Hello, and happy new year! Everyone hopes to have an A+ start to the year — but that's not always what happens. Here are 16 people who started the new year off pretty rocky:
1. This person had this bad traveling experience:
I’d just like everyone to know that @united has lost track of my bag and is lying about it. My apple AirTag shows that it has been sitting in a residential apartment complex for over a day. Out back by the dumpsters, I have found other emptied United Airlines bags.
2. And so did this person — because they got a disturbing message from their pilot:
That moment when you discover the guy sending you nudes is the pilot of your plane… 🙈
3. Right after midnight, David Byrne delivered off-key vocals during his performance of "Everybody's Coming to My House":
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4. These fans got their phones snatched by Bad Bunny:
Bad Bunny snatches phones from fans at Dominican Republic club.
5. This person got this creepy message:
Ope. Happy new year! 💀
6. This person was shut down:
7. And so was this professor:
this email I sent to my professor that kept misspelling my name was my girlboss moment
8. This person tried to quit their job and was told no:
Tried to quit the job and they said no
9. Actor Renée Elise Goldsberry thought Laura Benanti’s COVID-positive test was a pregnancy test and congratulated her.

10. R*lling Stone had a bad start to 2023 by not including Celine Dion in their "200 greatest singers" list:
RANKING THE 200 GREATEST SINGERS OF ALL TIME 🎤 https://t.co/IYXKLlgMds
11. This person failed at math early in the year:
12. This person sent their counselor a message from an old account:
i just accidentally emailed a college counselor from my email i made when i was 11. Gonna have fun explaining that one.
13. Sydney Sweeney pronounced "homage" very wrong in her video with British GQ this week:
I’m obsessed w the way Sydney Sweeney pronounces “homage.”
14. And this person mispronounced "buccal":
just found out buccal fat removal is pronounced as buckle and not byoocal