It's Show Time!
This Netflix series returned for its fifth and final season, wrapping up the Hargreeves siblings' timeline-bending adventures.
The Umbrella Academy
This pop superstar's "Fortnight" featuring Post Malone topped the charts, coming from her album The Tortured Poets Department.
Taylor Swift
This baggy, oversized denim style that was popular in the 90s made a major comeback in 2025, with teens preferring them over skinny jeans.
Wide-leg (baggy) jeans
This short-form video app continued to dominate in 2025, despite ongoing debates about potential bans in the United States.
TikTok
This practice of taking intentional breaks from social media became a major wellness trend in 2025, with teens doing weekly or monthly "cleanses."
Digital Detox
This animated series on Prime Video brought back the beloved superhero family for season 2, with Mark Grayson continuing to navigate life as a teenage hero.
Invincible
Sabrina Carpenter's hit had everyone singing about this caffeinated beverage and became one of summer 2025's biggest anthems.
Espresso
This footwear trend saw everyone from athletes to fashionistas wearing chunky, colorful clogs originally designed as garden shoes.
Crocs
This Meta platform launched "Threads" as a text-based competitor to Twitter/X, and it gained major traction with younger users in 2025.
This amino acid supplement found in green tea became the trendy drink additive of 2025, promising calm focus without the jitters of coffee.
L-theanine (or matcha)
This Disney+ series saw Jude Law as a Jedi leading a group of younglings on a mysterious adventure during the High Republic era of Star Wars.
Star Wars: Skeleton Crew
This artist's "Beautiful Things" became a breakout spiritual crossover hit, with a faith-popular song climbing mainstream charts throughout 2025.
Benson Boone
This Y2K accessory made a comeback, with teens clipping these small stuffed animals or decorative charms onto their bags and backpacks.
Bag charms (or Beanie Babies, or keychain accessories)
This feature became standard across social platforms in 2025, allowing users to generate images, edit photos, and create content with text prompts.
AI
This mental health term went viral on TikTok in 2025, describing the practice of noticing your thoughts and emotions without judgment, often through apps like Headspace or Calm.
Mindfulness (or meditation)
This Netflix adaptation of the beloved book series returned for season 3, following the Baudelaire orphans' misadventures—wait, wrong show! This Percy Jackson series on Disney+ continued the demigod's adventures in season 2.
What is Percy Jackson and the Olympians?
Billie Eilish released this song as the theme for an upcoming Bond film, continuing the tradition of major artists creating music for the 007 franchise.
James Bond theme song
This controversial trend had Gen Z declaring war on this specific sock length, calling them "uncool" while preferring crew or knee-high styles instead.
Ankle socks
This term describes the 2025 trend of users intentionally posting unfiltered, unedited content as a reaction against overly curated "Instagram-perfect" posts.
Authentic posting (raw-posting, de-influencing)
This Christian wellness trend combined Scripture reading with this ancient practice of slow, intentional breathing and body awareness, creating controversy in some church circles.
Christian yoga (contemplative/breath prayer)
This Apple TV+ series brought back Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Aniston for its fourth season, diving behind the scenes of a morning news program dealing with breaking stories and personal drama.
The Morning Show
This collaboration between Kendrick Lamar and SZA became one of the year's most streamed tracks, blending both artists' signature styles from their respective albums.
Luther
This color, named Pantone's Color of the Year for 2025, is described as a soft, nurturing brown tone called "Mocha Mousse."
This feature, which lets users create collaborative playlists and share music recommendations, became TikTok and Spotify's most popular crossover trend in 2025.
Collaborative playlists (music sharing)
This concept of setting healthy limits around work, relationships, and technology became Gen Z's most-discussed mental health topic in 2025, often summarized as "protecting your peace."
Boundaries