For what seems like far too long now, people have been playing up to that awful cliché that 2016 has been the worst year since time began.
In reality, yeah, it was a bit sad that quite a few celebrities died, but the way people have packaged it on Twitter for RTs it's become so unbearable and cheesy that it's okay to wish for 2017 to come a little quicker.
On a brighter note, some ridiculous and hilarious things happened this year. Just ask Welsh Tory leader Andrew Davies, who, in the aftermath of Britain's EU Referendum, had sausage, bacon and eggs on his mind, when he said "We will make breakfast a success!", instead of Brexit.
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Long before Brexit though, way back in January if you can cast your mind back that far, there was #DrummondPuddleWatch.
It was a live stream of unsuspecting Geordies having to navigate their way around a puddle in the middle of a foot path. Around 20,000 people were tuned in at any one time to watch the scenes.
At the time it became the most tweeted thing in Britain and the second most tweeted thing in the world thanks to the people at Drummond Central who'd been watching people leap, tip-toe and run through the small body of water from their office window.
A guy just placed a 'slippery when wet' sign in the Drummond puddle and it's amazing
Though people are already tipping the past 12 months as the year that'll live on as a pub quiz answer, mainly because of celebrity deaths, the question: "What year was RRS Sir David Attenborough nearly called Boaty McBoatface?", will also have the answer 2016.
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Costing a reported £200 million, the fate of the name of said ship was left in the hands of an online poll, where former BBC radio presenter James Hand suggested what would go on to become a viral phenomenon.
Despite Boaty McBoatface coming top in the poll, the final say went to NERCscience, which decided against Boaty McBoatface, and instead went with honouring the nation's grandfather, Sir David Attenborough.
Not long after the ship was named and was ready for the seas, another aquatic viral sensation began. The first video of a supposed Loch Ness Monster siting was posted.
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Over the course of the year people, people reported spotting Nessie in Scotland (obviously), as well as the Thames in London and Surrey.
It's fair to say that all the clips, rumours and debates were brushed aside once people finally came back down to Earth and realised the myth of the monster is hogwash.
Along with Nessie sightings there were also videos of Big Foot and the Abominable Snowman that got shared by the masses. Both were equally as ridiculous as the former.
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Among the whirlwinds of the last 365 days or so there were a lot of things to become popular via the means of Facebook, Twitter, Vine and Instagram that the year adopted the label of 'The Year of Viral'.
Stars of the Internet began finding themselves becoming properly famous, appearing on television and being interviewed about their social media activity.
In all honesty the list is too long to go through them all, but there were a few stand-outs. A prime example was Daniel Lara, who was "back at it again with the white Vans".
Damn Daniel
There was also 'Chewbacca Mask Lady', or 'Chewbacca Mom', who found a kid's toy so funny that her laugh became famous.
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37-year-old Texas mother Candace Payne purchased the Chewbacca mask from Kohl's and posted a video of her playing with it in May. The clip became so big that she was given $2,500 in gift cards, Star Wars toys and 10,000 reward points from the shop, as well as appearing on Good Morning America, and received $7,500 for a Memorial Day weekend visit at Disney's Hollywood Studios, $2,000 to attend the Fan Dallas Expo with Peter Mayhew and $400,000 in scholarship money from Southeastern University.
And of course there was Harambe. Now, don't get me wrong, Harambe memes and jokes are very, very old now. Posting one would kind of be like asking someone "why did the chicken cross the road?" at a house party, but at the time, he was everything to us.
On May 28, 2016, the silverback was shot dead at Cincinnati Zoo after a three-year-old boy found himself inside his enclosure.
It sparked songs, 360 degree videos, Photoshops, tattoos, mourning and heartbreak, but was probably the most popular meme of the year.
There was also the Bottle Flip Challenge, the Mannequin Challenge, Evil Kermit, Pen Pineapple Apple Pen, and 'Angry Phelps' at the Rio Olympics.
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It was a half decent year for Australia in terms of hilarity.
Just recently a man was caught on camera standing up to a kangaroo, delivering a swift right hook, after it had gotten his dog Max in a headlock.
Greig Tonkins, an elephant keeper at Taronga Western Plains Zoo in Dubbo, New South Wales, was the man in question, and after his profession was revealed his employers considered taking 'appropriate action' against him.
On a totally different note there was an Aussie bloke who gave one of the greatest live TV interviews ever, when he chased someone crashed his care into his mate's mum's fish and chip shop... in his boxers.
Daniel McConnell was the latest in a long list of Australians who have graced us with their presence on news programmes, including the kid who was defiant after hosting his very own Project X style party, the two heroes who stopped a robbery, and the two blokes who were defending their mate.
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Pokémon Go. Fucking Pokémon Go.
Exceptionally brilliant to begin with, but then a nuisance when you realise life had frozen for about a month while everyone tried catching Charizards, Pikachus and Mewtwos.
Just about everyone was enthralled by finally being able to jump inside Ash Ketchum's world, but when it got to the point when you had 27 Psyducks, 14 Drowzees and 42 Pidgeys, it got a bit same-old. Then, when word made it to Reddit that you could only capture the rare creatures in certain places, like the jungles of Guyana and coasts of Australia, there was no motivation to continue with catching 'em all.
Truth be told we could go on for ages about the ridiculous things that happened in 2016, but that'd be pretty boring.
What was your most ridiculous or hilarious moment of 2016? Let us know in the comments.
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