OH SHIT THE ARTICLE THAT IVE BEEN WAITING FOR ALL YEAR IS OUT WHO WON 2014???????? (2011 winner: twitter, 2012 winner: knowles-throne-dashian, 2013 winner: cultural appropriation) --- A quote from last year’s bracket, appropriately titled “Who Won 2013?” With every passing year, I’m closer and closer to trashing the Who Won bracket model in exchange for Who Lost. Or What Ruined This Year for Me The Most, a Bracket of 1024. I’m no oracle, but there was definitely something in the air in December 2013, and that something was clearly trying to warn me about the following 12 months. “Don’t go,” the sassy fog would say as it whisked past my ear. But I didn’t listen. In my mind, the little annoyances of 2013 were as bad as it could get, suggesting that the only direction the new year could go was up. The thing I was complaining about this time last year: “wedding hashtags.” Wedding hashtags. I suggested a “Who Lost” bracket because of things like #Jamelcky (when a Jamal marries a Becky) and #BakesTakesDave (ask Katie Baker). That’s how good we had it a year ago. ... This year’s bracket is not a celebration. Past years’ brackets have been fun to put together, a nostalgic look at all the joys of the previous 12 months. But some of this year’s winners actively made the year worse. So many of us were forced to come to terms with many of the world’s terrible realities this year, and so must the fourth edition of this bracket. Not even a maniacal 10,000-word piece of Pulitzer-worthy end-of-year pablum can exist in blissful ignorance. This year was truly the realest, for everyone and everything.
Posted on: Wed, 31 Dec 2014 00:22:48 +0000
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