Rockefeller Center Put Up A Christmas Tree, Everyone Started Mocking It, So They Clapped Back
The Christmas spirit is slowly coming to towns and the trees will be popping up one by one everywhere in no time. The Rockefeller Center, the famous landmark in New York City, is no exception. In a Twitter post on November 14, the center announced the festive news: “The 2020 Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree has officially arrived at the Plaza.” The 75 ft spruce came from the town of Oneonta and was accompanied by a police escort.
And… the moment the crane lifted it straight, people were startled by its shabby look. In no time, the tree became a target of mockery, with some people claiming it perfectly captures the year of 2020. Jokes were rolling as if there’s no tomorrow for social media critics, leaving everyone in tears of laughter.
But nobody dares to make fun of the Christmas spirit. And on November 18, 4 days into the sea of criticism, the Rockefeller Center mic-dropped another tweet. Defending their now-famous tree, they wrote: “Wow, you all must look great right after a two-day drive, huh?” Let’s see the full clapback tweet down below and all the hilarious comments that provoked it.
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The Rockefeller Center recently announced its Christmas tree arrived at the Plaza to start the festive season
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The Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree is placed every year at the Rockefeller Center in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, United States.
Since 1997, the tree has been erected in mid-November and lit by the Mayor of New York City in a public ceremony on the Wednesday following Thanksgiving. The lighting is broadcast live on NBC’s Christmas following a live entertainment program, so you can imagine what the whole buzz is all about.
But people on social media were less than impressed
Could the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree look any worse?
2020on brand… pic.twitter.com/6K2n4bX9u7
— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) November 17, 2020
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Incredibly, the same “scarce”-looking famous Christmas Norway spruce didn’t arrive alone. It had a tiny holiday surprise inside it—a saw-whet owl, which had been travelling together with the Rockefeller tree from Oneonta, NY for three days.
The owl was taken to Ravensbeard Wildlife Center, where he is being treated and cared for at their facility. The workers at the center said that the bird hadn’t eaten or drank for three days while traveling, so they’re giving him fluids and all the mice he can eat.
And critics wouldn’t stop poking fun at the tree
So finally, the Rockefeller Center clapped back with this response
This is how the Rockefeller’s tree looked last year
And in 2018, the Plaza at Rockefeller Center was decorated with this gleaming tree
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Share on FacebookIt gets weirder though, before it got fully transported to the Rockefeller Center, they found a live, and confused saw whet owl inside of it. Thankfully the little guy has been taken to a wildlife center and will be released back into the wild after he is well again. Also, yes, his name is Rockefeller.
they don't need to cut down a damn tree. It's hard enough for owls to raise their owlets!
Load More Replies...I can’t stand the phrase ‘clapped back’ - doesn’t sound cool or edgy, sounds demented. That is all. I don’t care about any replies to this, I shan’t read them.
I HATE the term. I can't even type it. It fills me with cringe to the highest degree.
Load More Replies...I just don't get the tradition of cutting trees every year to put them on for decoration for about a month and then throw them away. Taking into account the number of people celebrating Christmas, I'd say that's a lot of trees going down.
The main tree on Old Town Square in Prague is always donated by someone who would have to cut it down anyway (because it's on a dangerous place, for example). The owner gets a reward (roughly 450 USD) and the tree that would be cut no matter what is the most important tree in the city for a few weeks.
Load More Replies...I don't think they are shaming the tree but the very poor effort of Rockefeller Center to find a decent tree. I'm no expert on Christmas trees, but even I can see that it looks like the tree had given up on life 2 years before they chopped it down.
Load More Replies...Why don't they grow a real tree and leave it there permanently? Loggers have to tear up a large area around the tree to get the crane and flatbed close to harvest it. Plus how much diesel gets burned on a 2 day road trip?
I hate the word "harvest" in relation to taking life away from a living, innocent thing.
Load More Replies...The owl should be enough to say WhyTF do we do this as a culture? Kill a tree and take away the home for birds bugs, squirrels, so we can look at it and be grateful. Isn't that the opposite?
Isn't this the same tree that they found the wee owlet in after three days? It reminds of the Charlie Brown Christmas tree.
Reminds me of the big tree on the Christmas market in Erfurt in 2018. He looked equally scruffy and people mocked the tree and the city. However, that tree became a personality (that's why I said "he"). They named him "Rupfi" ("Scruffy"), gave him his own Facebook account (https://m.facebook.com/pg/RUPFI-269747600246537/posts/?ref=page_internal&mt_nav=0) and let him report the news from the market. And "Rupfi" lives on: After the end of the season, they took seeds from his cones and planted them, and gave the wood to an artist who created a Christmas tree statue, a bench to be put up in the square, and other things. Never has any of his better-looking brothers been as popular.
