India, Dec. 25 -- Do you miss Buzzfeed? We do. They practically invented the Listicle - a story told entirely through a list. They made rankings seem fun (#4 Will Blow Your Mind! Can You Handle #8?) But what we really miss is a world simple enough to believe year-end rankings, round-ups and righteous record-keeping.

There used to be a time when Vogue would put out a slideshow of the 10 dresses that defined the year, and we'd believe it. If IMDb said that Jurassic World was the top movie of 2015, we'd tell every paleontologist to shut up about the inaccuracies. We'd quote from books that landed on NYT bestseller lists. People used to memorise which artist landed where on Rolling Stone's Top 500 Albums. "Many of my greatest inspirations, s...