This trick-or-treating meme here has been doing the rounds on the socials in Australia in the lead-up to Halloween, prompting much heated debate. 🗣️
🕸️ While some Aussies (particularly younger generations) have recently embraced trick-or-treating and elaborately covering houses and front yards with spooky decorations, other Aussies (older people mainly but not exclusively) see the old Celtic holiday that ushers the start of long nights in the Northern Hemisphere instead as a tacky and overly commercialised US cultural import that has nothing traditionally to do with Australia.
🎉 In an Aussie twist though, some suburbs now use Halloween, and the longer and warmer evenings it heralds in the Southern Hemisphere, as the perfect occasion for holding community-building street parties.
😡 Still, you have many Aussies who are vehemently opposed to anything to do with Halloween and are not afraid in airing their views.
🚨 With such polemics, it's always wise to tread carefully with Halloween-themed marketing for Australia.
And if you need someone to get you through to your Australian audience, then I'm here to help you clear away the cobwebs and fight off the demons 👻