Why did not critics object to this idiotic, wasteful idea? For what had to be that once alive and beautiful tree destroyed? Why not condemn human arrogance, insensitivity, and irresponsibility instead???
After Christmas each year, the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree is that to a mill and made into board lumber that is then donated to Habitat for Humanity. The wood is used to built houses. The tree is always amazing to see. Residents and visitors go to see it, some go skating in its shadow. After too much sorrow, the resilient people of New York cherish these traditions.
"does the tree have covid?) omg this made me laugh so f*****g hard
That's what others are doing, lara ..... they are commenting.
Load More Replies...Why do we need to cut down all these beautiful trees?! With all those lights, some kind of plastic or metal thing would be fine!
Usually the tree arrives and is installed while there is so much hubub going on around it that nobody notices how it looks upon arrival. By the time an army of scenic experts are through wiring branches into place and laying on a ton of decorations and lights, this tree will be just fine.
Maybe the real lesson is if you do not want to invoke the dead bs spirit to come out of people on twitter, take a photo later, after the tree has had a chance to settle or only one after its decorated. The tree looked pretty bad before decor and when you add the poor owlet in it who had gone three days without any nutrition, well...maybe you want to keep those details to yourself. I dont care if you have a Christmas tree outside a building in NYC. It isnt like any one is allowed outside to see it anyway.
To chop down a live tree for a few weeks of artificial decorated display seems the height of a disposable society's values. No thanks. Not good, no matter how many lights you put upon it. Perhaps artificial is the way to go in this day and age -- it would be perfect every year and the same every year . . . apparently just the way this modern world prefers it . . .
Look up the quote from charle brow Christmas as to what Christmas actually is. If this tree does not show that the emotional connection is what makes the holidays so great nothing will. Forget all things materiel, we are lighting up a wreath this year do to having a group of small children in a small space and wanting to keep a good distance between every one. Love, care, sharing, and effection. ( Forgiving bad spellers will help as well) that is all I have to say besides look in a mirror before you open your mouth, your souls might scare you.
To kill, or otherwise destroy, any living thing for the purpose of "showing" the emotional connection, did not ever happen, and will never happen, because if it did, the life on this planet would be very, very different; don't you think, Tom?.... disrespecting nature, destroying our planet and all life it supports, does just the opposite.
Load More Replies...This was a tradition with us in Berlin (Germany)... 2000: the thin tree was cut up a day later because it was embarrassing. Elephant food in the zoo. 2001: fir tree was ugly. Was sawed up. Elephant food in the zoo. 2002: Christmas tree broke in the middle. Was patched with metal. Broke again. Elephant food. 2003: Bald tree. Guess what. Elephant food.
The better way: no elephants in ZOOs, no cutting trees.
Load More Replies...It's okay. It is representative of how we view ourselves (twitter people) to how others view us (Rockefeller Peeps).
If you think that's bad, you should've seen the recently retired creepy as heck animatrontic Santa they would put up in Auckland NZ each year X( http://i.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/6179569/Aucklands-Santa-deemed-worlds-creepiest
It got to new York and found out trump was still pres. If only Christmas was after January 20th. Just wait6 weeks, little tree. Biden is coming. It will get better.
We have the technology. Why don't they have an artificial tree? One that can be used year after year.
Artificial trees are made of plastic, so its not really a better solution
Load More Replies...It gets weirder though, before it got fully transported to the Rockefeller Center, they found a live, and confused saw whet owl inside of it. Thankfully the little guy has been taken to a wildlife center and will be released back into the wild after he is well again. Also, yes, his name is Rockefeller.
they don't need to cut down a damn tree. It's hard enough for owls to raise their owlets!
Load More Replies...I can’t stand the phrase ‘clapped back’ - doesn’t sound cool or edgy, sounds demented. That is all. I don’t care about any replies to this, I shan’t read them.
I HATE the term. I can't even type it. It fills me with cringe to the highest degree.
Load More Replies...I just don't get the tradition of cutting trees every year to put them on for decoration for about a month and then throw them away. Taking into account the number of people celebrating Christmas, I'd say that's a lot of trees going down.
The main tree on Old Town Square in Prague is always donated by someone who would have to cut it down anyway (because it's on a dangerous place, for example). The owner gets a reward (roughly 450 USD) and the tree that would be cut no matter what is the most important tree in the city for a few weeks.
Load More Replies...I don't think they are shaming the tree but the very poor effort of Rockefeller Center to find a decent tree. I'm no expert on Christmas trees, but even I can see that it looks like the tree had given up on life 2 years before they chopped it down.
