@cstross@wandering.shop It is indeed a thing, you'll be interested to learn, or at least a meme of about 3 years's standing. The Wikipedia article was created in 2023. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_Friday It's interesting how it has (and has not) spread to non-U.S.A. parts of the FediVerse. If memory serves (I've since deleted it off the TiVo.), it was on this week's episode of QI. So it might do the rounds in the U.K. a bit more, this year. #BrownFriday