So THAT Just Happened.
Taking a quick look into the past year in whole.
So what did happen in 2015, anyways?
The Republican Takeover.
Aw, Princess Charlotte!
Windows 10 arrives, and in style.
High-flying, Amazon.
Electrifying Transport!
Gay Marriage? Yes.
AT&T
Walmart
McDonalds
What did all the cool kids buy?
Beats Solo²
Nintendo's New 3DSXL
iPhone 6S Plus
Perhaps not the wisest choices?
Hoverboard
Fitbit
Vineyard Vines Shirts
Let's see... I go to Lord and Taylor for a fancy Linen Collar Shirt and it's 50 USD, right? That's high end if you ask anyone. Now, I have a genius business plan. Let's put a pink whale on the inner collar, slap a meaningless "classic" to the item description, and double the price. Seriously, though. Is this what the world has come to?
Movies that you definitely (hopefully?) saw!
Inside Out
So what if FEELINGS had feelings? You most likely read that correctly. Take a look inside the mind of a middle-school girl who has just moved from Minnesota to San Francisco and have your own emotions played with as Inside Out provides a hilarious yet terribly touching film that you can watch almost any time, and it's even great to watch with kids. I was going to take someone on a date to this movie and she canceled and I watched it by myself and it was still really good. My points being both that it's so good that it cheered me up from being rain-checked and that it caused an emotionally stable guy to fall to tears rolling down the cheek. Plenty of advertisements were televised and spread among other mediums for this movie... to the point where I could watch ESPN, Disney Channel, go outside to walk the dog, or even just open my phone to play a game and I would see something promoting Inside Out.
Star Wars Episode VII - The Force Awakens
You could not go a day without seeing an advertisement for this movie, they were everywhere. I could go downstairs and get a Go-Gurt and it would have something Star Wars related on it, I can almost guarantee it. Despite the advertising making it so you practically were walking into the movie theatre by your television or phone telling you to, it was definitely worth seeing. I saw it once alone and once with friends and it is a movie I could definitely say I would go and see a third time. Don't look here for spoilers other than "it was phenomenal and I definitely recommend it".
Who's topping our charts in the music industry?
Adele
I could just put the word "hello" here and your brain has a 50% chance of automatically finishing the entire song at this point. School is at the point where you're more likely to be peer pressured into listening to Adele than peer pressured into doing drugs. Not that it's a bad thing, she's quite an amazing artist herself. Though she's mostly just popular because of her spectacular voice and the catchy songs that everyone will sing the chorus randomly to, she's appeared on multiple talk shows and has signed contracts with several companies that can now use her music to further push herself out there for the world, also benefitting themselves.
Justin Bieber
The most influential people of 2015?
Caitlyn Jenner
Donald Trump
That's right folks. Keeping things straight, I'm not coming out and playing mister support a presidential candidate here... but this guy seems to be everywhere. Turn on television? CAMPAIGN NEWS. Turn of television and turn around to seem my father? COMPLAINTS ABOUT TRUMP'S CAMPAIGN. He's in several states a day; he's spreading like a political wildfire.
Kanye West
As someone with abysmal self-esteem, no one has every taught me how to better love myself (and Kanye) than this guy. Apart from not being a half bad musician, he could write a book the length of the Odyssey on loving yourself. Seriously, take a look at this meme. This is, more or less, how the world sees him (or at least my teenage acquaintances). Kanye only grows more and more popular over the internet and being famous in real life definitely isn't hurting.