The Little Drummer Boy Challenge, styled LDBC, is an informal internet competition in the United States to avoid hearing any version of the song "The Little Drummer Boy" for the duration of the Christmas and holiday season shopping period beginning at 12:01 am on the day after Thanksgiving, and extending until December 24, Christmas Eve. The original game was created by a group of friends at a software company in Berkeley, California, in the mid-1990s. Variations include competitive elements and alternative starting and ending dates. The game has been placed in a genre referred to by one writer as "tests of obliviousness."
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