I know many people claim that “kids don’t trick or treat anymore” or “people don’t put up decorations,” but that’s far FAR from the case because it honestly just depends on the area you live in. Where I am, people still decorate and there are still plenty of trick or treaters, even if there isn’t as much as there were when I was a kid, it’s still better than nothing. And I know this because almost every year since 2017, I have been doing spooky displays in my front yard to give out candy to people. And to me, that’s a part of Halloween I can enjoy as an adult, letting my spooky creativity shine with the displays I create and giving candy to others. The Halloween spirit is how you make it out to be and how you experience it. And you don’t have to make a display in your front yard if you don’t want to, find your own ways to celebrate Halloween while you’re growing and still alive and see what still gives you the Halloween spirit as an adult.
"even if there wasn't as much as when I was a kid" That's basically the whole thing. Everyone has been indoctrinated into being scared of each other so there aren't many more kids trick or treating. All families do is go to these events where there's a subpar Halloween party.
@@sea_triscuit7980 Well I wouldn’t really say that’s the reason, another reason is because simply like me, most of the kids in my neighborhood grew up and there’s just a smaller amount of kids going out to trick or treat, even before the pandemic I realized it was like that in my area. Besides, not every Halloween party these days are “subpar”
@@Sorcerer-SMCThat’s the thing. In YOUR neighborhood. Based on what YOU’VE seen. But the issue is FAR bigger than one neighborhood of people struggling to have kids. We’re seeing the appeal for Halloween drop nationwide. If not worldwide. Plus, as more and more people aren’t having children, the idea of trick or treating is falling to the wayside, especially when you add on the panic for those who do have kids about the “fears of Halloween” good for you and yours but Halloween is dying. That’s just the facts. It’s an end of an era😢
Too much "trunk or treat" where I'm at. The city does decorate certain parks and public spaces. But I'm used to Chicago where Daley Plaza (a big government building) would be transformed into a haunted landscape. And Navy Pier being turned into a giant nautically themed haunted HOUSE with creepy performer everywhere. One year there was also a giant inflatable dragon that itself was a haunted house, about half a block long. You crawled down its throat, made your way through it's haunted innards and the half-digested horrors within and out through the, er, " rear exit". Good times!! (Of course this was back I think before 2010.)
@@kingrobotnik6950 Ok, it’s not just my area dude. There are still places all over America, if not the world, that still celebrate Halloween and holidays in general. I don’t know where exactly, but I have heard that there are many neighborhoods and developments in America and who knows where else where a bunch of kids still dress up and trick or treat. And even older people still keep the spirit of the holidays alive by celebrating in all sorts of unique ways. Not just with Halloween, but holidays in general. So no, Halloween is NOT dead, and it is NOT the end of an era. The holidays are just changing, simple as that. If Halloween and the other holidays really WERE dead, they wouldn’t sell decorations and such for it anymore. So what you’re saying is not “just the facts” it’s just opinions out of the fear of change (which is something a lot of people unfortunately have nowadays). I know change is scary, but change isn’t always a bad thing. Because like I said, people who celebrated Halloween in the past and have now grown up, are finding new ways to celebrate it as adults, it may be different from how it used to be, but it can still be fun. Whether it’s going to Halloween parties or events, giving out candy to trick or treaters, or even watching Halloween specials and/or horror movies; people everywhere are still celebrating Halloween in their own unique way. So like I said, Halloween and all the other holidays aren’t dying, they’re just changing as times normally do. So instead of dwelling on the past and focusing on the negatives of the world, find your own ways to keep your Halloween spirit alive as an adult. Simple as that.
I mostly celebrate Halloween watching Halloween themed cartoons, movies, and special Halloween episodes from my favorite shows. And rewatch the documentaries talking about Halloween over the years. And singing Halloween themed songs. Halloween is still alive in me🎃
I love to watch scary movies and scary videos mostly from Top15s and Chills. I decorate and carve jack o lanterns. Halloween definitely hasn’t left me 🎃
Halloween is mostly about scary movies for me. I re-watch all those old horror films from the 70s and 80s mostly. Back in the day, pumpkin festivals and decorating were a big part of the holiday for me.
It's not just Halloween, it's everything. Life is just going by and every holiday or notable event are just days that pass. Society is getting sicker, more isolated, and depressed.
