It’s hard to believe that 2023 is *almost* over.
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Because I feel like this year felt like seven seconds, let’s look at things you might have already forgotten happened in 2023…
1. First off, it’s kind of hard to believe how we only discovered that Taylor Swift and Joe Alwyn broke up in April when it feels like they’ve been dunzo for years.
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2. It seems like forever ago, but M3GAN came out in 2023.
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That doll was everywhere in January.
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And everyone was doing that dance.
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3. The Chinese spy balloon drama happened in 2023.
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4. Another weird thing this year that feels like a blur was Jill Biden kissing Kamala Harris’s husband on the lips.
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7. It seems like forever ago, but Everything Everywhere All at Once won everything at the Academy Awards as well.
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8. I pretty much completely forgot that Harry Styles won Album of the Year at this year’s Grammys.
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9. Beyoncé also became the most Grammy-awarded musician ever that night.
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10. But the real stars of the Grammys were Adele and Lizzo.
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They were in basically every camera shot.
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11. Actually, I forgot that Adele became a meme many times in 2023 for essentially doing nothing.
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14. It seems like years ago, but 2023 was also the year Rihanna announced her pregnancy at the Super Bowl.
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15. Kevin McCarthy was elected as Speaker of the House at the beginning of the year, which is funny because that didn’t last long.
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16. It’s also wild to think that we’ve only been talking about George Santos since early 2023.
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17. At the beginning of 2023, we found out Shakira allegedly discovered her ex was cheating because someone was eating her strawberry jam.
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18. This reminds me that Doja Cat wore 30,000 crystals, triggering everyone’s trypophobia.
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20. Gwyneth Paltrow won one whole dollar in her ski trial earlier this year.
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21. It feels like a bajillion years since we heard that lawyer grill her about being friends with Taylor Swift.
Gwyneth Paltrow gets interrogated about whether she’s friends with Taylor Swift during ski accident trial due to her countersuit being $1, the same amount as Taylor’s lawsuit in 2017.
— Pop Base (@PopBase) March 25, 2023
22. People lost it over Pedro Pascal’s volatile Starbucks order in 2023.
23. I feel like I’ve seen this pic of Cole Sprouse smoking on a podcast for years, but nope, it’s from this year.
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24. Those big red boots were a meme in 2023.
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25. Ariana DeBose’s rap at the BAFTAs went viral in February.
BAFTA Awards producer Nick Bullen says Ariana DeBose and her team wrote the show’s opening rap themselves, and that the backlash to the performance is “incredibly unfair.” pic.twitter.com/TwtrJ58W0p
— Pop Crave (@PopCrave) February 20, 2023
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26. Tom Brady announced his retirement in January.
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28. And lastly, it’s hard to believe that Ron DeSantis was actually the GOP frontrunner earlier this year.
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