Dishy books!Bruno Mars! Human excrement! Relieve the year that was in handylisticle form, on page 52.
2013 December 2, Maria Konnikova, “A list of reasons why our brains love lists”, inThe New Yorker[1], New York, N.Y.: New Yorker Magazine,→ISSN,→OCLC, archived fromthe original on27 March 2014:
"6 TITANIC SURVIVORS WHO SHOULD HAVE DIED." "THESE 9 NAZI ATROCITIES WILL MAKE YOU LOSE FAITH IN HUMANITY." "5 INSANE PLANS FOR FEEDING WEST BERLIN YOU WON’T BELIEVE ARE REAL." These are just some of the lists that the comic strip "XKCD"recently joked would result from retrofitting the twentieth century's most newsworthy events with modern, Internet-style headlines. Despite the growing derision oflisticles exemplified by the comic, numbered lists—a venerable media format—have become one of the most ubiquitous ways to package content on the Web.
2014 April 7, Megan Garber, “Victorian Buzzfeed:[sic] ‘The 25 Stages From Courtship to Marriage’: Here’s a listicle from the 19th century that pokes fun at … listicles”, inThe Atlantic[2], archived fromthe original on13 April 2014:
The Internet did not invent thelisticle. Lists-as-arguments—lists-as-stories—have, of course, been around since long, long beforeBuzzfeed[sic] came along. And they haven't just been around; they've also been both playing with and poking fun at the list form itself, one item at a time. I mention that because thePublic Domain Review has unearthed this gem, "The 25 Stages from Courtship to Marriage," a set of hand-tinted stereographs depicting a sampling of those stages, generally from the perspective of the woman being courted. The cards are undated,PDR notes, but they mostly likely originated in the late 19th century.
2017 September 10, Leo Robson, “The Golden House is Salman Rushdie’s not-so-great American novel”, inNew Statesman[3]:
It seems little more than an exercise in googling, an attempt to sell thelisticle as literature.
2024 August 12,Dominic Dierkes, “Live Die Repeat Device (Formerly Known as the Edge of Tomorrow Device)” (12:18 from the start), inSolar Opposites[4], season 5, episode 3, spoken by Jerry (Mikey Day):
“Your trivia category choices are pop culturelisticles, discontinued snack foods, or dog sounds.” “Hey, no shame in going for the easiest one, gimme thelisticles.”