Well TBH, I feel like it all depends on one’s point of view. If you focus on only the negatives of the world, you’ll feel miserable most of your life. And I know it’s hard for many people to find joy or hope, but it’s not far out of reach. There are many people in the world, young or old, who still celebrate the holidays in multiple different ways. The holidays have never faded, it just depends on the POVs of people and how they choose to celebrate. And I say instead of feeling sad and moping about how things “used to be,” focus on the now in a more positive light, use your holiday experiences of the past to try and think of new ways to celebrate the holidays now. And I know from experience too, not just from creating spooky displays in my front yard for Halloween, but in general. I originally wasn’t sure how I’d celebrate 4th of July this year aside from rewatching Hamilton on Disney+, but my mom invited me to cheer her on in town for a 4th of July 4 Mile Run. And while she was running I got two 4th of July-themed desserts at the bakery before she could come to the finish line. And after I cheered her on at the finish, we reunited with her friends and had a nice lunch together at a restaurant’s outdoor seating while watching the town’s 4th of July parade. And after that we had our usual cookout and watched Hamilton. It may not have been entirely the same from how I experienced 4th of July as a kid, but it was a new and fun experience as an adult. Long story short, don’t waste the rest of your life focusing on only the negatives of the world, find ways to celebrate the holidays as an adult in new ways.
it really is true what he said... all these holidays are aimed at kids. The magic of Halloween and Christmas is for kids. Adults just can't enjoy them as much as kids do. As for Easter, it was kind of boring for me even as a kid.
Being fourteen, halloween is still something to me, and I'm not sure what he's talking about. Even the "nostalgia" pictures that he was showing just look like some of the normal halloween decorations my family about to put up in my yard like the other neighbors around me.
I wish I had the balls to trick or treat like you. I just can't walk about to some strangers house in a costume towering over everyone and ask for candy
I'm 69 years old. Halloween is, was and always will be my favorite holiday. I like it better than Christmas. I've been a horror fan all my life and love horror movies, novels, short stories, comics, creepy classical music and so on. Now that I am retired I have the time to play Gepetto and create my own sick Halloween decorations for the yard, and carve a small army of scary jack o' lanterns for the front porch. The best part is the delight of the little trick or treaters. While I enjoyed Halloween as a child, making memories for others and keeping the tradition going is its own reward.
Yes, and no. I think in the cities you get more of the large public Halloween gatherings and private Halloween parties, but people don't decorate as much and there isn't much trick or treating. I think in the suburbs people decorate more and more emphasis is put on trick or treating.
Yeah, pretty much. It's a celebration associated with harvest time...and was always a bigger thing in rural areas and smaller suburbs. People are just too busy and jaded in the cities for it.
When I was a kid, the area I grew up in usually had a ton of houses decorated and/or giving out candy. By the time I got into high school and considered myself too old to Trick-or-treat(or rather, I couldn't be arsed to choose a costume and then go walking around for a few hours). the last few times I went Trick-or-treating we had to go twice as far to get to hit the same number of houses we used to and would maybe get like 75% as much candy at best. IIRC, the last time I went was like 2008, so the recession probably didn't help with that, but it was a pattern for a few years before that. I can only imagine how much worse it is now given that I only see *maybe* one house per block with any kinds of decorations.
You also have to consider immigration patterns. Today, there are more people from parts of the world that don't celebrate Halloween. I figure in 50 years, Halloween won't be much of a thing in America anymore.
Made me smile. I enjoyed that. We used to go back and forth on Halloween. There were so many homes giving out candy. We had piles and pikes of it. Then we were off to the mall to get more candy and even some great little gifts from the store. One year the record store gave out bubble gum records. We were so excited. Sadly, gone are those days. Trunk or treat is safe but it's not as fun as going door to door.
And don't forget the Christmas Creep! By Halloween week, oftentimes before, many stores and some public spaces are decorated for Xmas. And xmas stuff has been on the shelves since September(these last two years at least QVC and HSN have had their studios decorated for XMas on occasion since early summer). It's hard to feel 'Halloweeny' when there is jingle bells, Santa Claus, Xmas trees, and winter wonderland everywhere!
Yeah...back in the day, Christmas stuff didn't appear until Blk Friday. Then, it started coming out before Thanksgiving...next, it was showing up right after Halloween. Now, from what I hear, it's starting in September. Pretty soon it will start with Christmas in July and continue on for half a year.
@johnnyag1912 economic reasons, so less candy options, cheap props not made in the states, lack of focus, entire country being consumed with trying to push brainwashing instead of telling good stories. People not acting like rational men and women of yesteryear. The list goes on.
heck if a bunch of Clone Trooper cosplayers showed up at my door on Halloween they'd be getting so much candy... I'm one of those people who honors Halloween in their heart and tries to keep it all the year. It's just rough when you can't afford to decorate/give out candy to the kids and official stuff has taken place like a week earlier (do *not* get me started on the travesty that is the Trunk or Treat. Grrr!)
