Your post sounds like a description of Festivus!
That’s part of it. Perhaps the more passive-aggressive form of it. Trying to turn the holidays into an angry joke.
The idea was created by the father of one of the writers on Seinfeld. He also wrote a book called Stolen Lightning: The Social Theory of Magic.
As one reviewer noted: “(the author suggests that magic is) a means of the individual’s defense against social pressures: against the socializing force of religion,
against collective morality.”
It’s pretty easy to see how this turned into Festivus, a pseudo-holiday that rebels against religion and morality.
As such it justifies their antisocial attitudes and sneering resentment of the happiness and joy of the holidays.