We at Ubyssey humour think you should believe everything you read, so what better way to take advantage of that than to put our arbitrary takes (hot, cold, lukewarm) on our website. That's right, folks, this is our 2026 ins and outs, so buckle up and get down with it or fuck right off.
Ins:
- Jujuing on that beat
- Canadian government-funded shows
- Disco rap
- The benefit of the doubt
- 2016
- Office hours
- “Never Be Like You” by Flume
- Facebook Marketplace
- Ke$ha-level messiness
- Fun umbrellas
- Basic literacy
- Getting ghosted by IKEA
- Harry Styles
- Vodka slimes
- Duct tape crafts (revive duct tape wallets)
- Oxford comma
- Donating your body to science
- Morbid workplace conversations
- Print media
- Enforcing the Air Passenger Protection Regulations
- Pentameter
- Divorce
- Engineering
- Coming out videos
- The tangible
- Buchanan Tower
- Contributing thoughtfully to discussion boards on Canvas
- Mannequin challenge
- YOLO
- Watching Vine compilations on YouTube
Outs:
- PANTONE 11-4201 Cloud Dancer
- Yearning
- Snapchat
- Gmail notifications
- Carrying an umbrella instead of feeling the rain on your skin
- Being the smartest person in the room
- AI slop
- Squishmallows
- Cardboard
- Fake grass and/or turf lawns
- Spotify Wrapped
- Book-to-film adaptations (doesn’t anyone have any original ideas anymore?)
- SkyTrain to UBC
- Spoilers
- Doing the most (stop writing a 700-word essay for your weekly discussion post)
- Giving zero energy
- The Ubyssey’s Humour Editor
- Media literacy
- Declarations and proclamations
- Critical thinking
- Forums
- Piano
- Strava
- Telling the truth
- Reboots
- Prom, conceptually
- Blueberries
- A certain 10-year-long series that had a finale so bad that it ruined the whole holiday season
- OpenAI (fuck you for trying to acquire Pinterest)
- Skateboards