Most houses on my street go full ham with Halloween decorations. Huge, 20 foot tall skeletons, lights everywhere--its great. Nothing like eating Pizza, watching horror movies with friends and handing out candy. 😊
Although my family was Pentecostal, our parents let us celebrate Halloween fun just like anyone else. The costume stuff isn't as much fun now because of PC spoilsports. It's also a lot more gruesome than it was when I was growing up in the twentieth century.
Halloween is primarily a holiday for kids. So when you grow up, it will mean less. To make it special for me, I ask off work. Taking a day of work makes any holiday special.
I blame the Fuddy Duddies. As soon as I decorated my yard a few neighbours started putting up decorations the next year. Like it was Dark down my street now there’s a few houses with lights and decorations down the street. Also don’t be Cheap with the Candy. Decorations are nice but Candy is what it’s about to the trick or Treaters.
I don’t even give out Halloween candy anymore. We’ve had little to no Trick or Treaters on my street, over the past few years, mostly due to Covid. Also, if it’s too cold 🥶 out, then people don’t bother to come out. I agree that it was better when we were kids. Plus, I have no children, to take out Trick or Treating. But I do enjoy seeing the pictures of my niece in her Halloween costumes, that my sister sends. Otherwise, no, it’s not the same. But we can still keep the memories alive, and create new ones.
I think this is very dependent on neighborhood/region. If anything, I see much more emphasis on celebrating all month long than when I was a kid. Also, a lot more public and community-wide festivities and events (for instance, just about every zoo I know goes all-out in a way that wasn't nearly as widespread a couple decades ago). It may not perfectly match your childhood memories, but there's a ton of enthusiasm for Halloween.
why halloween feels different...now people are to lazy. adults cant be bothered to hand out candy and kids cant be bothered to leave the house. i get so fuew trick or treaters now when compared to even 10 years ago.
These are the same feelings your grandparents felt and their grandparents and so on. It's called getting old and not liking changes... They still happened you like it or not 😂
"adult halloween party" is basically a party is basically a party but with costumes, is not even like people go nuts, people can go nuts every day of the year
Let me summarize why: 1) You are not a kid anymore. As you get older you have more life experience and start to forget what it was to have those experiences. 2) The pandemic. ‘Nuff said. Inflation, mistrust. It changed the entire world forever, and not in a good way. 3) People are having less children and the boomers are aging out. Less children, less trick or treaters. 4) We now live in a divided world where people have de-evolved into tribalism, whether it be for political or ideological reasons. Instead of respectfully accepting our differences it’s now become an us versus them society, leading to the breakdown in the community. I can be in political camp A and still enjoy my Halloween and horror, but political camp B will say it’s our way or the highway and won’t want to associate with anyone else except in their echo chamber (The left AND the right are both guilty of it) 5) cell phones and social media. We are more divided, apart, and depressed because of these things.
I know trick or treating first came in the 1930s and candy did not become a thing on Halloween until after world war 2 before that Halloween was all about parties and youths did pranks and vandalism and the only thing that resembles trick or treating is Ragamuffin Day and that takes place on thanksgiving
You know that really reminds us that true horror isn’t werewolves or vampires or zombies witches mummies spiders ghosts aliens demons or even spooky scary skeletons… it’s decay that really scares us, something that can’t be stopped by a crucifix holy water flash light or simply saying I’m not afraid of you, it’s a natural death that comes slowly and agonizingly that no creature whether it be god or demon can escape… and Halloween is just a another victim of time.
No it’s not. As an adult you can still find ways to enjoy Halloween when grew out of trick or treating and wearing costumes. For example I have a casual Pumpkin Carving Party with my Family on putting horror movies while doing with. As for that, if no costume, I wear Halloween theme Horror Movie T Shirt or Wear All Black with Black Makeup.
For a retrospective reason… Okay hear out, but don’t get overly-done with it now, but… I believe Halloween doesn’t feel the same anymore because literally no sees it’s true meaning and origin.
i beg to differ i think its from kids acting more adult and not wanting to go trick or treating (probably from covid too all they know is probably trunk or treating and social distancing stuff) although i guess they don't know any better but it's just simple supply and demand especially because just a lot of things target kids
@@goodluckpupPartly true, but not fully. High housing mortgage rates and young couples choosing not to have kids do to the economic climate we are in right now has also contributed to it
Actually… Halloween is technically not the only time it’s socially acceptable, as… well… For example, those conventions you showed! If other people are gathered and doing it together, then obviously, in that case at that place and point in time, it IS socially acceptable, just… maybe not by the wider world. But definitely inside that convention center for around three days.
I meant socially acceptable to go out in public dressed up. Conventions are meant for that, but people would still give you looks if you had a costume on in public any day aside from Halloween
Halloween 2024 hadn't even rolled around yet, and already grocery stores are carrying eggnog and Nintendo's airing Christmas commercials. Jesus Christ has risen just to change his middle name to Fucking.
