you know?
my old job did this a few times - people would bring their kids to the fucking parking lot. it sounded super weird so i never participated.
What kind of sad childhood involves celebrating Halloween in an office parking lot.
Usually it’s a church parking lot.
Or a strip mall and the storefronts are also handing out candy to entice customers to browse.
Well they won’t be getting mine. I won’t be in my car on Halloween, I’ll be at home, watching scary movies and drinking rum and coke while giving out increasingly large handfuls of candy to those that actually use the words “trick or treat.”
Also eating candy.
And possibly throwing up.
American streets became so unwalkable that people just lazed around parking lots instead.
These became popular in the 2000s as a direct result of a lot of Stranger Danger propaganda.
They didn’t really take over until covid times when the churches pushed hard for them. It was basically the last big victory churches are getting in their crusade against “satanism” whatever the fuck that is
Slightly off topic but what in the All-American fuck is the "Junior Enlisted Association?
I looked it up, seems like some kind of fundraising club for low-ranking enlisted soldiers.
