To celebrate reaching the end of this year, we asked our reporters to look back on 2019 and pick one thing they thought stood out from the rest of the cultural chaos and cursed images. You can find the complete selection of our choices here.
The year 2019 can be perfectly summed up with one word: yikes.
Yikes isn’t a new term, of course. But the five-letter word has recently been pulled out of relative obscurity and repurposed as the perfect reaction to the almost infinite number of unfortunate situations the past year has presented us with.
Part of its utility is that it works for everyone, regardless of generational or political affiliation — it's not just for the young and Extremely Online. Millennials and Gen Z use it, old Republicans use it, and, for some reason, Donald Trump Jr. fucking loves to use it when retweeting news to own the libs. Read more...
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