It is already November, which means 2017 is almost over.

For a lot of people, that will come as a relief. It’s been an often depressing twelve months, that has subjected us to multiple terror attacks, mass shootings, beloved celebrities being revealed as monsters and Donald Trump’s obsession with making World War III a real possibility.

Still, on Twitter, people are trying to sum up the year in just four words  - using the hashtag  #2017in4words, unsurprisingly.

Some of them are bleak.

https://twitter.com/SkippyMcGizzard/status/931749494554705920 https://twitter.com/LonelyDementor/status/931749372089450497 https://twitter.com/vegavic84/status/931760023042224128 https://twitter.com/OMGod_Becky/status/931872430548598785 https://twitter.com/youngH289/status/931765529710391296 Some, however, are positive in the face o0f adversity. https://twitter.com/buterasthirI/status/931851296092680192 https://twitter.com/charley_ck14/status/931769536835178496 And some are more flippant. https://twitter.com/igzrap/status/931751980350963712 https://twitter.com/bigdweeb/status/931749071756365824 https://twitter.com/TreasuryMog/status/931817044462460929 https://twitter.com/WTFKlorine/status/931748707866877952 https://twitter.com/ANGRYref/status/931748553034121221