This is barely agitprop but I don't know where else to put it

The idea is to collectively make a 2025 retrospective in the vein of the Charlie Brooker wipes or Munecat's 2020 wipe.

The gist of these videos is that it's a bunch of news clips from the year passed mixed in with some fun clips and narration to form a roughly cohesive narrative of the year.

On this forum we make a lot of the fact that liberals seem unable to remember anything that precedes the current news cycle and in many cases even agreeing with leftist stances in one moment but seemingly never retaining and incorporating it into their world view.

A retrospective that includes many of the most prominent stories with some emphasis on radicalizing stories (I forgot about that!), a few ignored by the mainstream press (I didn't hear about that!) and some funnier stuff to make it go down easy could maybe help some people early in the pipe to put things together and start forming a more cohesive understanding of the world. If it doesn't do shit as agitprop then it might at least be entertaining for hexbears to watch so I think it's worth trying.

The method would be to post potential clips to a thread (a weekly thread going forward? a tag for posts in the megathread?) as we go through the year and have some kind of intermittent poll (weekly/monthly?) as to which clips should be shortlisted.

This way the work is spread thinly throughout the year so that it isn't a large effort later and recency bias can be avoided.

In December we could then have a vote on which of the short listed clips should be included as well as discussion over how it should all piece together, what things seem more relevant in hind sight than they did at the time as well as pitching some jokes.

How it gets made into a video is something to be decided later and I suspect overtime the clips we collect will start to inform us more about the precise nature of what we are making.