Black Friday

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  1. Ai chan

    Ai chan Queen of Yuri, Devourer of Traps, Thrusted Witch

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    Ai-chan kept hearing about this thing. First it was on one of the episodes of Chuck, and then on some webcommerce websites. And just now Ai-chan's seeing it on Amazon.

    So what is Blacked Friday? Why is it called Blacked Friday? Did people colour the faces black on that day and then go buy stuff?
     
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  2. AliceShiki

    AliceShiki 『Ms. Tree』『Magical Girl of Love and Justice』

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    Isn't it just a Friday where people make big sales?

    My quick googling says that the origin of the term has something to do with thanksgiving, Philadelphia, and being in the red, but I didn't get the connection, and I didn't feel like reading the whole article to properly understand it~
     
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    On Wall St, where the banking gnomes work inside a giant wall with a bull on in, they mark their profits in black and losses in red. So the black is the ink of their profits.

    Friday is the glorious day before the weekend renamed for the Nordic Goddess of Spring and Beauty of Alfeim, because she most closely resembles Venus. It also comes after the Thursday of Thanksgiving where feasting and sports are played in honor of the gods and civic to remember the thanks that the Pilgrims gave when they avoided starvation, following their botched utopian experiment in communal farming.
     
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    if you aren’t American then it’s basically an event/cultural thing that business came up with to lure Americans to shit their cash on this one particular day/week after Thanksgiving Holiday
    Or I forgot if it was before

    you do realize you can google it,
     
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    Hazel00 Highland Knight | From Karsuk

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    They called it Black Friday because if it's Red Friday sounds ominous, White Friday seems not that awesome, Blue Friday doesn't match, Green Friday NO.
    i also got some insider information, that someone from the future actually go back with time machine just to change it's name to Black Friday because apparently Like Red Faction and Choose Green Faction and White Please Faction clash and cause World War VII and to stop it was only to go back and change it to another colour.

    also Ai-Chan is my goddess
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    will built holy shrine later, we need apostles
     
  6. Bielt

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    Black in Black Friday comes from a old English slang "you are in the black" which basically means you are profiting~

    So black Friday gives the idea that you are gaining more by buying in the day, cus many stores have sales on that day
     
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    Black Friday? It's that day of the year most customer service/salespeople dread.
     
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  9. Little Evil

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    It's you are in the green here...
    Red is losing money, black is losing company.

    Well, if you live in US, you could try doing that~
    Once...
     
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    its the day that normal people suddenly turn insane and run over others with their shopping carts. people get up at ungodly hours of the night/morning and wait for stores to open to rush in and get the best bargain and fight with others. it's the day when most people stay home, terrified of those crazy people, praying for the day to end.
     
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    Black friday happens on Novembers because it is usually the day when companies start making profit from any sale they make from this day on.
    Since most profits are made on December, they just need to push their November sales to increase their yearly profit.

    Hence the black friday sale.
     
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    Bielt 『Planets Eater』『The Sin of Animosity』

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    Yeah on my country we also use green to say profit~
    But apparently ages ago~
    Accountants in (england or america dunno) used red ink to note down losses and black ink to note down profits~
    So they used that slang~

    I think it's a pretty old one which most people probably doesn't even know about~
    But they used it anyway~
     
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    The replies are hilarious. Black Friday in in America is a tradition where sales happen during the Friday after Thanksgiving basically Nov 26th this year. This tradition came about becuase the day after Thanksgiving becuase the friday after Thanksgiving was considered the first day of Christmas shopping.

    It came about probably due to corporations looking to make some money and a good marketing campain, it has been the busiest shopping day of the year in the United States since 2005. This has spured another tradition called Cyber Monday the internet equivalent of Black Friday.

    TLDR, no one black faces, its called black cuase that means your not in the red(making monet instead of losing money) , its a big sale day.
     
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    It's yellow Friday here..
     
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    You must be new to novelupdates, welcome :blobpeek: Yes, Ai-chan could just google it. But Ai-chan doesn't want the answer. Ai-chan wants these guys' answers. Just look at the creative answers they're giving in order to sound funny, cringy or edgy. You won't get that from unfeeling google search anymore.
     
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    Black Friday is the day the rich recoup their loses by giving false sales
     
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    It is the best scam day as ever, and the next day many people have a black mood. The reasons? Your guess. :blobthinkingsmirk:
     
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    It’s a day for deals and madness.
     
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    Basically lots of things go on sale that day and there’s lots of deals . It marks the start of the Christmas shopping season . Also the biggest scam of the year and my least favorite day of the year because I’m dragged all around town by my parents to buy shit
     
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