Farewell To ... is an end-of-decade series that explores some of the biggest cultural trends of the last 10 years. HuffPosts culture team says bye to the era of one queen of hip-hop, so long to lily white and mostly male literary institutions, R.I.P. to the movie star and more.

For better and oftentimes, worse during the last decade, lists were everywhere.

We were told which movies were best, and which albums were worst. We learned what every woman should stop doing and what every woman must own and why we werent married. We laughed at photos of dogs and cats and teacup pigs and otters holding hands. We shared the 37 things that every native New Yorker knows, and the 65 things everyone who grew up on a farm understands, and the 21 tweets every new parent has to see, and the 59 books every man needs to read, and the 475 photographs that will save you if youre on deaths door. We watched in horror as lists grew longer: of assaults, of accusers, of attempted comebacks and careers cut short.

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The dominance of the listicle reflects some truths about the media climate over the last 10 years: the rise of digital publishers, the obsession with and dependence on (to publishers own detriment) big tech companies like Facebook and Twitter and Google, the short attention spans inherent to the online age, and the constant stream of new content which is near-impossible to keep up with in any meaningful way.

BuzzFeed, which launched in 2006, but really found its footing during the 2010s, cemented the listicle as a format which could be refilled over and over and over and over again. As Amanda Mull put it for The Atlantic , The internet can now be more accurately described as a series of lists, enumerating everything from the United States worst airports to the most beloved grocery stores , citing their utility as a bulwark against the internets constant information overload.

When discussing how to commemorate the end of the decade, it felt like there was almost too much to tackle. After overloading ourselves with information and then in turn overloading our readers with information, where would we even begin? So we decided to return to old faithful: the listicle. Below is a noncomprehensive tribute to and inherent critique of a decade filled with lists.

Dont worry, youll totally understand it just as long as you own 13 things and grew up in the suburbs and have a dog but love cats.

Lists That Told Us (Mostly Women) What To Do

The listicle format and of course, the dreaded photo gallery provided the perfect template for digital magazines and news organizations to guide us into a supposedly better life. Whether you needed help finding a man, or understanding why youre still single, everybody and their mama seemed to be doling out advice to anyone, especially women, who didnt ask for it. And then, there were also lists that actually did help us out when we needed it like what to say to some of the most dreaded questions in an interview process and what to do when youre bored (BuzzFeed has that genre on lock, with so, so many iterations). In retrospect, wasnt so much of the internet experience in the 2010s rooted in wasting time while simultaneously trying to figure out how to fix your life? Welp, theres a list for that.

23 Things Every Woman Should Stop Doing

Why Youre Not Married

16 Places To Meet Single Guys For The Women Sick Of Online Dating

54 Things Everyone Needs To Know How To Do

18 Things To Do When Youre Bored But Are Tired Of Scrolling Through Your Phone

19 Things to Try When You Cant Sleep (Better Than Staring at the Clock)

22 Things Every Woman Needs

Lists That Attempted To Correct Erasure

The 2010s were, good or bad, the decade where wokeness became the major parlance of the culture. Which is to say, more than ever, mainstream cultural conversations were focusing in on calling out injustice, amplifying the voices of marginalized people and pointing out the pervading inequalities in society. A lot of lists during the decade did this in poignant, irreverent and satirical ways. Whether it was pointing out tone-deaf commercials or satirically listing stuff that scares Black people, these lists helped shine a light on experiences and voices that had, up until then, otherwise gone unnoticed or unexplored in mainstream media.

The 150 Worst Albums Made By Men

Stuff That Scares Black People, Ranked

Reasons You Were Paid Less Than A Male Coworker, Ranked

9 Shockingly Tone-Deaf Ads That Should Have Never Happened

These Are The Things Men Say To Women On The Street

4 Questions About Hair That Black Girls Are Tired Of Answering

23 Things Women Are Tired Of Hearing

21 Racial Microaggressions You Hear On A Daily Basis

Lists That Helped Us Process A 24/7 News Cycle

The 24-hour news cycle began with the proliferation of cable in the 1980s, but only in this decade did it leave us feeling like Wile E. Coyote chasing the Road Runner. Keeping up with the never-ending content wheel was nearly impossible. The internet became the media industrys fulcrum, which meant news was no longer dependent on broadcast schedules or a newspapers next edition. Scandals that once took a week to unfold now zip by in less than a day. Journalists turned to lists as a way to recap events that never seemed to stop: Donald Trumps lies, celebrities clapbacks, new product launches. Readers could catch up on what theyd missed, and newsrooms could capitalize on traffic generated form audiences too strapped to follow along in real time.

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14 Mass Shootings, 14 Speeches: How Obama Has Responded

21 Times Cops Werent Held Accountable For The Death Of Black Victims

14 Times Celebrities Shut Down Body Shamers

32 Moments That Made The Decade

The 100 Greatest Innovations Of 2018

17 Times Fox News Hosts Criticized Donald Trump