A memorial day 'Pineapple Day' that began to be joked and became globally recognized


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In recent years, due to excessive commercialism, the movement 'Let's make an anniversary to sell a specific thing!' Is heating up, and every day is some kind of anniversary . June 27 is being recognized internationally as 'Pineapple Day', which seems to be an anniversary unrelated to commercialism that began with casual 'joke'.

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Pineapple Day is an anniversary that began in 2011 with Firebase, the development platform for mobile and web applications. Firebase will be acquired by Google in 2014, but in 2011 there were only two employees, only founders James Tamprin and Andrew Lee. On June 27, 2011, Andrew suddenly got caught up with a fierce desire to eat pineapple, and bought a whole pineapple and brought it to work.


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Andrew put the pineapple on his desk and told James, who was on the work day, 'Today's 'Pineapple Day', but you didn't bring me a pineapple?' However, James argued, 'Aren't you sure?' In response, Andrew registered as 'Let's bring Pineapple Day to Company' on June 27 of his Google Calendar so that 'Pineapple Day' will be displayed repeatedly every year. It seems to have set it. From Andrew's tweet posted that night, you can feel the indignation to the low recognition rate of 'Pineapple Day'.

'It's the lowest Pineapple Day. No one else has brought me to the company.'




The following year, June 27, 2012, Andrew seems to have completely forgotten 'Pineapple Day'. However, when I went to work, the new recruit Michael's desk had a large, fresh pineapple.


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For Andrew and James who are puzzled as 'why pineapple is ...', Michael wrote 'Pinepine day: Let's bring pineapple to company' in the calendar .... You Did they bring a pineapple? '

With this one, Andrew decides June 27 to be the Firebase anniversary. 'Pineapple Day' is supposed to be a great anniversary just like the first day, independence day, and April Fools Day.

A commemorative photo of 'Pineapple Day' held at Firebase since 2013 is left. The photo of 2013 is below.



Some employees celebrate 'Pineapple Day' with 'Pineapple Orange Sushi'.




On the 'Pineapple Day' in 2014, a competition for the pineapples brought by each party was held.




Not a tape but a pineapple sword.




Since Firebase was acquired by Google in October 2014, 2015 Pineapple Day was celebrated on Google. Here's how it looks, with Pineapple Man in the center, and you can see on Google that the Pineapple Day culture has been passed down.



In 2016, Google's European and Canadian employees also joined to celebrate the Pineapple Day.



Some creative employees make holes in pineapples and make lanterns.




In 2017, James introduced 'Pineapple Day' as Firebase's corporate culture. In the following movie, you can see James explaining the history of Pineapple Day.

#MeetFirebase with James Tamplin, co-founder of Firebase-YouTube


On the day of Pineapple in 2017, a pineapple balloon larger than humans was placed. The image below shows a part of a pineapple balloon behind a person.



In 2018, a hidden command appeared in Firebase: 'window.guessWhatTodayIs =' byptwd '(window. What day is today =' Let's bring a pineapple to the company ').




The announcement of the 2019 Firebase Summit was appealing to pineapples.




According to Andrew, 'Pineapple Day' in 2015 has become a boom on SNS, and as a result, many websites registering anniversary dates have become aware of 'Pineapple Day'. Furthermore, in Japan, well-known del Monte in ketchup and Dole, a major seller of fruits and vegetables such as bananas and pineapples, participate in 'Pineapple Day'. Pineapple day awareness is gradually increasing.






'I hope you will take part in this global event, Pineapple Day, and help bring the love of pineapple to all 7.5 billion people on earth.'

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