Farewell to HallowMEME.
After six years, five venues, and countless costume ideas, it is with heavy hearts that we announce the end of HallowMEME.
In HallowMEME’s early days (as a joint production by Urlesque and Know Your Meme), internet culture was still considered subculture. When memes like Keyboard Cat seeped into the mainstream, they were met with confusion, and the noble holiday of Halloween was no exception. HallowMEME began as a party where everyone would finally GET your internetty costume.
Now, internet culture IS mainstream culture, we’ll see more #PizzaRats than Village People this October 31, and it felt like a natural time for HallowMEME to come to an end.
Thank you* for being a part of HallowMEME over the years. We have truly loved creating a special place for internet snobs to get together every autumn and compliment each other’s painstakingly handmade Nicki Minaj Butt Rocket costumes. Love, Forced Meme Productions (Andrea, Kelly & Lindsey) Join us as we take a look back at HallowMEME over the years…
2009: A Night to ReMEMEber
It all began with this Urlesque & Know Your Meme costume party, held one spring night in Tribeca.
2009: The First Annual HallowMEME Party
The first-ever Halloween event included a custom Cake Wreck and Photobombing Squirrel swag. Three Wolf Moon took home the top prize. See the video.
2010: The Second Annual HallowMEME Party
Fittingly, Double Rainbows were the most popular costume in year two, held at future Ebola Doctor haunt, The Gutter.
2011: The Third Annual HallowMEME Party
Scumbag Steve served as an honorary judge in year three, and the party was overtaken by an army of Women Laughing Alone Eating Salads.
2012: The Fourth Annual HallowMEME Party
Grace Helbig hosted the costume contest in our first year at the Bell House, complete with Gangnam Style dance-off hosted by the Gregory Brothers, and Queen of HallowMEME Lauren Thompson brought down the house with her Honey Boo-Boo outfit.
2013: The Fifth Annual HallowMEME Party
Debbie Saslaw’s killer trailer for HallowMEME Five says it all. The year’s winner, a high-concept Ryan Gosling Won’t Eat His Cereal, became an instant classic.
2014: The Sixth Annual HallowMEME Party
HallowMEME went bicoastal last year, bringing the party to LA for the first time ever, thanks to West coast co-producers Rae Votta and Ben Stein. Oscar Selfie Ellen and friends made it another memorable year in NYC.
* a VERY special thank you to everyone who made HallowMEME magic with us from 2009 - 2014: Jeffrey, Dan, Debbie, Kelly, Kenyatta, Molly, Greg, Ellie, Jamie, Olivia, Stephen, Rae, Ben, Brad, Don, Chris, both Amandas, Nick, Lauren, Grace, Jake, and Ryan.
