Hatocalypse 2016 Survivors' Photo Album

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This album is for 2016. Check out the 2017 album here: The Hatmas Interdimensional Breach 2017 Photo Album

As prophecy foretold, the Hatocalypse is upon us. Some of us may survive. Some may only be uncovered later under the debris of so many hats; rest assured our thoughts will be with you. Some of us have this cozy vault to enjoy, sealing us off from the millinery hazards outside.

Let's not let the dreaded hatocalypse keep us down though: let's keep another fun and silly yearbook of the events (and hats) that unfold, for those of us who survive the wave of hats to look back upon and enjoy in the future.

Keep it fun and be nice. (Everyone's going to feel self conscious posting anything here, so I suggest we leave criticism at the door.) Go for one post per person, or a very small number.

For those not in the super secret partial screenshot skills club, here's how you do it. First, here's a magic link to your public profile that's perfect for screenshotting. Now, the method:

On Windows 7 and above, you can use the built-in Snipping Tool on your profile page (just hit start and type in the name). Otherwise, you may want to just take a screenshot of your browser window with alt+print screen, paste it into MS Paint, crop out your avatar region and save it as a PNG. (GIFs and JPGs will probably come out low quality.)
On Mac, press CMD + SHIFT + 4 and then click and drag to outline your icon. When you let go of the mouse, it'll save a screenshot .png of the selection to your desktop.
On Linux... I also have no idea, someone edit this in!

You can check the leaderboards to see who has been cursed with the largest number of hats.

Folks want to know: Is it hatocalypse or hatpocalypse? (Note: Folks, in this case, is me.) — Hey I Can Chan, Dec 19, 2016 at 22:58
@HeyICanChan The ongoing hatnarok is no time for standardisation! It's the hatmageddon! There's hataclysmic devhatstation everywhere! Get under shelter! (For a serious answer I didn't even notice the difference and now I'm tempted to suggest we call it all kinds of things. :D) — doppelgreener, Dec 19, 2016 at 23:00
I do like Hatcalysm for some reason, though most of them are pretty good, I also like Hatnarok — trogdor, Dec 22, 2016 at 9:41
Hatnarok gets my vote--good call by troggy. (And he knows about bringing death and destruction!) — nitsua60, Dec 25, 2016 at 15:29
It seems specious to ask an actual meta question about hats, so I, instead, pose it here: are the guidelines for earning or receiving secrets hats ever revealed? — Hey I Can Chan, Dec 26, 2016 at 6:21
@HeyICanChan The exact circumstances are typically revealed after Winterbash by the staff. The community will usually guess most of them in the All Hats question. — doppelgreener, Dec 26, 2016 at 7:41
@HeyICanChan specifically, here's the all hats meta.SE question greener references, in case you haven't seen it. It's also got links to a chat room for conspiracy theorhaticians and a GDoc with persistent test-notes. I suggest grabbing "What's up, Doc?" before falling down that particular hole =) — nitsua60, Dec 29, 2016 at 3:25

nitsua60 · Accepted Answer · 2017-01-05 16:17:23Z

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\$\begingroup\$ [mashes upvote button harder] \$\endgroup\$
– BESW
Dec 19, 2016 at 21:01
\$\begingroup\$ @BESW aww... I'm blushing. And vomiting. Rainbows and sparkles. \$\endgroup\$
– nitsua60 Mod
Dec 19, 2016 at 21:02
\$\begingroup\$ cute!!!!!!!!!!! \$\endgroup\$
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Dec 20, 2016 at 17:11

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Community · Accepted Answer · 2020-06-16 10:22:21Z

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The March of Dark Fathers

Last year I put doctors in the Fourth Doctor's hat and scarf. This year, every day a famously awful father gets to wear Darth Vader's mask. Hover over an image to see the bad dad's name and origin; click to see him unmasked.

And please, drop by chat with suggestions for bad dads!

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SevenSidedDie · Accepted Answer · 2017-01-12 20:05:02Z

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Hats often don't fit my avatar, so the few that do look good are always a treat. This is my favourite:

And this one somehow catches my fancy too:

Some more whimsical hattery:

(I admit that these latter hats are not quite fitted to the angles of my pentagonal prism because I don't want to mess with the positioning, so I can switch back to the Where in the World? hat exactly as it was. It's really grown on me. Some do sit nicely on the 7 itself though.)

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\$\begingroup\$ this is my favorite, just the best. that symmetry really pulls it off \$\endgroup\$
– trogdor
Dec 22, 2016 at 8:54
\$\begingroup\$ I really miss my sun hat… \$\endgroup\$
– SevenSidedDie
Jan 12, 2017 at 9:21
\$\begingroup\$ you could get it back if you wanted to rip the picture of it on your avatar and use that :) it's what I did with my moon picture, I just loved it to much to let it go away when the hats were gone XD \$\endgroup\$
– trogdor
Jan 12, 2017 at 19:58
\$\begingroup\$ @trogdor Sadly, it is bigger than the image frame! Especially including the sparkles. It would be a very tiny facsimile. :( \$\endgroup\$
– SevenSidedDie
Jan 12, 2017 at 19:59
\$\begingroup\$ aw dang, if you had resolved to do it before it was gone, it would have worked :( \$\endgroup\$
– trogdor
Jan 12, 2017 at 20:00
\$\begingroup\$ @trogdor I actually saved the raw SVG data for posterity, so I could still recombine them manually. It would just make the resulting avatar taller than the existing avatar, and the site would shrink it to fit inside the image frame everywhere on the site. \$\endgroup\$
– SevenSidedDie
Jan 12, 2017 at 20:03
\$\begingroup\$ ah, I just used the snip tool thing just like how I make posts on these hat threads, so I have all the hats I put in here saved. not that I really intend to use any other than the moon one, cause it is just my favorite \$\endgroup\$
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Oblivious Sage · Accepted Answer · 2016-12-21 00:57:56Z

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Abominable hat I has been found!

I Am Your Father hat I can has moar cats?

Cutting the Cord hat Could you guys keep it down? I'm trying to order a cheeseburger.

Where in the World hat here Now I just need a magical girl...

enter image description here Grumpy, I am.

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\$\begingroup\$ You look so happy as an abominable snowman! \$\endgroup\$
– doppelgreener
Dec 19, 2016 at 21:06
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\$\begingroup\$ Lunasage and Phonesage are excellent. \$\endgroup\$
– SevenSidedDie
Dec 23, 2016 at 23:39