\n\nThis year also featured a few secret hats which were awarded multiple times. Many of you were able to find them and wear them. The top 2 hats that were awarded were the Still Fresh hat (awarded to over 203K people) and the Retro Fan hat (awarded over 170K times). The first hat to be awarded during Winter Bash was the Still Fresh hat which many of you received. Next was the Retro Fan hat which was awarded to \u003Ca href=\"https://stackoverflow.com/users/1074998/%E6%9E%97%E6%9E%9C%E7%9A%9E\">林果皞\u003C/a>, \u003Ca href=\"https://stackoverflow.com/users/1366937/perdi-estaquel\">Perdi Estaquel\u003C/a>, and \u003Ca href=\"https://stackoverflow.com/users/1702731/artur-czyzewski\">Artur Czyżewski\u003C/a> at the same time as soon as Winter Bash launched! Third was the Identification Division hat which \u003Ca href=\"https://russian.stackexchange.com/users/967/matthewmartin\">MatthewMartin\u003C/a> won 2 seconds after Winter Bash began.\n\nThe hat that was least awarded was the Red Baron hat - only 13 people earned it so if you won it, congratulations!\n\nNow I'd like to share some of the hats that we found across the network that brought a smile to our faces.\n\n\u003Cimg class=\"alignnone wp-image-9598 size-medium\" src=\"https://stackoverflow.blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2018-12-21-at-5.28.02-AM-217x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"217\" height=\"300\" /> \u003Cimg class=\"alignnone wp-image-9599 size-medium\" src=\"https://stackoverflow.blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2018-12-21-at-5.31.27-AM-223x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"223\" height=\"300\" /> \u003Cimg class=\"alignnone wp-image-9604 size-medium\" src=\"https://stackoverflow.blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2018-12-21-at-5.42.15-AM-1-225x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" />\u003Cimg class=\"alignnone wp-image-9601 size-medium\" src=\"https://stackoverflow.blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2018-12-21-at-5.33.57-AM-226x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"226\" height=\"300\" />\u003Cimg class=\"alignnone wp-image-9600 size-medium\" src=\"https://stackoverflow.blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2018-12-21-at-5.31.48-AM-225x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" />\u003Cimg class=\"alignnone wp-image-9597 size-medium\" src=\"https://stackoverflow.blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2018-12-21-at-5.25.09-AM-222x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"222\" height=\"300\" />\n\n\u003Cimg class=\"alignnone wp-image-9605 size-medium\" src=\"https://stackoverflow.blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2018-12-21-at-5.37.42-AM-195x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" />\u003Cimg class=\"alignnone wp-image-9602 size-medium\" src=\"https://stackoverflow.blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2018-12-21-at-5.34.14-AM-230x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"300\" />\n\nWe also have some fabulous sweater designs to share. Check these out!\n\n\u003Cimg class=\"alignnone wp-image-9606 size-large\" src=\"https://stackoverflow.blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2018-12-21-at-5.43.41-AM-1200x447.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"381\" /> \u003Cimg class=\"alignnone wp-image-9607 size-large\" src=\"https://stackoverflow.blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2018-12-21-at-5.44.42-AM-1200x448.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"382\" /> \u003Cimg class=\"alignnone wp-image-9608 size-full\" src=\"https://stackoverflow.blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/sweater1-e1546450475685.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"371\" /> \u003Cimg class=\"alignnone wp-image-9609 size-full\" src=\"https://stackoverflow.blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/sweater2-e1546450488523.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"371\" />\n\n\u003Cimg class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-9618\" src=\"https://stackoverflow.blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2018-12-21-at-5.40.36-AM-1200x442.