Setting the Tone
First of all, Justin Bieber spends a good part of 2013 dressed like this.
Unhappy New Year
2013 actually starts off rather inauspiciously for society in general when a paparazzo is hit by a car and killed on an L.A. freeway on Jan. 1 while he's angling for pics of Bieber, who seemingly had been pulled over in a traffic stop. Adding to the tragic absurdity of what happened, Bieber wasn't even in the car.
Quarter Moon
Bieber flashes his crack for Instagram. Thanks, dude.
Nothing Hazy About This
Hours after a photo of Bieber seemingly holding a joint hit the Internet, he finds a way better use for his time, visiting 7-year-old cancer patient Millie Flam.
Trail Riders
A couple of days after supposed ex Selena Gomez is spotted leaving his house, Bieber enjoys some bro time with Lil' Twist and Lil Za in early February.
Fruit of His Loins
We must not forget Justin's appearance on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon during which he revealed that Chuck Norris was his real father. And makes out with a mannequin.
Smoke Gets in His Eyes
While hosting Saturday Night Live in February, he apologizes for the real Justin's behavior, saying while playing a different character, "I also heard he got busted for smoking weed and he's really sorry about it and people make mistakes and he's never gonna do it again."
What a Gas
Does Bieber know something we don't?
Not the People's Choice
Out of all the looks the Biebs has rocked, this spiked-hat-and-leopard-pants ensemble may have been the world-at-large's (and certainly the twitterverse's) least favorite.
"Worst Birthday"
A security crackdown spelled an early end to Bieber's circus-themed 19th-birthday bash in London, prompting him to tweet, "Worst birthday."
So There
This is the Biebs' message for the photogs flocking around his b-day party fail.
Haute Couture
'Cause sometimes a guy just needs to carry a $2,600 Christian Louboutin leopard-print backpack.
Luuuke, I Am Your Father...
There goes that gas mask again!
For Your Troubles
Bieber experiences trouble breathing and collapses onstage in London. He insists on finishing his show, after which he's whisked away to the hospital to get checked out. All photographic evidence considered, he seems to be doing OK.
What Are You Looking At?!
A day after his trip to the hospital, Bieber kinda understandably lost his cool amid the swarm of paparazzi waiting outside his London hotel. Luckily, his bodyguards were there to protect him from himself.
The Bieber Bunch
The teen's family, including adorable half-bro Jaxon here, joins him in Spain during the European leg of the Believe Tour.
Reunited and It Feels So Good
Selena Gomez flies to Norway for a "personal visit" with Bieber and travels with him to Copenhagen as he jets around on the European portion of his Believe Tour.
Wishful Thinking
Maybe if he hadn't shadowboxed while visiting the Anne Frank House memorial in Amsterdam, people wouldn't have minded Bieber expressing hope that the diarist, who died in a concentration camp at 15, would have been a Belieber.
And...this is what's happening with them in April.
Dodo Chanel
Authorities may have found pot on his tour bus in Sweden, but they should have confiscated this.
People Say He Monkeys Around
For a short while, Biebs was the owner of an inarguably adorable Capuchin monkey named Mally; but, having failed to fill out the proper paperwork and go through protocol, Malley was confiscated in Germany and is now living the life with her own kind at a zoo.
As the World Turns
A young fan rushes the stage in Dubai in an attempt to hug the Biebs but security nabs him before he reaches his destination.
Yellow-Bellied
Biebs scores a cameo on The Simpsons, cementing his importance in the zeitgeist.
Boo-urns
Bieber is booed at the 2013 Billboard Music Awards (which are all based on sales, BTW) while accepting the first-ever Milestone Award. "I'm an artist and I should be taken seriously and all this other bull should not be spoken of," the platinum-selling pop star says, obviously not foreseeing the rather large amount of bull ahead of him this year.