What Does This Mean?
An annual joke and a real yearly video tradition marking the start of the Christmas season on November 1: singer Mariah Carey is pictured "thawing" out of ice, because her Christmas hit starts playing as soon as Halloween ends. Fans post the ice-block image with captions such as "the defrosting has begun".
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REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE
""It's midnight on November 1st, so Mariah Carey has officially defrosted.""
LORE & ORIGIN
Wikipedia says Carey released a video titled "It's Time" in 2019 that opens with her defrosting from ice, and that she has posted a new video each year since, around midnight Eastern Time on November 1. The Daily Dot traces the thaw joke on X to October 2017 and 2018, with peak popularity on November 1, 2024. In 2024 she swapped a Halloween look for a Santa-style suit and declared "It's time" (Good Morning America, November 1, 2024).
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