Like every year since years were invented, it's impossible to perfectly define the last 12 months of human existence in a convenient word or two. That didn't stop writers from trying.
So here, in no particular order, is a short and mostly nonsensical list of a few of the ways we have already tried to proclaim 2013 the year of... something.
2013 is…
- The year of surveillance
- The year we learned gun reform is impossible
- The year of disappointing the liberal base, Obama 2013
- The year of the album release stunt
- The year of the doughnut
- The year of the burger, pizza, and ice-cream sandwich in Silicon Valley
- The year of quinoa
- The year of Paleo
- The year of women at the box office
- The year of Candice Swanepoel
- The year of Miley Cyrus
- The year of Miley Cyrus
- The year of Miley Cyrus
- The year of shirtless Justin Bieber
- The year of the hoax
- The year of the tragic mea-culpa
- The year of Google
- The year of Twitter
- The year of Netflix
- The year in which some music happened
- The year of the backup quarterback
- The year of linux
- The year of mature monetization, static App Store charts, and £2 supermarket chickens
- The year of social HR
- The year of retail schadenfreude
- The year of the activist investor
- The year of the short story
- The year of the unemployed worker
- The year of the visible vagina
- The year of Bulgarian protest
- The year of UFOs
- The year of power couples
- The year of doing it yourself
- The year of the selfie
- The year of the selfie
- The year of twerking, the e-cig, and the selfie
And last but not least...
Cheers to 2014.