Instagram’s Favorite <em>New Yorker</em> Cartoons in 2024

I love how much we humans enjoy looking back at what we recently liked and revelling in our ongoing good judgment. (A very merry Spotify Wrapped season to you all!) Our proclivities are perhaps what the Algorithm knows best: If you previously lingered on a video of a raccoon eating a taco, or perused an utterly impractical prairie dress (I, of course, choose these examples at random), you will, when presented with similar things again, most likely pause and delight. And that’s O.K.—pat yourself on the back, you magnificent maker of tastes that you continue to have!

When it comes to the cartoons we posted on Instagram in 2024, you readers relished jokes about spinach, marriage, laundry, politics, chess, puking, pollen, cats, driving, “The Bear,” and vegan witches, among other things. Meanwhile, Spotify informs me that in December I was into Cottagecore Cowboy Country Folk, but that in July I was digging Coastal Grandmother Old School Soul Motown. We contain multitudes. And, lucky for you, The New Yorker has published many multitudes of cartoons, including some of your recent favorites that I invite you to enjoy, again, here.