This is the toolbar for the month of December for Finch, a combo self-care/productivity/dress-up doll (actually bird) app that I use. The tree icon for the friends tab has always been a round deciduous tree; I think this change (to a snow-covered evergreen) is clearly a nod to Christmas.
It's yet another example of how often people are not given an option to opt out of Christmas, and how it is so clearly framed as universal. And the implications of that are actually deeply harmful -- essentially, that there's only one correct way to be. Put against the background of supercessionism you can see why this is an issue.
It's not about liking or disliking Christmas trees or decor, it's about sending a message that instead of a religiously and culturally diverse society, we should strive for homogeny, and that celebrating Christ's birthday is something we all should be doing -- the same message at the heart of evangelical Christianity. The same message that has brutalized Jews and indigenous people the world over for centuries. It is that deep, actually.
