Hi I'm Rachel Hampton and I'm Candice Lim and you're listening to I see

why am I in case you missed it

Sleeats Podcast about Internet Culture.

And hello, I see why am I friends, it's me.

Back from the sabbatical grave just for y'all.

I'm the ghost of Christmas past.

If you've guessed by the title of this episode,

we have introduced a new yearly tradition.

If you're anything like us,

you've probably completely forgotten

what you ate for breakfast two days ago,

let alone what happened on the internet

at the top of 2023, to give you a little refresher,

to remind you of what we all have collectively been through. We're running through our top internet moments of the year.

But before we get to that, I would actually like to take a look back at the pop culture moments of the year that have haunted, delighted, or mesmerized us.

So Candace, do you have a moment that comes to mind?

Yes, so Rachel, jump back in the time machine with me to March 2023, because the moment I am still mad about is Austin Butler losing the Oscar for Best Actor. And so let's skip to Oscar Knight.

Austin's category is being called. Angela Bassett, who just lost the Oscar to Jamie Lee Curtis

She is tightly gripping Austin's hand. She's saying baby you got this and then we hear this and the Oscar goes to Brendan Fraser.

It doesn't matter that no one likes the whale.

People love Brendan Frazier.

And I should have known that someone as young as Austin was not going to win the Oscar at 31.

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