Welcome to limbo mode, where you sleep in til who knows what time and wake up not knowing what day of the week it is. The week between Christmas and New Years is always so weird - should I be resting? Should I be working? Should I take a shot, it’s only Tuesday?

When I did the Dulture recap of the year last year, I’m not gonna lie, it was a fun way of realizing what I really pay attention to on the internet aka what my algorithms are full of - shoes, NBA, video games, and a sprinkling of conspiracy/dumb stories.

And so while we’re in this weird state of mind, let’s reminisce on the year that was 2024. From portals connecting the world ruined by OF girls to trying to figure out what size you are with Kanye’s $20 clothes - this year in Dulture was jam packed with all kinds of stories that I scoured the internet for…or literally just opened IG and saw that Drake was beefing with Kendrick.

Sometimes life serves it up on a silver platter for you 🤷‍♂️ 

For all my new readers who just embarked on this Friday morning journey with me, it’s like you skipped all the lectures and now you’re just taking the exam. You ever do that? Show up to the first day of class, grab the syllabus from the professor and then say see you at the final exam?

Maybe it’s just me…man I don’t miss 8AM classes in university.

I digress.

Thank you for reading this year. It means the world to me that you see my email in your inbox on Friday mornings and actually open it vs delete it, which takes even less effort to do. And I get it, I don’t always write about things you enjoy or are interested in. Did you know you could respond to the email and tell me? Or comment on the newsletter on my website - Dulture.Beehiiv.com? Now you do…

The year kicked off with Netflix announcing that they would be streaming WWE Monday Night Raw live starting in 2025 - so basically next week. And while the non-wrestling fans in the chat could care less (I personally haven’t watched an episode of Raw since Stone Cold drove a Coors Light truck to the ring), this is turning out to be a much bigger deal than it seems like on the surface.

The whole idea of subscribing to a streaming service is to just get all the content it provides at a single price, which traditionally is cheaper than paying for cable.

However, the outlier with streaming has always been sports (and I guess sports entertainment), which you usually had to pay extra for with cable. I remember having the conversation with my cable provider in 2014 and telling them I only wanted TSN (Canadian ESPN) and they said they just couldn’t give me one channel.

So I just decided to illegally stream sports.

However the hot take of the year is the fact that if streaming services are going to start making live action content a normal thing, I wouldn’t be surprised if they start chopping these alternative content streams up into sections you have to pay for JUST LIKE CABLE.

Or Netflix adds commercials like crappy Amazon Prime has already done.

Remember when Kanye launched this clothing line?

Well I’m here to update you that Yeezy.com has A LOT more than “Wet” tank tops on the site now. Ye has updated the site with sweatshirts, t shirts, sweatpants, and these long sweatshirt poncho things, that are all $30 CAD, which I assume is still all $20 USD.

You thought it was hard trying to find your size when you’re drunk browsing through Aliexpress? Try finding your size in Kanye’s clothes - I dare you: