Lists like "Year in review", "Best of the year", etc. should be compiled AFTER the new year has started

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.

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.

Those lists are made so the writers have a week off between Christmas and new years.

Well fuck them! I don't get a week off just because people are prepparing themselves to take down their old calander and hang their new calander.

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.

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
- Best of 2024: The year of Luigi.
  
  No, not Luigi Mangione. I'm talking of Luigi Mario. Super Mario's brother. 2013 was Nintendos Year of Luigi. Let's include that in the best of 2024.
  
  What? The other guy said dates don't matter as a required criteria for your date based list. So, fuck it, why not, ya know?
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,

Everyone knows nothing happens between xmas and new years.

This isn't unpopular. At least not with me! I mean, 9/11 happened in September. Buuuuuuuut.........what if they did it on new years eve, at like 11:30pm??? Not only would there have been SOOOOOO much more chaos and death, but also people would look back now, and see these old websites that say "The 20 biggest moments of 2001, and 12/31 (or whatever it would be come to be known as) would be nowhere on the list. Well, turns out they published that list on like Dec 15th or whatever. What? You're saying a big event in NYC CAN'T happen on the last day of the year? Ya know Mahammad Ali used to say that he would save his real flash for the final rounds. Because if the fight goes to the judges, they seem to favor what they JUST saw, as opposed to that same performance in round 1. It's more recent in their minds, and it's at the end. Like big firework finale.

Not that I'm condoning terrorism, or saying I would have wanted any of this. I'm just saying the terrorists really limited their reach with their planning. Imagine all the chaos of 9/11, except with MILLIONS of people, from all around the world, all coming together, and standing on the streets. And THEN 9/11 happens. There would be zero chance to get emergancy vehicles in AT ALL. Roads would be completely blocked in all directions on every street for like 3 miles around times square......which I assume is close to the old WTC location. I don't know NYC street layout. But keep in mind, the first plane hit......and people were just like "Whoa......what happened? That plane just hit up there......that's crazy!" and it wasn't until the SECOND plane hit, that people realized "HOLY FUCK IT'S AN ATTACK!!! RUNNNN!!!!!!!" and now couple that in with the biggest street party of the year in the world.

And now imagine not covering that story in your list of most important moments of the year, because you jumped the gun and did the article 2 weeks ago.

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.

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.

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