We learned a lot about our colleagues here at The Strand this year. Mainly that, as much as we are all Swifties, none of us are Maguire stans. No, seriously: we asked.
67% of our team prefers Garfield and the remaining 33% loves Holland as Spiderman; none picked Maguire. Don’t get us started on Jake Gynecologist either—you already know where this team’s loyalties lie. 58% of us are in favour of Gynecologist erasure, and the other 42% watched All Too Well.
The rest of 2021 was up for debate:
Favourite meme?
- “The bimbofication of _____” – Abi, Associate Opinions Editor
- “Material Gworl” – Rion, Associate Arts and Culture Editor
- “Couch guy” – Jiwoo, Social Media Manager
- “The dual-mood bus meme” – Roensa, Associate Copyeditor
- “Bernie and his mittens” – Sarah, News Co-Editor
- “The ____ urge to ____” – Janna, Arts and Culture Editor
- “Little lad who loves berries and cream” – Max, Editorial Assistant
Best TikTok recommendation?
- “I do not have TikTok (I’m not like other girls)” – Faith, Senior Copyeditor
- “Hello from the Hallowoods” – Kieran, Editorial Assistant
- “The entire unofficial Bridgerton Musical album” – Jiwoo
- “Sea shanties!” – Roensa
- “My Tiktok feed is just full of people skiing and hiking in better, prettier places so I guess the recommendation here is to move far far away and become a forest fairy :)” – Victoria, Stranded Editor
Best in-person moment?
- “Just getting to see my classmates in person” – Abi; Faith
- “Being able to work in a real lab!” – Kieran
- “None of my professors recognizing me on campus.” – Rion; Seavey, Illustrations Editor
- “When I got to meet some of the members of The Strand in person for a meeting!” – Jiwoo
- “The entire quad sang happy birthday to someone at the start of the year” – Max
Best movie?
Turns out most of The Strand team loves Andrew Garfield:
- “Spider-Man No Way Home!” – Abi; Adam, Web Editor
- “Tick, Tick… Boom!” – Kieran; Kelsey, Photo Editor; Victoria; Sarah
Worst reopening/lockdown plan?
- “Texas banning mask mandates….. c’mon sweaty, we need masks!!!” – Faith
- “When they wouldn’t let stores sell ‘non-essential items’” ??? – Abi
- “STAY À LA MAISON” – Seavey
- “Stage Grey coming after Stage Red” – Rion
- “Shutting down indoor dining and gyms as if that will do anything at all” – Jiwoo
- “That time Dougie tried to instate lockdown police-checks” – Sarah
Worst moment you thought was a fever dream but actually happened?
- “Jan 6 riot at the Capitol. Like wtf…” – Faith; Victoria; Sarah
- “Ford telling ppl to “stay home” in 22 diff languages (badly)” – Abi
- “The woman in Quebec who walked with her husband after curfew and her defense was he was a doggie” – Seavey
- “NFTs being a thing that exists” – Kieran
- “Canada running out of maple syrup…” – Rion
- “When the ocean was on fire” – Jiwoo
- “North Korea banning laughing for 10 days cause like???” – Janna
- “Mark Zuckerberg’s Metaverse video” – Max
Best album?
- “Happier Than Ever by Billie Eilish” – Faith
- “Planet Her by Doja Cat” – Abi
- “MONTERO by Lil Nas X” – Seavey
- “Red (Taylor’s Version) by Taylor Swift” – Rion; Roensa
- “Call Me If You Get Lost by Tyler, The Creator” – Janna
- “L.W. by King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard” – Max