Schools and businesses aren’t allowed to celebrate any holidays anymore (it has nothing to do with people being offended). Long story short, CEO’s are too greedy to buy/store decorations so they made up this “pc” nonsense
For me, a lot of satanists or people who take it as a serious ritual season ruins it for me, like those people who like to make independence day, Christmas, and Thanksgiving secular. They are American holidays, not your political campaign. They are as bad as the Halloween antis of the 80s and 90s, but on the other extreme end. Oh, that and inflation has ruined everything as well as the complete decline of kids.
You freaks have been saying this since the 80s, & probably before that. Its makes Halloween more special you guys are out there tho, kinda like a rock concert few looney fundie protesters. It adds to the ambience, plus it gives you something to do. Idle hands as they say boooga booga booga 🎃
How come you did not mention that the Irish were Catholic and celebrated the "Eve of All Saints Day" (aka: Halloween) with family gathering with kids playing little pranks as part of the Trick or Treat. Also, it is not out of the ordinary for two seperate Religions to have their own feast or celebration on the same day. Hallow means Holy, for example, "... Hallow be thy Name...". Halloween means "Evening of All Saints Day." There is nothing pagan or Samhain about that. It's Christian. Get it together. If you own a Toyota Tundra, it doesn't mean you're driving Ford pickup. Both are of the same class, yet seperate entities. Stop saying Samhain is Halloween. They're not.
@chaoticlimes they are wrong. Yes, both are celebrated on the same day, but one is Christian and the other Pagan. Tying them together is a common mistake by all NON-CHRISTIANS, or Christians who have zero knowledge of their history and traditions. If Budist or Hindus have a special celebration that happens to fall on the same day of a Christian feast day, the two do not become one and the same.
I think most of it has to do with the last 4 years of drama thanks to a certain president who shall not be named..and I ain't talkin' about Biden. Sorry to put politics into this but between this, covid and everything else going on right now, I think a lot of people weren't feeling the holiday spirit. This year however feels different for everyone, including adults. Things feel like they're finally (if not slowly) coming back to 2019 levels of normal.
I think the biggest difference is how DARK people like making Halloween now. when we were kids, it was bright colors mixed with black, smiling pumpkins, cute bats, lots of angel and fairy costumes, wholesome Halloween movies (Halloweentown, Garfield's Halloween, It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown, etc). Now? It's all wicca, gore and guts. No thanks.
Sorry, Halloween OUGHT to be scary. Otherwise, what's the point? There is nothing more insipid than a smiling pumpkin- the original idea was to create a horrific glowing totem to scare away evil spirits. The tepid Halloween you describe killed interest in the holiday through sheer boredom.
I know many people claim that “kids don’t trick or treat anymore” or “people don’t put up decorations,” but that’s far FAR from the case because it honestly just depends on the area you live in.
Where I am, people still decorate and there are still plenty of trick or treaters, even if there isn’t as much as there were when I was a kid, it’s still better than nothing. And I know this because almost every year since 2017, I have been doing spooky displays in my front yard to give out candy to people. And to me, that’s a part of Halloween I can enjoy as an adult, letting my spooky creativity shine with the displays I create and giving candy to others.
The Halloween spirit is how you make it out to be and how you experience it. And you don’t have to make a display in your front yard if you don’t want to, find your own ways to celebrate Halloween while you’re growing and still alive and see what still gives you the Halloween spirit as an adult.
"even if there wasn't as much as when I was a kid"
That's basically the whole thing. Everyone has been indoctrinated into being scared of each other so there aren't many more kids trick or treating. All families do is go to these events where there's a subpar Halloween party.
@@sea_triscuit7980 Well I wouldn’t really say that’s the reason, another reason is because simply like me, most of the kids in my neighborhood grew up and there’s just a smaller amount of kids going out to trick or treat, even before the pandemic I realized it was like that in my area.
Besides, not every Halloween party these days are “subpar”
@@Sorcerer-SMCThat’s the thing. In YOUR neighborhood. Based on what YOU’VE seen. But the issue is FAR bigger than one neighborhood of people struggling to have kids. We’re seeing the appeal for Halloween drop nationwide. If not worldwide. Plus, as more and more people aren’t having children, the idea of trick or treating is falling to the wayside, especially when you add on the panic for those who do have kids about the “fears of Halloween” good for you and yours but Halloween is dying. That’s just the facts. It’s an end of an era😢
Too much "trunk or treat" where I'm at. The city does decorate certain parks and public spaces.
