Pop Culture Headlines of 2025
This Pixar sequel, released in 2025, introduced new emotions and sparked viral memes.
What is Inside Out 2?
This social media platform continued to be the birthplace of most viral trends in 2025.
What is TikTok?
This music genre remained the most streamed worldwide in 2025.
What is pop?
This type of artificial intelligence became widely used for writing, summarizing, and brainstorming.
What is generative AI?
This holiday marks the start of the New Year and is celebrated across many Asian countries but is not a U.S. federal holiday.
What is Lunar New Year?
This global concert tour continued into 2025 and became one of the highest-grossing tours of all time.
What is The Eras Tour?
This 2025 trend involved subtly hinting at a relationship or life change without making a formal announcement.
What is a soft launch?
This term describes a song that becomes popular long after its initial release.
What is a sleeper hit?
This global sporting event continued qualification and buildup throughout 2025.
What is the 2026 FIFA World Cup?
This country celebrates Christmas with kangaroos, barbecues, and warm summer weather.
What is Australia?
This actor starred in multiple major 2025 releases and was widely called “everywhere” online.
Who is Timothée Chalamet?
This phrase refers to aesthetic videos showing everyday moments as if they are cinematic.
What is “romanticizing your life”?
This streaming platform released its annual “Wrapped” feature again in late 2025.
What is Spotify?
This global industry experienced major disruptions in 2025 due to staffing shortages and demand surges.
What is aviation?
Unlike the U.S., many countries exchange gifts on this date rather than December 25.
What is January 6 (Epiphany/Three Kings Day)?
This 2025 movie adaptation of a popular video game franchise drew huge box office crowds.
What is Minecraft: The Movie?
This shift in online shopping let users completely purchase directly inside social media apps instead of being sent to external websites.
What is social commerce?
This phrase describes a song that suddenly becomes popular months after its release.
What is a sleeper hit?
This type of natural disaster caused record-setting insurance losses globally in 2025.
What are wildfires?
In this country, children leave out shoes to receive gifts on December 6 from St. Nicholas.
What is Germany?
What show celebrated his 50th anniversary with a massive special featuring stars from past and present.
What is Saturday Night Live?
This term describes content that feels intentionally chaotic, low effort, or ironic.
What is “corecore” or “unhinged content”?
This decade of music saw a major resurgence in 2025 playlists and fashion trends.
What are the 2000s?
In 2025, space exploration marked this historic first involving accessibility beyond Earth.
What is a wheelchair user traveling to space for the first time?
In this country, people traditionally eat KFC on Christmas Day, often pre-ordering weeks in advance.
What is Japan?