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Cards Against Humanity Wins Black Friday

Cards Against Humanity have made a habit of zigging against the typical Black Friday zag 😎

Some of their past Black Friday pranks (source)…

2013 – raised prices by $5
2014 – sold $6 boxes of pasteurized bullshit
2015 – sold nothing for $5 and made $71k
2016 – asked people to pay them to dig a big hole
2017 – used donations to buy land on the US-Mexico border to stop Trump building the wall
2018 – 99% off bizarre items (eg. a golden dildo)
2019 – pitted their writers against Artificial Intelligence, sold $160k of cards
2020 – donated $250k budget to nonprofits

For Black Friday 2021, they launched a website at getfivedollars.com and explained…

Every 20 minutes, we’ll reveal something special we want for Black Friday. Give us what we want and we’ll give you $5, $100, or even $10,000!

They paid people $100 to get vaccinated, $10k for correctly guessing how many jelly beans they put in a Cadillac, $5 to give a hot dog to a mail carrier, and on and on.

As usual, their anti-Black Friday shenanigans generated a ton of publicity 📢

To take a CAH approach in your own business, consider what’s normal in your niche or industry, then think of ways you could buck that trend to stand out.

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Updated: March 7, 2025

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