But I'm used to Chicago where Daley Plaza (a big government building) would be transformed into a haunted landscape. And Navy Pier being turned into a giant nautically themed haunted HOUSE with creepy performer everywhere. One year there was also a giant inflatable dragon that itself was a haunted house, about half a block long. You crawled down its throat, made your way through it's haunted innards and the half-digested horrors within and out through the, er, " rear exit". Good times!! (Of course this was back I think before 2010.)
@@kingrobotnik6950 Ok, it’s not just my area dude. There are still places all over America, if not the world, that still celebrate Halloween and holidays in general. I don’t know where exactly, but I have heard that there are many neighborhoods and developments in America and who knows where else where a bunch of kids still dress up and trick or treat. And even older people still keep the spirit of the holidays alive by celebrating in all sorts of unique ways. Not just with Halloween, but holidays in general.
So no, Halloween is NOT dead, and it is NOT the end of an era. The holidays are just changing, simple as that. If Halloween and the other holidays really WERE dead, they wouldn’t sell decorations and such for it anymore. So what you’re saying is not “just the facts” it’s just opinions out of the fear of change (which is something a lot of people unfortunately have nowadays). I know change is scary, but change isn’t always a bad thing. Because like I said, people who celebrated Halloween in the past and have now grown up, are finding new ways to celebrate it as adults, it may be different from how it used to be, but it can still be fun. Whether it’s going to Halloween parties or events, giving out candy to trick or treaters, or even watching Halloween specials and/or horror movies; people everywhere are still celebrating Halloween in their own unique way.
So like I said, Halloween and all the other holidays aren’t dying, they’re just changing as times normally do. So instead of dwelling on the past and focusing on the negatives of the world, find your own ways to keep your Halloween spirit alive as an adult. Simple as that.
Beautiful video!
I mostly celebrate Halloween watching Halloween themed cartoons, movies, and special Halloween episodes from my favorite shows. And rewatch the documentaries talking about Halloween over the years. And singing Halloween themed songs.
Halloween is still alive in me🎃
What about doing pranks and vandalism like in the old days like before wwII?
@@JonathanHeydh-vy4yw Hell Night the night before Halloween
@@YoursTrulyThe1Pony I've heard of that, but does anyone really go out doing pranks on the night before Halloween?
I love to watch scary movies and scary videos mostly from Top15s and Chills. I decorate and carve jack o lanterns. Halloween definitely hasn’t left me 🎃
Halloween is mostly about scary movies for me. I re-watch all those old horror films from the 70s and 80s mostly. Back in the day, pumpkin festivals and decorating were a big part of the holiday for me.
I agree with everything you said. In short i guess adults just have way to much to worry about to even begin enjoying Halloween 😢
It's not just Halloween, it's everything. Life is just going by and every holiday or notable event are just days that pass. Society is getting sicker, more isolated, and depressed.
Well TBH, I feel like it all depends on one’s point of view. If you focus on only the negatives of the world, you’ll feel miserable most of your life. And I know it’s hard for many people to find joy or hope, but it’s not far out of reach. There are many people in the world, young or old, who still celebrate the holidays in multiple different ways. The holidays have never faded, it just depends on the POVs of people and how they choose to celebrate.
And I say instead of feeling sad and moping about how things “used to be,” focus on the now in a more positive light, use your holiday experiences of the past to try and think of new ways to celebrate the holidays now. And I know from experience too, not just from creating spooky displays in my front yard for Halloween, but in general. I originally wasn’t sure how I’d celebrate 4th of July this year aside from rewatching Hamilton on Disney+, but my mom invited me to cheer her on in town for a 4th of July 4 Mile Run. And while she was running I got two 4th of July-themed desserts at the bakery before she could come to the finish line. And after I cheered her on at the finish, we reunited with her friends and had a nice lunch together at a restaurant’s outdoor seating while watching the town’s 4th of July parade. And after that we had our usual cookout and watched Hamilton. It may not have been entirely the same from how I experienced 4th of July as a kid, but it was a new and fun experience as an adult.
Long story short, don’t waste the rest of your life focusing on only the negatives of the world, find ways to celebrate the holidays as an adult in new ways.
Then get up and stop being isolated.
@@hardiehardley Learn how to read 🤦♂️. I said people in general. Don't be a smartass because you're not smart.
@@Sorcerer-SMCI don't focus on only negatives, just the real state of society. And I ain't reading that whole Powerpuff Girls essay.
it really is true what he said... all these holidays are aimed at kids. The magic of Halloween and Christmas is for kids. Adults just can't enjoy them as much as kids do. As for Easter, it was kind of boring for me even as a kid.
Being fourteen, halloween is still something to me, and I'm not sure what he's talking about. Even the "nostalgia" pictures that he was showing just look like some of the normal halloween decorations my family about to put up in my yard like the other neighbors around me.
