Whamageddon is a game played during the 24 days before Christmas in which players try to go from 1 December to the end of Christmas Eve, 24 December, without hearing the record Last Christmas by the British pop duo Wham!. It is based on the Little Drummer Boy Challenge from the mid-1990s. If a player hears the record between those dates, they are out of the game and must post #Whamageddon on social media to show they have lost; hearing other recordings of Last Christmas does not count as a loss. Whamageddon is described as a survival game, as opposed to a battle royale game. Deliberately forcing others to lose by playing the song in their presence or sending it to them, in the manner of rickrolling, is strongly discouraged although it is not against the rules.
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Origin YearWikipedia infobox (Whamageddon): years='2010–present' (exact) Sport
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1. Whamageddon (Wikipedia)
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if the player hears the record between those days, they are out of the game
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