Winter Festivals in Popular Culture
- Festivus: in the TV series Seinfeld: An alternative event for those who prefer to avoid normal holiday expectations. "A Festivus for the rest of us".
- Winter-een-mas: The annual week long celebration of video games and the people that play them. Winter-een-mas is a holiday that takes place every year from January 25 to 31, but is also commonly celebrated for a month. The entire month of January constitutes the Winter-een-mas season, very similar to the "Christmas season", where people begin to gear up for the holiday, and get into the spirit of things. The holiday was started by the fictional character Ethan in webcomic Ctrl+Alt+Del by Tim Buckley. Its stated goal is to "celebrate the joy of video gaming". Many gaming stores, such as EB Games, celebrate the holiday.
- Freezingman: - 11 January - A Burning Man inspired event held in Colorado as a Winter Arts and Music Festival.
- Feast of Winter Veil: December 15 to January 2 - holiday in the MMORPG World of Warcraft. This holiday is based on Christmas. Cities are decorated with Christmas lights and a tree with presents. Also special quests, items and snowballs are available. It features 'Greatfather Winter' which is modeled after .
- Feast of Alvis: in the TV series Sealab 2021. "Believer, you have forgotten the true meaning of Alvis Day. Neither is it ham, nor pomp. Nay, the true meaning of Alvis day is drinking. Drinking and revenge."--Alvis
- Hogswatch: a holiday celebrated on the fictional world of Discworld. It is very similar to the Christian celebration of Christmas.
- Decemberween: a parody of Christmas that features gift-giving, carol-singing and decorated trees. The fact that it takes place on December 25, the same day as Christmas, has been presented as just a coincidence, and it has been stated that Decemberween traditionally takes place "55 days after Halloween". The holidays has been feature in the Homestar Runner series.
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