Same
Give it a couple of years. It'll hit
Its not necessarily Halloween decorations. It just as as an adult your neighborhood grows up too and you see less and less people celebrating.
"where can i find the uh... dr. pepper" goes hard
Especially the motorized cart and the jabba driving it at Walmart.
24 and I still trick or treat and throw Halloween parties with friends.
I wish I had the balls to trick or treat like you. I just can't walk about to some strangers house in a costume towering over everyone and ask for candy
I'm 69 years old. Halloween is, was and always will be my favorite holiday. I like it better than Christmas. I've been a horror fan all my life and love horror movies, novels, short stories, comics, creepy classical music and so on. Now that I am retired I have the time to play Gepetto and create my own sick Halloween decorations for the yard, and carve a small army of scary jack o' lanterns for the front porch. The best part is the delight of the little trick or treaters. While I enjoyed Halloween as a child, making memories for others and keeping the tradition going is its own reward.
Unpopular opinion but I think Halloween is more celebrated in small towns and rural areas more than it is in the city.
Yes, and no. I think in the cities you get more of the large public Halloween gatherings and private Halloween parties, but people don't decorate as much and there isn't much trick or treating. I think in the suburbs people decorate more and more emphasis is put on trick or treating.
Yeah, pretty much. It's a celebration associated with harvest time...and was always a bigger thing in rural areas and smaller suburbs. People are just too busy and jaded in the cities for it.
When I was a kid, the area I grew up in usually had a ton of houses decorated and/or giving out candy. By the time I got into high school and considered myself too old to Trick-or-treat(or rather, I couldn't be arsed to choose a costume and then go walking around for a few hours). the last few times I went Trick-or-treating we had to go twice as far to get to hit the same number of houses we used to and would maybe get like 75% as much candy at best. IIRC, the last time I went was like 2008, so the recession probably didn't help with that, but it was a pattern for a few years before that. I can only imagine how much worse it is now given that I only see *maybe* one house per block with any kinds of decorations.
You also have to consider immigration patterns. Today, there are more people from parts of the world that don't celebrate Halloween. I figure in 50 years, Halloween won't be much of a thing in America anymore.
I think Sam is pissed to see many people are using technology and disgrace his holiday
Made me smile. I enjoyed that. We used to go back and forth on Halloween. There were so many homes giving out candy. We had piles and pikes of it. Then we were off to the mall to get more candy and even some great little gifts from the store. One year the record store gave out bubble gum records. We were so excited. Sadly, gone are those days. Trunk or treat is safe but it's not as fun as going door to door.
I’m so glad I’m the only one who feels this way! 😭 Halloween has not been feeling the same!
This year I think it finally caught up to me. Halloween Depression😞
Even tho we in october this year it finally caught up with me by not feeling it anymore 🥲😭
And don't forget the Christmas Creep! By Halloween week, oftentimes before, many stores and some public spaces are decorated for Xmas. And xmas stuff has been on the shelves since September(these last two years at least QVC and HSN have had their studios decorated for XMas on occasion since early summer). It's hard to feel 'Halloweeny' when there is jingle bells, Santa Claus, Xmas trees, and winter wonderland everywhere!
Yeah...back in the day, Christmas stuff didn't appear until Blk Friday. Then, it started coming out before Thanksgiving...next, it was showing up right after Halloween. Now, from what I hear, it's starting in September. Pretty soon it will start with Christmas in July and continue on for half a year.
Halloween isnt the same because of other issues. Even the kids notice.
Like what?
@johnnyag1912 economic reasons, so less candy options, cheap props not made in the states, lack of focus, entire country being consumed with trying to push brainwashing instead of telling good stories. People not acting like rational men and women of yesteryear. The list goes on.
halloween didn't even come yet😭
True lol
Whole October is halloween
@@moycorbin4750 nah
@@KawaiiBandaids so..?
@@GoobySnoobers ye
heck if a bunch of Clone Trooper cosplayers showed up at my door on Halloween they'd be getting so much candy...
I'm one of those people who honors Halloween in their heart and tries to keep it all the year. It's just rough when you can't afford to decorate/give out candy to the kids and official stuff has taken place like a week earlier (do *not* get me started on the travesty that is the Trunk or Treat. Grrr!)
Most houses on my street go full ham with Halloween decorations. Huge, 20 foot tall skeletons, lights everywhere--its great. Nothing like eating Pizza, watching horror movies with friends and handing out candy. 😊
Halloween feels great these days when you got friends. Still my favourite holiday.
Time to get spooky
Tons of people show up for the HALLOWEEN PARADE TO WATCH AND BE IN !!