Load More Replies...Why don't they grow a real tree and leave it there permanently? Loggers have to tear up a large area around the tree to get the crane and flatbed close to harvest it. Plus how much diesel gets burned on a 2 day road trip?
I hate the word "harvest" in relation to taking life away from a living, innocent thing.
Load More Replies...The owl should be enough to say WhyTF do we do this as a culture? Kill a tree and take away the home for birds bugs, squirrels, so we can look at it and be grateful. Isn't that the opposite?
Isn't this the same tree that they found the wee owlet in after three days? It reminds of the Charlie Brown Christmas tree.
Reminds me of the big tree on the Christmas market in Erfurt in 2018. He looked equally scruffy and people mocked the tree and the city. However, that tree became a personality (that's why I said "he"). They named him "Rupfi" ("Scruffy"), gave him his own Facebook account (https://m.facebook.com/pg/RUPFI-269747600246537/posts/?ref=page_internal&mt_nav=0) and let him report the news from the market. And "Rupfi" lives on: After the end of the season, they took seeds from his cones and planted them, and gave the wood to an artist who created a Christmas tree statue, a bench to be put up in the square, and other things. Never has any of his better-looking brothers been as popular.
Why did not critics object to this idiotic, wasteful idea? For what had to be that once alive and beautiful tree destroyed? Why not condemn human arrogance, insensitivity, and irresponsibility instead???
After Christmas each year, the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree is that to a mill and made into board lumber that is then donated to Habitat for Humanity. The wood is used to built houses. The tree is always amazing to see. Residents and visitors go to see it, some go skating in its shadow. After too much sorrow, the resilient people of New York cherish these traditions.
"does the tree have covid?) omg this made me laugh so f*****g hard
That's what others are doing, lara ..... they are commenting.
Load More Replies...Why do we need to cut down all these beautiful trees?! With all those lights, some kind of plastic or metal thing would be fine!
Usually the tree arrives and is installed while there is so much hubub going on around it that nobody notices how it looks upon arrival. By the time an army of scenic experts are through wiring branches into place and laying on a ton of decorations and lights, this tree will be just fine.
Maybe the real lesson is if you do not want to invoke the dead bs spirit to come out of people on twitter, take a photo later, after the tree has had a chance to settle or only one after its decorated. The tree looked pretty bad before decor and when you add the poor owlet in it who had gone three days without any nutrition, well...maybe you want to keep those details to yourself. I dont care if you have a Christmas tree outside a building in NYC. It isnt like any one is allowed outside to see it anyway.
To chop down a live tree for a few weeks of artificial decorated display seems the height of a disposable society's values. No thanks. Not good, no matter how many lights you put upon it. Perhaps artificial is the way to go in this day and age -- it would be perfect every year and the same every year . . . apparently just the way this modern world prefers it . . .
Look up the quote from charle brow Christmas as to what Christmas actually is. If this tree does not show that the emotional connection is what makes the holidays so great nothing will. Forget all things materiel, we are lighting up a wreath this year do to having a group of small children in a small space and wanting to keep a good distance between every one. Love, care, sharing, and effection. ( Forgiving bad spellers will help as well) that is all I have to say besides look in a mirror before you open your mouth, your souls might scare you.
To kill, or otherwise destroy, any living thing for the purpose of "showing" the emotional connection, did not ever happen, and will never happen, because if it did, the life on this planet would be very, very different; don't you think, Tom?.... disrespecting nature, destroying our planet and all life it supports, does just the opposite.
Load More Replies...This was a tradition with us in Berlin (Germany)... 2000: the thin tree was cut up a day later because it was embarrassing. Elephant food in the zoo. 2001: fir tree was ugly. Was sawed up. Elephant food in the zoo. 2002: Christmas tree broke in the middle. Was patched with metal. Broke again. Elephant food. 2003: Bald tree. Guess what. Elephant food.
The better way: no elephants in ZOOs, no cutting trees.
Load More Replies...It's okay. It is representative of how we view ourselves (twitter people) to how others view us (Rockefeller Peeps).
If you think that's bad, you should've seen the recently retired creepy as heck animatrontic Santa they would put up in Auckland NZ each year X( http://i.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/6179569/Aucklands-Santa-deemed-worlds-creepiest
It got to new York and found out trump was still pres. If only Christmas was after January 20th. Just wait6 weeks, little tree. Biden is coming. It will get better.
We have the technology. Why don't they have an artificial tree? One that can be used year after year.
Artificial trees are made of plastic, so its not really a better solution
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