The end of the calendar year is a time to look back on what was, to resolve to do even better moving forward... and to document your best nine Instagram photos and post them all in a grid, while humble-bragging about the total amount of likes you've received that year.
The latter phenomenon got me wondering what KQED Pop's best nine would be, so without further ado, here's what you all loved from us this year:
One way to deal with being stressed over not knowing the outcome of Election 2016: watching hours of YouTube astrologers attempting to find answers in the sky.
We're used to not batting a lash at most scandals, but this retelling of one from the early 20th century shocked half a million readers, broke all kinds of KQED records, and even got a mention from The New York Times.
Honorable mentions to a few posts that also did super well, but weren't written in 2016: