A magical thing happens every time we say goodbye to the old year and hello to the new- everything we cared about from the old year dies.

It's not a physical death, and since we share so much of ourselves online that old year's stuff still lives on forever in virtual space, but according to the interwebs stuff from last year is no longer relevant and therefore "dead".

That includes viral content, top news stories and, of course, or beloved memes. Remember when you gave a crap about Left Shark for a total of two weeks back in February?

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Oh, you didn't care for that funky dancer in the foam suit? Me neither, which means you were probably more of a Pizza Rat fan.

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No love for that hungry little guy either, eh? Well then let me introduce you to Demi Lovato's basement dwelling twin sister Poot, she's far more frightening than Left Shark or Pizza Rat so you'll simply adore her!

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See In Meme-oriam 2015: A Tribute To The Memes We Lost This Year here

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People assume Tiny Tim was a trainwreck behind the scenes, but in reality he was just a ukulele loving nerd who was so obsessed with old timey music he officially earned the title 'archivist'.

However, his act was relegated to the realm of novelty from day one, his quirky uke playing and freaky falsetto singing deemed too strange for mainstream music lovers.

After his first album God Bless Tiny Tim was released his career quickly headed downhill, and ten years later he officially reached rock bottom on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson back in 1979.

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The look on Johnny's face at the end of Tiny Tim's freaky performance is priceless, and it's nice to hear Tim's normal singing voice for once, but I found his suit to be a bit too flashy...

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Carol Burnett is an amazing comedian, a vibrant host and a consummate professional, and with her at the helm The Carol Burnett Show ran along smoothly for over a decade.

Back in 1974 the show welcomed The Jackson 5 to take part in a sketch about a music class taught by a real square teacher, a sketch that did not include any mention of an earthquake.

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They say the more time you spend in Southern California the less you notice earthquakes, and judging by the way everyone just disregards the trembling they're all very familiar with the SoCal shuffle!

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It's officially 2016, which means all the old clothes you own are so last year!

Just kidding, of course, but there's nothing like starting the new year with some fresh new clothes, and there's nowhere fresher and geekier than the NeatoShop, home of thousands designs that will blow your mind!

We start the New Year by changing our calendars and writing a new date on our checks and stuff

Change, You Fool! by Boggs Nicolas

But is anyone ever really ready for a New Year?

Bring It On by Ellador

We tell ourselves that this year will be different

Doug Time by JCMaziu

And that things are going to turn around for us because we won't give up on our dreams

DREAMER by ADAM LAWLESS

It's hard to become well liked by the general public for being a proud abuser of hard drugs, since only stoners are seen as humorous or lovable, but everybody loves a drunk.

Whether the drunk in question is a famous star of stage and screen, a rock n roll icon or a witty journalist who writes drunk and edits sober, some of our favorite famous people have been shameless sots.

Humphrey Bogart played a river boat captain who couldn't live without his Gordon's Gin in The African Queen, but in real life Bogey was partial to scotch.

Hollywood royalty Richard Burton was said to drink four bottles of vodka a day, but the old pro "cut down" to three bottles a day while filming Under Milk Wood in 1972.

And we all know Hunter S. Thompson enjoyed his booze with a side of drugs, but what  about Charles Bukowski?

It was said Bukowski got his creative juices flowing by drinking two six packs of beer and a pint of Cutty Sark, because “when you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn’t have you by the throat.”

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New Year's Eve and drunken revelry go hand-in-hand, and nowadays many countries associate New Year's Eve celebrations with rampant binge drinking and people acting wild in the streets.

But to properly showcase the sloppy nature of the night you've got to catch those celebrants in the raw- uncouth, uncaring and often unable to stand.

Some of these scenes resemble the tragic and comedic tableaus found in classical paintings, as those who have chosen to ring in the new year by getting blind stinking drunk are swept up in the bakkheia of Bacchus.

See the rest of the New Year's Eve Revellers, In Pictures here

Jeopardy! is generally known for being the most prim and proper of all game shows, with the ever stoic host Alex Trebek keeping the show on course.

But sometimes contestants bring an hilariously awkward air to the show when they ring in with the Freudian slip version of an answer in the form of a question.

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Sometimes contestants bring moments of levity to the show by making moves so funny and bold they manage to make Trebek crack a smile.

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But the funniest moments tend to take place during Celebrity Jeopardy!, when certain celebs can't seem to get any questions right even though the questions really aren't that difficult at all.

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See 10 Really Incorrect "Jeopardy" Answers at mental_floss

The internet is full of advice meant to show us how to be better people, telling us how we should treat others, how to raise our families right, and what it means to be a moral person. But we should ask ourselves this- who are these mysterious advice mongers, and what's in it for them?

If you want to know why society seems to shun you, or why you seem to get no respect, it's because society is full of people who need things. They need houses built, they need food to eat, they need entertainment, they need fulfilling sexual relationships.

the moment you came into the world, you became part of a system designed purely to see to people's needs.

