2020 was certainly a year for the history books — though it’ll be a chapter most of us would rather not revisit. But while this year might rank pretty low on your list, there’s plenty of stuff that happened over the last 12 months that we’ll remember as being not-so-terrible. So what were the bright spots in one of the darkest years on record? Thanks to hundreds of thousands of votes on Ranker, we can tell you exactly who and what people loved most during 2020, from politicians, to movies, to video games. Here’s the year in review according to Ranker — which means, of course, according to voters like you.

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