We've got the ins AND the outs.
Iman Janmohamed / The Ubyssey
I hate to break this to you, but it's 2024 now. That means all the things you pretended to like last year are out and a whole bunch of new things are in. We at Ubyssey humour put together a list of ins and outs for this year so you can get your bearings.
Ins
- Bearings
- Y
- Limited edition tumblers
- Extra day
- Actually watching the Oscars movies
- Seasonal Affective Disorder
- Being a chef
- Recognizing the technical mastery of Riverdale
- Queer yearning
- Green card marriages
- Bananagrams
- Being snobby about doing connections on Only Connect before New York Times stole it
- Using Goodreads as social media
- Women who stink
- MLAs
- Passive income (for real this time)
- Sea monsters aggroculture
- Knitting
- Overcomplicated rebrands
- Bacon puns
- Bus strikes
- Gregorian chanting
- Kilts
- Freestanding whiteboards
- Bánh mì
- Taylor
- The Queen (comeback)
- The Kwisatz Haderach
- Chai powder
- Cheese
- Grandmas
- UBC Aquatic Centre
- December
Outs
- The orb
- X
- Kendall Roy business cosplay
- The Academy
- Minions
- Wage theft
- Nexus card marriages
- Scrabble
- YouTuber meetups
- TransLink not paying their workers
- Evangelos Photography
- Austin Butler's hair
- Men who stink
- Hermetically sealed computer science classrooms
- Forgetting your laptop in your tutorial room and having to come back
- Nature and society dualism
- MPs
- Bucket hats
- TA romances
- The possibility of a blue chip move
- Bisexual lighting
- Bánh mì
- Flags
- Lin-Manuel Miranda
- The Duke of Liechtenstein
- The number 3
- Mullets
- Timothée Chalamet singing
- Streaming
- Cops (the)
- Crochet
- Whales
- Hot chocolate powder
- Sleep
- Hyperrealistic cakes
- Subsistence farming
- May
Anya Anber Ameen, Jocelyn Baker, Nathan Bawaan, Corwin Davidson, Tova Gaster, Iman Janmohamed, Elita Menezes, Anabella McElroy and Sidney Shaw contributed to this piece.