by Daley Wilhelm Let’s be honest: last year wasn’t the best. But 2017 had a special way of astounding me every time I glanced at the news. Astounding me in the wholly worst of ways. The list of why 2017 was a horrible, terrible, no good year is a long one, but excluding natural disasters and national embarrassments, I narrowed it down to five things that contributed to 2017’s particular brand of rankness.
1. Nazis everywhere
2. Hollywood’s sexual assault scandals
Harvey Weinstein3. YouTube is Bust
problematic YouTubers and channels Adpocalypse, LGBT+ content is a thing4. Net Neutrality
it’s no longer free almost unanimous dissent against it stolen identities5. Greedy games
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