The year is over and we're taking stock. What pop culture drew our eyeballs this year? Good, bad, weird, and otherwise. We're going to walk back through it all and look at it again to see what we missed or misunderstood, and what we didn't appreciate enough the first time. 'Tis the season for making lists.
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22 hours ago Dec 21, 2016, 10:49am EST
The worst pop culture of 2016
As we head into the final weeks of 2016, the inevitable nostalgia for six to 11 months ago is engulfing the pop culture universe. This week, we look back on some of the most awful, inexplicable entertainment we experienced in 2016 — the “how did... -
2 days ago Dec 20, 2016, 12:39pm EST
Crying basketball boy is my favorite YouTube video of 2016
I’m not talking about Crying Jordan, I’m talking about Crying Clifford. Clifford, as in Dennis Clifford, the Boston College basketball player who had a tough time at a press conference this year after his team lost the final game of their... -
2 days ago Dec 20, 2016, 12:24pm EST
2016 revived the first-person shooter genre
Before we dig into 2016, let’s review 2015. Let’s revisit The Verge’s list of best games of last year, and the only traditional first-person shooter that made the cut was The Taken King, an expansion to 2014’s Destiny. Fallout 4 is on here, too,... -
A week ago Dec 14, 2016, 11:42am EST
This year, Shia LaBeouf became a new kind of interactive celebrity
For the actor and artist currently known as Shia LaBeouf, 2016 was a mellow year, comparatively speaking. In the previous three years, LaBeouf plagiarized graphic novelist Daniel Clowes, got arrested during the intermission of a Broadway musical,... -
A week ago Dec 14, 2016, 10:56am EST
The weirdest pop culture of 2016
As we head into the final weeks of 2016, the inevitable nostalgia for six to 11 months ago is engulfing the pop culture universe. This week, we look back on some of the stranger things we experienced in 2016 — pop culture that made Stranger Things... -
A week ago Dec 14, 2016, 10:00am EST
The 11 best video games of 2016
We struggle to recall 12 months so crowded with great video games. Indie developers, blockbuster studios, virtual reality tinkerers, and creators who defy labels: all corners of the industry contributed to one of the strangest, most varied, and... -
A week ago Dec 13, 2016, 2:09pm EST
How One Direction stayed the world’s biggest band even after it stopped existing
One Direction has been on an indefinite “hiatus” since December 13th, 2015 — one year ago today. In the meantime most of the members have moved on to new projects: a solo recording contract here, a label imprint there… a Christopher Nolan film, a g... -
2 weeks ago Dec 7, 2016, 2:21pm EST
The pre-2016 entertainment that got us through 2016
As we head into the final weeks of 2016, the inevitable nostalgia for six to 11 months ago is kicking in across the pop culture universe. Everyone’s surveying the most significant films, books, music videos, memes, celebrity shade-offs, and what... -
2 weeks ago Dec 7, 2016, 12:01am EST
YouTube’s top videos of the year prove its only dominant community is brands
YouTube’s most-viewed video of 2016 shouldn’t surprise anyone. It’s an episode of James Corden’s wildly popular Carpool Karaoke featuring a globally beloved pop star whose most recent album broke several sales records. Adele and Corden drawing a... -
2 weeks ago Dec 6, 2016, 3:17pm EST
This countdown of 2016's best films will catch you up on the good stuff you missed
It’s December, the most wonderful time of year for supercuts, mash-ups, and the crippling realization that time is trickling through our fingers like whatever metaphor you best prefer! (Water.) But no end-of-the-year examination is complete... -
2 weeks ago Dec 5, 2016, 5:16pm EST
Tumblr trends for 2016: at least the teens had a nice year
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3 weeks ago Dec 2, 2016, 11:01am EST
DJ Earworm’s yearly mash-up of pop’s biggest hits is here
“The whole year put you in the worst mood,” The Weeknd croons to kick off DJ Earworm’s annual hit extravaganza, “The United States of Pop.” True, Abel, and thank you for noticing. The mash-up features 25 of the year’s biggest hits, including Rae...
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