Although my family was Pentecostal, our parents let us celebrate Halloween fun just like anyone else. The costume stuff isn't as much fun now because of PC spoilsports. It's also a lot more gruesome than it was when I was growing up in the twentieth century.
underrated channel ong. new sub!
Thanks!
Halloween is primarily a holiday for kids. So when you grow up, it will mean less. To make it special for me, I ask off work. Taking a day of work makes any holiday special.
Maybe this year will be different, we don't know...
I really hope so
@@DAGGR also , what costume you will wear for this Halloween? I'll be l4d hunter for sure
I blame the Fuddy Duddies.
As soon as I decorated my yard a few neighbours started putting up decorations the next year.
Like it was Dark down my street now there’s a few houses with lights and decorations down the street.
Also don’t be Cheap with the Candy.
Decorations are nice but Candy is what it’s about to the trick or
Treaters.
I don’t even give out Halloween candy anymore. We’ve had little to no Trick or Treaters on my street, over the past few years, mostly due to Covid. Also, if it’s too cold 🥶 out, then people don’t bother to come out. I agree that it was better when we were kids. Plus, I have no children, to take out Trick or Treating. But I do enjoy seeing the pictures of my niece in her Halloween costumes, that my sister sends. Otherwise, no, it’s not the same. But we can still keep the memories alive, and create new ones.
I think this is very dependent on neighborhood/region. If anything, I see much more emphasis on celebrating all month long than when I was a kid. Also, a lot more public and community-wide festivities and events (for instance, just about every zoo I know goes all-out in a way that wasn't nearly as widespread a couple decades ago).
It may not perfectly match your childhood memories, but there's a ton of enthusiasm for Halloween.
why halloween feels different...now people are to lazy. adults cant be bothered to hand out candy and kids cant be bothered to leave the house. i get so fuew trick or treaters now when compared to even 10 years ago.
no more saying first
These are the same feelings your grandparents felt and their grandparents and so on. It's called getting old and not liking changes... They still happened you like it or not 😂
We had a really great turn out for trick or treating in our neighborhood.
Halloween is what you make it.
LOL! Cue the Mr. Balen music @3:59.
I think all these holidays feel different after C-vid. Too much worry about socializing and having fun now a days.
"adult halloween party" is basically a party is basically a party but with costumes, is not even like people go nuts, people can go nuts every day of the year
love the video
Thanks!
Let me summarize why:
1) You are not a kid anymore. As you get older you have more life experience and start to forget what it was to have those experiences.
2) The pandemic. ‘Nuff said. Inflation, mistrust. It changed the entire world forever, and not in a good way.
3) People are having less children and the boomers are aging out. Less children, less trick or treaters.
4) We now live in a divided world where people have de-evolved into tribalism, whether it be for political or ideological reasons. Instead of respectfully accepting our differences it’s now become an us versus them society, leading to the breakdown in the community. I can be in political camp A and still enjoy my Halloween and horror, but political camp B will say it’s our way or the highway and won’t want to associate with anyone else except in their echo chamber
(The left AND the right are both guilty of it)
5) cell phones and social media. We are more divided, apart, and depressed because of these things.
Fursuiting is a hobby
No, it's a cult
Because of no tricks,ever.
Bro I thought you were like a over 10 thousand subscriber TH-camr whatttt
Haha thanks! Maybe one day, although I don’t have enough time to make this type of video at the moment
I know trick or treating first came in the 1930s and candy did not become a thing on Halloween until after world war 2 before that Halloween was all about parties and youths did pranks and vandalism and the only thing that resembles trick or treating is Ragamuffin Day and that takes place on thanksgiving
😂 1:31 resident alien basically
You know that really reminds us that true horror isn’t werewolves or vampires or zombies witches mummies spiders ghosts aliens demons or even spooky scary skeletons… it’s decay that really scares us, something that can’t be stopped by a crucifix holy water flash light or simply saying I’m not afraid of you, it’s a natural death that comes slowly and agonizingly that no creature whether it be god or demon can escape… and Halloween is just a another victim of time.
No it’s not. As an adult you can still find ways to enjoy Halloween when grew out of trick or treating and wearing costumes. For example I have a casual Pumpkin Carving Party with my Family on putting horror movies while doing with. As for that, if no costume, I wear Halloween theme Horror Movie T Shirt or Wear All Black with Black Makeup.
My family didn't celebrate it much, so I'm indifferent about it.
Name of the music at 3:58?
For a retrospective reason…
Okay hear out, but don’t get overly-done with it now, but…
I believe Halloween doesn’t feel the same anymore because literally no sees it’s true meaning and origin.
Joy from inside out was so right
4:54 is that a caterpillar, a sawfly larva, or a beetle grub?
