Apparently, the pandemic-induced time distortion that defined 2020 didn’t get the memo about the new calendar year. Looking back, the events of 2021 turned out to be just as mind-meltingly difficult to keep track of as last year’s.But we are once again here to jog your memory about the wrong timeline we continue to live through. There’s a reason why, in the beginning of the year, people were already doing retrospectives on what went down in the first week and first hundred days of 2021. It was kinda darkly funny at first, the impossibility of keeping up with the sheer amount of timeline-breaking, unprecedented shit happening. Then it just went on, and on, and on, and stopped being funny and started messing with our grasp on reality again.
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Whether you spent 2021 still trying to process 2020 or simply did not have the capacity to clock it all in the memory bank, we’ve compiled a list of the good, the bad, the weird, and the forgettable from this year. While this isn’t a list of all of the year’s major moments (otherwise, we’d be here well into 2022), we’re sure you’ll find lots that make you want to launch into a rambling Matthew McConaughey monologue about time being a flat circle.1. Bean Dad and Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical rang in the new year as the first viral memes of 2021.
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While their energies could not have been more different, you couldn’t escape these viral characters if you were online in the first week of 2021. #BeanDad discourse — over the dad with a polarizing method for teaching his daughter how to open a can of beans — triggered Twitter into a spiral of their non-bean-related daddy issues. Meanwhile,
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