Another year in the books, y’all, and what a year it was. I’m sure a lot of you would rather pretend 2019 never happened given the state of the political and cultural discourse, but screw all that, because MEL churned out some killer stories, blogs and how-to’s this year, much of which I’ve painstakingly collected for you below — you know, in case you missed them.
The Most Popular Stories of the Year
The Real-Life Hollywood Hoax That Turned a Fake Bradley Cooper Epic Into a $14 Million Scam
I Was the Captain of the Team That Loses to the Globetrotters Every Night
An Oral History of LimeWire: The Little App That Changed the Music Industry Forever
The Year in LOLs
I Staked Out My Local Domino’s to See Just How Accurate Its Pizza Tracker Is
The Deepest Deep Dive of the Year
The Year in True Crime
The Perfect Irony That ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’ Film Was Also a Real-Life Scam
Inside the World of Investigators Who Know You’ve Faked Your Death
The FBI Investigator Who Went Undercover to Rescue the Bill of Rights
The Most Touching Story of the Year
.@MilesKlee spent a day at #SopranosCon and wrote a love letter to his home statehttps://t.co/ZQ11Sy4ZjM
— MEL Magazine (@WeAreMel) November 26, 2019
The Year in Culture
Guys Are Reporting Women on Tinder for the Crime of Not Being Into Them
The Worst Movie of the Year
Mötley Crüe Is Terrible, and ‘The Dirt’ Is the Biopic They Deserve
The Sexiest Stories of the Year
‘Middle America’ Porn Is on the Rise in Our Bleak Capitalist Hell
The Year, Ranked
Jeff Gross
Jeff Gross is MEL’s senior editor for social media and content marketing. His daily ICYMI column, which chronicles all things meta on the site, is the quickest way to catch up on MEL, and the funniest thing you’ll read all day. Follow him on Twitter.