Everything (l mean every thing) today is dying. Sad as it is this is the only way something new can be born. Don't lose hope.
I grown up that’s why ! ☹️😞
i beg to differ
i think its from kids acting more adult and not wanting to go trick or treating
(probably from covid too all they know is probably trunk or treating and social distancing stuff) although i guess they don't know any better but it's just simple supply and demand especially because just a lot of things target kids
@@goodluckpupPartly true, but not fully. High housing mortgage rates and young couples choosing not to have kids do to the economic climate we are in right now has also contributed to it
1:18 unless you’re a fundamentalist Christian where anything and everything is evil af
So we aren't gonna talk about other religions doing this too?
I’m a devout Christian of the Southern Baptist denomination and Halloween is my favorite holiday
Actually… Halloween is technically not the only time it’s socially acceptable, as… well… For example, those conventions you showed! If other people are gathered and doing it together, then obviously, in that case at that place and point in time, it IS socially acceptable, just… maybe not by the wider world. But definitely inside that convention center for around three days.
I meant socially acceptable to go out in public dressed up. Conventions are meant for that, but people would still give you looks if you had a costume on in public any day aside from Halloween
As an Irish person, huh? Why’s that classic Irish?
I thought the potato famine was a significant event in Irish history
@@chaoticlimes yes I just didn’t understand why it’s “classic” I didn’t mean any harm I was just curious
No problem lol. I’ve seen other people joke about it so that’s why I added it
Halloween 2024 hadn't even rolled around yet, and already grocery stores are carrying eggnog and Nintendo's airing Christmas commercials. Jesus Christ has risen just to change his middle name to Fucking.
"You dont seem like a kid" 🙁
Schools and businesses aren’t allowed to celebrate any holidays anymore (it has nothing to do with people being offended). Long story short, CEO’s are too greedy to buy/store decorations so they made up this “pc” nonsense
There's always cosplay for adults.
It’s sad
For me, a lot of satanists or people who take it as a serious ritual season ruins it for me, like those people who like to make independence day, Christmas, and Thanksgiving secular. They are American holidays, not your political campaign. They are as bad as the Halloween antis of the 80s and 90s, but on the other extreme end. Oh, that and inflation has ruined everything as well as the complete decline of kids.
You freaks have been saying this since the 80s, & probably before that. Its makes Halloween more special you guys are out there tho, kinda like a rock concert few looney fundie protesters. It adds to the ambience, plus it gives you something to do. Idle hands as they say boooga booga booga 🎃
Yeah alien is the correct term 🤣
2:19 hell yeah! furries!
I blame a few things:
Technology
Laziness
People think kids are a problem when they are not
Money
Also capitalism and America ruined Samhain just like it ruined Christmas Easter Valentine’s Day etc
How come you did not mention that the Irish were Catholic and celebrated the "Eve of All Saints Day" (aka: Halloween) with family gathering with kids playing little pranks as part of the Trick or Treat.
Also, it is not out of the ordinary for two seperate Religions to have their own feast or celebration on the same day.
Hallow means Holy, for example, "... Hallow be thy Name...". Halloween means "Evening of All Saints Day." There is nothing pagan or Samhain about that. It's Christian.
Get it together. If you own a Toyota Tundra, it doesn't mean you're driving Ford pickup. Both are of the same class, yet seperate entities.
Stop saying Samhain is Halloween. They're not.
I put the sources I used for research in the description. Most sources connect Halloween to Samhain
@chaoticlimes they are wrong. Yes, both are celebrated on the same day, but one is Christian and the other Pagan. Tying them together is a common mistake by all NON-CHRISTIANS, or Christians who have zero knowledge of their history and traditions.
If Budist or Hindus have a special celebration that happens to fall on the same day of a Christian feast day, the two do not become one and the same.
I think most of it has to do with the last 4 years of drama thanks to a certain president who shall not be named..and I ain't talkin' about Biden.
Sorry to put politics into this but between this, covid and everything else going on right now, I think a lot of people weren't feeling the holiday spirit. This year however feels different for everyone, including adults. Things feel like they're finally (if not slowly) coming back to 2019 levels of normal.
I think the biggest difference is how DARK people like making Halloween now. when we were kids, it was bright colors mixed with black, smiling pumpkins, cute bats, lots of angel and fairy costumes, wholesome Halloween movies (Halloweentown, Garfield's Halloween, It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown, etc). Now? It's all wicca, gore and guts. No thanks.
Sorry, Halloween OUGHT to be scary. Otherwise, what's the point? There is nothing more insipid than a smiling pumpkin- the original idea was to create a horrific glowing totem to scare away evil spirits. The tepid Halloween you describe killed interest in the holiday through sheer boredom.