The Ubyssey's 2024 ins and outs

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
  • LinkedIn
  • 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.