Year-end Lists 2018: Best of Blogs and Websites

Instead of lists of things that happened on the internet in 2018, this post is full of year-end reports from your favorite websites about what's happened internally in 2018, or their own best-of lists.

YouTube Rewind 2018


YouTube's biggest stars got together to celebrate the past year. I could count the people I recognize on one hand, but about halfway through, this gets serious and well worth watching. I'm glad Simone Giertz got to say what's on her mind. Of course, this video only shows the good news.    

Reddit’s Year in Review: 2018.

Our Favorite Stories From Gastro Obscura’s First Year.

The Twenty-Five Most-Read New Yorker Stories of 2018.

2018: The Year In Digg.

The Best Lifehacker Videos of 2018.

Lifehacker's Most Popular Posts of 2018.

The Best Splinter Stories of 2018.

Kottke.org’s Best of 2018, Parts 1 and 2.

Mental Floss' 40 Favorite Stories of 2018. 

Our Favorite Jezebel Posts of 2018.

These Were Buzzfeed's Biggest Photo Stories In 2018.

The 20 Most-Read Cracked Articles Of 2018.

National Geographic's 100 best images of the year.

Smithsonian's Top 11 Stories of 2018.

Fark's headline of the year has yet to be announced. Check out all the contenders from each month linked here. 

See all the year-end lists here.