2013: The year of ________

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...

• The year of doge

Cheers to 2014.