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It has pagan origins from the Celtics druids who chose the holy plant or holly which has the crimson red berry against the green backdrop, which symbolizes man coming from nature. The berry represents the blood of man from nature, the green leaves. Christmas was celebrated as a celestial event by peoples across the globe and time.

It comes from the Celtic people who used to decorate with red and green holly - holly was supposed to keep things beautiful during the winter and signify the coming spring/new life. The first recorded representation of using the color scheme was in a 14th century church where the partitions were painted red and green around Christmas time.

But then, the guy who Coca-Cola hired to drew Santa took the red and ran with it. He's actually the reason Santa is depicted the way he is (jolly, big man with red suit and white hair/beard). Before that, he was not as big and his attire varied in color.

Edit to add: some people are really mad that I was incorrect about Coca Cola pioneering the red color lol I went on a deep dive about Santa because I have nothing better to do today and the red color of the suit was cemented in this order:

-sometimes being portrayed in red or red accents in historic images -> Twas the Night Before Christmas poem in 1823 -> Nast took that depiction and solidified it after a few different iterations (including a miniature Santa) -> Coca Cola hired Sondblum and marketed the ever living shit out of this image and it stuck with pop culture.

Santa is an amalgamation of three different European mythological figures/saints and stemmed from winter feast traditions and originally was robed in white (with red accents), blue, green or tan, with red becoming more popular in 17-1800s.

If you want more facts and nuance, I suggest looking further than Wikipedia and doing a deep dive yourself. His ancient self from pre-Chrsitian eras is actually a neat and interesting figure.

Because it made misinformation or poorly received videos seem better than they are. without a dislike ratio you can't really tell how well it was received by the viewers, only how many positive responses it has, much like other social media platforms.

Yesssssssssir. That’s where the red/white color scheme originated, they’re also the “presents under the tree”, commonly found under firns and wintergreens. The shaman or saint who we’ve generalized as “Santa claus” would feed them to his reindeer to neutralize the toxins through their piss, then while drinking it it seem like they began to fly as he gets higher. Not to mention the “elves” that he’d meet during this intoxication, who’d give him metaphorical “gifts” to bring back to whoever it was that he was helping. They were witch-doctors after all, and they essentially heal mental health issues by asking someone what was wrong, and then tripping about it before coming back and telling them what they thought they should do. Then they ride off into the snowy night on a sled pulled by reindeer, which may also look like it’s flying in the dead of night while it’s snowing on the oh-so-magical Winter Solstice celebration and the locals are loaded up on wine and ale. Santa is real baby, just not in the way we’ve been taught.

Of course there are a few problems with telling people you know what’s best for them, including the growth of organized religion, but hey now you know where we get some of our Christmas symbolism :)

Oh snap, that's so cool! Thanks, friend

Off Amanita muscaria?

Government propaganda videos were getting ratio'd into oblivion and this didn't look very nice so they asked their partner Youtube to do something about it and they obliged happily.

Plus cardinals, I don’t know if it’s everywhere but cardinals are kind of a winter symbol where I live

This isn't an explanation, so I can't post it as a top-level comment, so I'm going to borrow yours

> It still calculates them

This is true, and there actually exist extensions for both Firefox and Chrome (and other chromium-based browsers) that return the dislike counters. If anyone reads this and happens to want the dislikes back, go looking for an extension called "return youtube dislikes"

Basically, youtube got tired of their rewinds being utterly shit upon because they are just terrible. But they used other creators who got shit on by their fan base as excuses to remove it. Mostly content that was good for advertising because of being clickbait or similar.

You might find this interesting 🤓 https://youtu.be/h6fcK_fRYaI

True.

So, my ELI5 answer is, many reincarnation religions hold that you won't always be reborn as a hunan. So the explanation could be that the increase in human population is an indicator of the continual improvement of the souls as they become humans.

It could also be an indicator of fewer and fewer people reaching Nirvana and ending the reincarnation cycle.

It just comes down to what do you want to believe? In truth, if you want to belive in reincarnation, in one form of another, just make up whatever explanation satisfies your intellectuals needs.

Also getting high as shit

It still calculates them, and I think it can affect them in the algorithm, but they don't show it because of how common it was for a group of fans or upset users for one reason or another would invade someone's channel and dislike en mass to make the ration of likes to unlikes look bad. It was more accurate to show how many liked a video than all of those that may dislike it as it could include a lot of people that hate that type of content and went into the channel to dislike bomb, or people that didn't even watch the video.

coz there are plenty of species who's population is decreasing, increasing and that has nothing to do with incarnation........ We have made earth such a facilitative planet for humans in every way, meanwhile some species completely lost their habitats, white rhinos just last week went extinct if you have read......

I don't know if i strongly believe in incarnation or not but, hinduism stats that, just like a drop of water gets splashed and separated from ocean for a while, our souls are the same.

We have departed from the "brahman", the single eternal consciousness like ocean of water, and our souls are on a journey to find its way back, it will keep taking birth on planet untill we figure out how to merge with the brahman. Heaven and hell are the same place we live in, we chose what to make out of it.

There are ways given in the sacred texts. Which honestly just teachings to lead a life that in an ideal heaven will be.

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Most Christmas traditions are based in Pagan roots. Yule logs, holly, mistle toe, feasts, winter solstice... nothing to do with jc, and everything to do with super old school traditions.,

Quality. In the Iron Age, which we have just exited but its not yet the next Golden Age, the quality of rhe human soul is poorer.

Also, reincarnation takes into account animals, extra terrestrials and other dimensional beings.

The conservation of souls is not one to one.

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This is new concept. Please talk more about this. Love the thought process.

I knew someone who believed in reincarnation. She believed she was an old soul, reincarnated many times because she kept messing up. Which means there must be new souls too.

It doesn’t hurt anyone to have a discussion

Why in the world would you try to apply reason to a religious belief?

There are no religions that stand up to even the most cursory application of reason.