Why publish something claiming to cover the entire year if the year isn’t even over yet??
The exact beginning, and therefor the end, of a year are arbitrary. The only thing that’s important is the distance (or time) between the two points.
So a best of 2024 list could also span from July to July? If that were the thing you would and should obviously call it something different. But I share the unpopular opinion, if the list is called best of 2024, it should only contain 2024
That’s why December comes from the Latin word Decem, meaning “ten”. The year actually starts in March. Wake up sheeple!
March = God Mars, April, May = Godess Maia, June, July = Julius Ceasar, August = Julius Ceasar Augustus, September = 7, October = 8, November = 9, December = 10, January = God Janus, February,
Because it’s a quiet news time, with not much happening in the world due to the Christmas-New Year holiday season. The “year in review” articles fill the emptiness.
Because it’s a quiet news time, with not much happening
I don’t think the Russians that are plowing up undersea cables all throughout the Baltic Sea got that memo.
I mean, it being the slower part of the annual news cycle is probably a factor in the timing of said plowing.
##Year in Review: the Best New Year’s Eve Parties
December 26, 2024
As with every year-in-review we’ve done, there were once again no New Year’s Eve parties this year.
Those lists are made so the writers have a week off between Christmas and new years.
Because once the new year starts people look forward to new things, the giday lull at the end of the year is when people are feeling nostalgic about the best year and want to relive it.
Plus it creeps up because people want to beat each other. You might read the first list, not the tenth, even if includes data from the last two weeks of the year.
They put it out when it’ll get the most clicks/views.
Same with Wrapped. I can’t read any books between the Goodreads Wrapped and the new year because I won’t get social credit for them. And this is when I have actual time to read books. /s
the fact that it comes out BEFORE Christmas too. I’d understand if it was the week before, but like a whole month is too much.
Also, great time to show this off:
My favorite is that everyone sends you a silly preview saying “we’ll have your stats soon”.
Just send one.
My friend, I have already started seeing “best X to look forward in 2025” lists. It’s just content to fill the void. They mean nothing.
Everyone knows nothing happens between xmas and new years.
Spotify at the START of December: here’s your year in review… Like, they’re only giving me 11 out of the 12 months! What the hell is this shit?
I listen moderately throughout the year, but during december, my GF runs christmas music like there’s no next year. So maybe the exclusion is my salvation.
Agreed, I always wait for the last year to check my Duolingo Year in Review. Gotta finish up those last couple days to see the big picture.
why, though? the choice of the year ending on the 31st of december is wholly made by man–nothing in nature dictates that choice.
if anything, the original calendar had february mopping up after all the other months (which is why the fewer days as well as the tacking on of the leap day there). we’ve already advanced the end of the year by an arbitrary amount of two months. what’s one more week?
unless, of course, you’re saying that the year in review does not take into account the last week of 2023. in which case, yes, you’re right.
That last two sentences of yours? That was the entire point
