“Merry crisis and a happy new fear”—a pun on “Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year”—has been printed on many images. The saying is from graffiti that was painted on the Bank of Greece during the 2008 Civil Unrest in Greece, and was reported in The International Herald Tribune on November 19, 2008.
   
The 2019-2020 coronavirus pandemic and the George Floyd protests made the saying especially appropriate for 2020. “How december 2020 is going to look: (“MERRY CRISIS AND A HAPPY NEW FEAR” graffiti is shown.—ed.) was posted on Twitter by Sercan. on July 30, 2020. “How December 2020 is going to look like: Merry crisis and a Happy new FEAR” was posted on Twitter by Lakhveer Sekhon on August 1, 2020.
   
         
Wikipedia: Merry Crisis
“Merry Crisis” or “Merry Crisis and a Happy New Fear” is a slogan that appeared as graffiti in Athens during the 2008 Civil Unrest in Greece. Earlier, a picture of such graffiti appeared on the cover of Vavel Magazines’s 2007 Christmas special. The British anarchist publication Occupied London states that it was “one of the main slogans of the 2008 revolt.”
       
New York (NY) Times 
French Institute in Athens attacked
Nov. 19, 2008
ATHENS — Masked youths attacked the French Institute in Athens with firebombs on Friday, while Greek union members and university professors geared up for anti-government rallies outside Parliament.
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After two weeks of riots, a slogan spray-painted outside the Bank of Greece summed up the mood: “Merry crisis and a happy new fear.”
A version of this article appears in print on Nov. 19, 2008 in The International Herald Tribune
 
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Shoppers flee as police, youths clash in Athens
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By ELENA BECATOROS and DEREK GATOPOULOS
The Associated Press
Thursday, December 18, 2008; 4:31 PM
   
ATHENS, Greece—Masked youths set up burning barricades and threw fire bombs and chunks of marble at riot police Thursday, after a protest march erupted into new fighting that sent Christmas shoppers and panicked parents fleeing to safety.
 
Mothers snatched children from a carousel in the main square. Waiters stumbled from cafes choking on tear gas fired by police at rioters trying to burn the capital’s Christmas tree, replaced just days ago after another tree was torched.
 
After two weeks of unrelenting rioting set off by the fatal police shooting of a teenager, a slogan spray-painted outside the Bank of Greece summed up the mood as Greeks prepared for Christmas: “Merry crisis and a happy new fear.”
 
Newspapers.com
19 December 2008, York (PA) Daily Record, pg. 7A, col. 1:
‘MERRY CRISIS AND A HAPPY NEW FEAR’
(...) After two weeks of unrelenting rioting set off by the fatal police shooting of a teenager, a slogan spray painted outsife the Bank of Greece summed up the mood as Greeks prepared for Christmas: “Merry crisis and a happy new fear.”
 
Twitter
Loek Essers
@loekessers
Dit kalken Griekse jongeren op de muur: “Merry crisis and a happy new fear.”
Translated from Dutch by
This is what young Greek people chalk up on the wall: “Merry crisis and a happy new fear.”
5:10 AM · Dec 19, 2008·Twitter Web Client
 
Twitter
agz
@AlexisGZall
merry crisis & a happy new fear
3:20 AM · Jan 31, 2017·Twitter for iPhone
     
YouTube
Merry Crisis and a Happy New Fear
Dec 25, 2017
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Google Books
Title Merry Crisis and a Happy New Fear: Notebook Journal, 110 Pages (6 X 9 Inches) Blank - Funny Gift Ideas
Author Velvetsimons Publishing
Publisher Independently Published, 2020
ISBN 9798618685009
Length 110 pages
     
Twitter
Sercan.
@kelinilaciolsa
How december 2020 is going to look
(“MERRY CRISIS AND A HAPPY NEW FEAR” graffiti is shown.—ed.)
9:16 AM · Jul 30, 2020·Twitter for iPhone
 
Twitter
Lakhveer Sekhon
@LakhveerSekhon7
How December 2020 is going to look like:
Merry crisis and a Happy new FEAR
7:03 PM · Aug 1, 2020·Twitter for iPhone
 
Twitter
Jayson Hell.♡♡
@ririloriega
How December 2020 end be like:
Merry crisis and a Happy new fear.
11:43 PM · Aug 1, 2020·Twitter for Android
 
Twitter
Gaurav Mahendru
@tech2bro
This December 2020 looks like:
Merry Crisis and a Happy New Fear.
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Source: Instagram
12:27 AM · Aug 2, 2020·Twitter for iPhone
 
Facebook
Crazy World
August 2, 2020 ·
How December 2020 is going to look like
(“MERRY CRISIS AND A HAPPY NEW FEAR” graffiti is shown.—ed.)
 
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August 2, 2020 ·
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How December 2020 is going to look like
(“MERRY CRISIS AND A HAPPY NEW FEAR” graffiti is shown.—ed.)