Every year as the spooky season kicks off, Green Day and their fans expect to hear the same insensitive joke that has been played over and over again.

The joke, a reference to the band's 2005 hit single "Wake Me Up When September Ends" usually reads something along the lines of, "Hey, September is ending! Time to wake up that guy from Green Day!" and this year was no different.

On October 1, fans of the American rock band are furious, as once again, the band trends on Twitter for what many are calling an ongoing "insensitive and unoriginal joke."

What fans want people to remember, is that the song was written by lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong about his father who died from esophageal cancer when the singer was 10. The Green Day frontman has called the song the "most autobiographical thing" he has ever written and finds it difficult, but therapeutic, to perform.

Armstrong has previously talked about his disdain at hearing the joke over and over. Speaking to Vulture in 2016, the singer talked about becoming the butt of people's jokes like clockwork every year.

“It’s like when Jesus was born on December 25, people go, ‘Hey it’s Christmas time,'" he said. "When the Easter Bunny comes, people go ‘Hey it’s Easter’. When September comes, people go ‘Hey it’s that guy in Green Day.'"

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Armstrong went on to say he was going to write a new song in honor of his tiresome critics. “I want to say have fun, but get a life at the same time,” he said. “I’m going to write a new song. It’s called ‘Shut the F*** Up When October Begins.'" With the band trending for the same reason this October 1st, Green Day fans have taken to Twitter to express their fury and frustration at the joke that has been haunting the band for 16 years.

"How are people not tired of making the 'wake up the dude from Green Day tomorrow' joke yet? First, it’s a dumb and just really insensitive joke, and second, it’s boring and became unoriginal the year after the song came out. Get better jokes. Y’all boring," wrote one unimpressed fan.

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Others were ready to fight. "As a long-time Green Day stan somebody had to fight the trolls in a Denny's parking lot," quipped one superfan, with another adding that they were going to call out everyone on their timeline who made jokes. "I'm not playing this year!" they said.

With fans working this hard for the band, hopefully, 2022 will be the year Armstrong doesn't have to avoid social media for the 17th year in a row.

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