Mean Girls' Day / It's October 3rd

Overview

Mean Girls' Day, also referred to as It's October 3rd and Mean Girls Appreciation Day, is celebrated by fans of the 2004 film Mean Girls on October 3rd each year, during which they share memes, clips from the movie and other references. This date corresponds with the date Lindsey Lohan's character Cady tells her crush, Aaron Samuels, early in the film when he asks her what day it is.

Background

On April 30th, 2004, Mean Girls was released and featured the scene between characters Cady and Aaron mentioning the day October 3rd (shown below). On October 3rd, 2011, the day was first dubbed National Mean Girls Day in a blog post on Hunger Games site Tengaged.^[3]

Notable Development

On October 3rd, 2012, Mean Girls' Day first experienced widespread media attention when it was covered by sites like E! Online^[1] and The Wire.^[2] On October 3rd, 2014, Time^[4] magazine listed ways in which the day could be celebrated with references to the movie:

*Start planning your sexy Halloween costume. You can be a mouse, duh!
*Eat lunch in the bathroom stall by yourself, just to remind you of the hard times.
*Go to Taco Bell, even if you’re on an all-carb diet. (Make sure to stop by Barnes and Noble on your way back to work).
*Make your face smell like peppermint.
*Polish your fertility vase of the Ndebele tribe.
*Eat as many cheese fries as you want. There is no limit to how many cheese fries you can have. THE LIMIT DOES NOT EXIST.

In 2018, October 3rd fell on a Wednesday which triggered posts referencing the line "On Wednesdays we wear pink." One Twitter^[5] post by a Britney Spears fan account referencing the line gained over 5,800 likes and 1,300 retweets in a year (shown below, left). Many Twitter users reposted a common image of the scene to Twitter^[6] to celebrate on October 3rd (shown below, right)

On October 3rd, 2019, Mariah Carey uploaded a reenactment of the scene to TikTok (shown below).

Various Examples

Search Interest

External References

^[1] E! Online – Happy National Mean Girls Day Here's How To Celebrate

^[2] The Wire – How the Internet Is Celebrating National 'Mean Girls' Day

^[3] Tengaged – Happy National Mean Girls Day!

^[4] Time – Mean Girls Day

^[5] Twitter – The BritneyArmy

^[6] Twitter – Absolutablbert