"Every year around this time of year, my TikTok essentially goes full-swing into Christmas mode, with videos of dogs getting pictures with Santa, elves on shelves and new baking recipes. It's like the algorithm decorates itself, which is often very nice and wholesome. But there's always one kind of video that never fails to make its way onto my feed: videos of disappointed moms with empty stockings on Christmas - and disappointed children who had faith in their other parents to fill it."
""Here's my impression of moms every Christmas morning," the user in this video says. She proceeds to grab a very limp-looking stocking. "Babe, I feel something in here! You didn't forget!" she says while grabbing the very bottom of the stocking. She reaches into the bag and pulls out a piece of the stocking that was accidentally left in there. "It's okay, no, it's no big deal, I don't care," she says."
""To be a woman...Is to have the only empty stocking on Christmas morning," this video reads. The camera pans over the stockings on a mantle with one clearly empty, and the commenters came together for support. "I refuse. I filled the kids and mine and HIS was empty," one user wrote. "Mines been empty for so many years and my 18 year old daughter filled mine to the brim this year," wrote another."
Every holiday season TikTok fills with festive content including dogs with Santa and baking, alongside recurring videos of disappointed mothers receiving empty Christmas stockings. One viral clip shows a husband handing his wife an empty stocking while children open theirs, prompting the wife to feign indifference as she pretends to find something inside. A caption reads that being a woman is to have the only empty stocking, and viewers responded with solidarity and personal anecdotes. Commenters described years of empty stockings, adult daughters filling their mothers' stockings, and many young women reporting responsibility for filling their mothers' stockings.
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