Meanwhile Cracked alum and author of John Dies At The End David Wong has some good stuff to say with (virtually) no ulterior motives in mind, and instead of speaking in platitudes his words of wisdom cut deep like a self-help shiv:

I want you to try something: Name five impressive things about yourself. Write them down or just shout them out loud to the room. But here's the catch -- you're not allowed to list anything you are (i.e., I'm a nice guy, I'm honest), but instead can only list things that you do (i.e., I just won a national chess tournament, I make the best chili in Massachusetts). If you found that difficult, well, this is for you...

THE WORLD ONLY CARES ABOUT WHAT IT CAN GET FROM YOU

Now advice of this type is always take it or leave it as far as I'm concerned, but David's 6 Harsh Truths That Will Make You A Better Person has over twenty million views and serves as both good advice and a really entertaining read.

Read 6 Harsh Truths That Will Make You A Better Person at Cracked  (contains NSFW language)

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Dudolf's illustrated optical puzzles were the latest in a year full of fun optical illusions going viral online, but they didn't offer people the opportunity to argue about them so they weren't the big winners of the year.

However, there were some real gems posted well before Dudolf's doodles, like the cat walking up downstairs, the empty field that's actually full of sheep, and the radical "color changing hair!" illusion.

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But not all the illusions that went viral were awesome.  There was the dumb "guys does this say Greg or Corey", the dumber "which color matches the shoes the best?" and the ultimate in viral dumbness "what color is this dress?".

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See The 7 Optical Illusions Of 2015 here

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It's easy for fans to see why anime is entertaining to watch, but for those who "don't get it" anime is mind boggling, with characters flailing around doing all kinds of weird things that don't make sense.

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If you know somebody who thinks of anime this way you're going to want to show them these Nonsensical Anime GIFs and give them little loopy reasons to REALLY dislike anime.

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The rest of us will go on loving all the laughs and strange moments you can only see in anime...I hope llama senpai will notice me...he noticed me! *drool*

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See 30 Weird Anime GIFs To Confound Your Eyeballs here

Even though they're both wildly successful science fiction franchises, the worlds of Doctor Who and Star Wars aren't likely to meet anytime soon, except maybe in a fan-made mashup.

But if the two worlds did somehow intersect there would undoubtedly be some really cool looking tech, even cooler than the Twelfth Doctor's sonic sunglasses, like this custom lightsaber fit for a Time Lord.

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Built by skilled sci-fi craftsman Ken from Hampton's Hand-Crafted Lightsabers, LLC, the sonic screwdriver body shape is based on the Eleventh Doctor's mysterious device, and as Ken notes when you start it up it "has that sonic screwdriver sound in the background of the saber hum".

That's a humdinger all right, Ken!

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Many world leaders claim they possess the inflence and ideas necessary to transform the world, but when they get elected they almost always prove they're only human after all.

But once Azerbaijani based digital artist Gunduz Aghayev turns them into Transformers they're not only ready to change the world- they're ready to conquer it!

Gunduz chooses an appropriate vehicle and adds all the right accessories to make a perfectly pointed political statement about each political leader while keeping their robo-form looking flash.

Could this be the future of political conflict? It worked for Nixon's head on Futurama!

See more World Leaders As Transformers here

They say wine is fine but liquor is quicker, and some varieties of booze are known for getting folks drunk extra fast, like White Lightning or that spicy new hangover in a bottle called Fireball.

These potent liquors pack a punch, even for regular or heavy drinkers, so what's gonna happen when grandmas start pounding shots of Fireball?

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Now, before you go grab your poor old grandma and start pouring her shots, you should watch this video by Obsev and see what happens when golden girls start hitting the sauce!

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Human hearts bleed for those poor innocent animals who are burned trying to help their humans, and human blood starts to boil when somebody posts a fake animal story online to garner sympathy or donations.

But what happens when the story is simply a harmless joke Facebookers felt was in poor taste? People get all kinds of mad anyway, because the internet.

It all started when Stephen Roseman slapped a piece of ham on his dog's face and snapped a pic, posting it to Facebook with a silly caption asking people to pray for his dog via likes and shares.

A silly pic posted by a playful dog owner quickly became a comment crapstorm simply because of what Stephen wrote, or more precisely, because people believed what he wrote.

The post got over 100,000 shares and brought the craftiest and most ham fisted commenters out of the woodwork to weigh in on the issue.

However, the real problem is that people are far too willing to believe everything they see posted online, and yet they blame the original poster for "deceiving" them when even a three-year-old can tell it's a fake.

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Everyone has been having such a good time searching for pandas and cats in among a sea of stormtroopers, black metal fans, owls and snowmen that the optical puzzles have started to roll out.

This time around a fan of finding stuff named Tracy Lynn Heightchew decided to share a photo of herself and the hundreds of young minds who attended the Junior Achievers Conference in Bloomington, Indiana back in 1978.

Why did she share this photo? Because there's a panda hidden somewhere in that sea of humanity.

Having trouble finding the panda? You can see the full sized image here