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Singles Awareness Day

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Overview

Singles Awareness Day (S.A.D.) is a holiday for people who are not involved in romantic relationships as an alternative to Valentine’s Day. Those celebrating the event are encouraged to wear the colors green or black to show contrast to the color red associated with Valentine’s Day.

Background

It is unclear when and by whom the holiday was invented, but the earliest known mention of the term can be found on Luceo Magazine[2] in an article posted on February 16th, 2002. In the article, the author Aimee Monique Hale proposed that Valentine’s Day should be renamed to “Singles’ Awareness Day” in celebration of singlehood.

Notable Developments

2005

There were few online discussions recognizing the Single Awarness Day as the anti-Valentine’s Day until February 15th, 2005, when Loving You Forums[5] member Pepe created a thread titled “Valentine’s Day = Singles’ Awareness Day.”

2006

On January 12th, 2006, the Singles Awareness website was launched, which declared that the holiday would fall on February 15th instead of the 14th. On September 14th, 2006, an Urban Dictionary[1] entry for Singles Awareness Day was created by user misosoupaddict, defining it as a day that “reminds those who do not have a Valentine of their singleness.”

2007

On February 13th, 2007, DeviantArtist[6] Son-Neko published a webcomic on how to survive Singles Awareness Day (shown below).



2008

On February 14th, 2008, the New York Times[3] City Room blog published an article about Singles Awareness Day and other backlashes to Valentine’s Day.

2009

On February 2nd, 2009, YouTuber Ryan Mercer uploaded a video about celebrating Singles Awareness Day as an alternative to Valentine’s Day (shown below).



2010

On January 23rd, 2010, a Facebook[7] page titled “Valentine’s Day = Singles Awareness Day” was launched, gathering upwards of 14,000 likes in the next four years.

2012.

On February 0th, 2012, YouTuber hoorahjencar uploaded a Singles Awareness Day music video, which gained over 1.4 million views and 2,200 comments in the first two years.



2013

On February 13th, 2013, Redditor R3DMUSTARD submitted an image macro of a man crying while drinking Listerine mouth wash titled “Singles Awareness Day” to the /r/funny[8] subreddit. Prior to being archived, the post garnered more than 12,700 up votes and 250 comments.



2014

On February 10th, 2014, the CherryBombComedy YouTube channel uploaded a public service announcement parody video for Singles Awareness Day (shown below). On February 13th, the video was highlighted on The Huffington Post.[9]



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