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

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Why publish something claiming to cover the entire year if the year isn’t even over yet??

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Balthazar@lemmy.world
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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.

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Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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VonReposti@feddit.dk
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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.

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Lem Jukes@lemm.ee
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I mean, it being the slower part of the annual news cycle is probably a factor in the timing of said plowing.

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owenfromcanada@lemmy.world
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##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.

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givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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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.

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randon31415@lemmy.world
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Those lists are made so the writers have a week off between Christmas and new years.

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Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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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.

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thirdBreakfast@lemmy.world
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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

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TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works
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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:

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