'Fuck You, 2016'
On Last Week Tonight’s last episode of 2016, a chorus of celebrities and people on the street echoed host John Oliver’s message for the end of the year: “Fuck you, 2016.” There were a litany of horrors from the year cited as justification for the grand finale—a giant statue of the numbers 2016, blown up in a slow-motion demonstrative fireball.
Over the course of the year, many of these same horrors have elicited the same response on social media, where it’s become a reflex to respond to bad news by flipping the bird to the year. David Bowie is dead? you, 2016. The Russians hacked the U.S. election? Fuck , 2016. Aleppo has fallen? FUCK YOU 2016! There is even a (“hastily put together” by its own description) called , slated to come out in March of 2017.