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"377\" />\u003Cimg class=\"alignnone wp-image-9610 size-full\" src=\"https://stackoverflow.blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/sweater3-e1546450500974.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"371\" /> \u003Cimg class=\"alignnone wp-image-9611 size-full\" src=\"https://stackoverflow.blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/WorldBuilding-e1546450512947.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"371\" /> \u003Cimg class=\"alignnone wp-image-9612 size-large\" src=\"https://stackoverflow.blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2018-12-21-at-5.35.40-AM-1200x509.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"434\" />\n\nAnd if those were not enough, here's two more from our overachievers!\n\n\u003Cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9615\" src=\"https://stackoverflow.blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Bugs.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1190\" height=\"442\" />\n\n\u003Cimg class=\"alignnone wp-image-9614 size-full\" src=\"https://stackoverflow.blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/RickRolled.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"595\" height=\"221\" />\n\nIt has been a wonderful 2018 and we look forward to what 2019 may bring for all of us. Thank you all for your enthusiasm participation, and support.\n\nOut of curiosity, which hats did you like the best this year?\n\n\u003Chr />\n\nUpdate: Here's a couple of screenshots of stats that may interest you:\n\n\u003Cimg class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-9625\" src=\"https://stackoverflow.blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-01-04-at-10.22.28-AM-870x675.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"870\" height=\"675\" />\n\n\u003Cimg class=\"alignnone wp-image-9627 \" src=\"https://stackoverflow.blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-01-04-at-10.27.07-AM-e1546620751325.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"876\" height=\"775\" />\n\n ","html","2019-01-04T11:15:53.000Z",{"current":256},"adios-to-winter-bash-2018",[258,266,271,276,281],{"_createdAt":259,"_id":260,"_rev":261,"_type":262,"_updatedAt":259,"slug":263,"title":265},"2023-05-23T16:43:21Z","wp-tagcat-announcements","9HpbCsT2tq0xwozQfkc4ih","blogTag",{"current":264},"announcements","Announcements",{"_createdAt":259,"_id":267,"_rev":261,"_type":262,"_updatedAt":259,"slug":268,"title":270},"wp-tagcat-community",{"current":269},"community","Community",{"_createdAt":259,"_id":272,"_rev":261,"_type":262,"_updatedAt":259,"slug":273,"title":275},"wp-tagcat-stackexchange",{"current":274},"stackexchange","Stackexchange",{"_createdAt":259,"_id":277,"_rev":261,"_type":262,"_updatedAt":259,"slug":278,"title":280},"wp-tagcat-stackoverflow",{"current":279},"stackoverflow","Stackoverflow",{"_createdAt":259,"_id":282,"_rev":261,"_type":262,"_updatedAt":259,"slug":283,"title":285},"wp-tagcat-winter-bash",{"current":284},"winter-bash","winter bash","Adios to Winter Bash 2018",[288,294,300,306],{"_id":289,"publishedAt":290,"slug":291,"sponsored":12,"title":293},"65472515-0b62-40d1-8b79-a62bdd2f508a","2025-08-25T16:00:00.000Z",{"_type":10,"current":292},"making-continuous-learning-work-at-work","Making continuous learning work at work",{"_id":295,"publishedAt":296,"slug":297,"sponsored":12,"title":299},"1b0bdf8c-5558-4631-80ca-40cb8e54b571","2025-08-21T14:00:25.054Z",{"_type":10,"current":298},"research-roadmap-update-august-2025","Research roadmap update, August 2025",{"_id":301,"publishedAt":302,"slug":303,"sponsored":12,"title":305},"5ff6f77f-c459-4080-b0fa-4091583af1ac","2025-08-20T14:00:00.000Z",{"_type":10,"current":304},"documents-the-architect-s-programming-language","Documents: The architect’s programming language",{"_id":16,"publishedAt":17,"slug":307,"sponsored":12,"title":20},{"_type":10,"current":19},{"count":309,"lastTimestamp":310},23,"2023-05-25T09:46:41Z",["Reactive",312],{"$sarticleModal":250},["Set"],["ShallowReactive",315],{"sanity-WhQtN35ZQ5OOF-1-a4BdiQdJb8TeEgF0YVrea7bheco":-1,"sanity-comment-wp-post-9594-1756233778064":-1},"/2019/01/04/adios-to-winter-bash-2018/?cb=1"]