User blog comment:DemonicsFire/2017 here we are!!!! for some/@comment-24113789-20170101001927/@comment-26018514-20170101092511

In fairness... most of the "shit year" comes from the 2016 election and other politcal bullshit that IRL could lead to another tense "countdown to midnight"...

It's fucking scary shit how aggressive the two strongest nuclear powers leaders are now... and one of them is out of his depth with a history of hasty responses, while the other makes increasingly aggressive moves against his allies.

Other reasons for the "shit year" tend to be celebrity deaths... so if you don't care about either of those things... it's not so bad.