On The Big Screen
One half of the creative team behind "Uncut Gems", Josh Safdie directed this film in 2025 featuring performances from Timothee Chalamet and Gwenyth Paltrow.
Marty Supreme
This HBO medical drama, set during one shift in an emergency room, took home the Emmy for Outstanding Drama Series.
The Pitt
The internet came up with this term for the type of person who uses wired headphones, listens to Clairo, and reads in public.
Performative Male
This artist received 11 nominations at the 2025 Grammy Awards, including nominations in AOTY, ROTY, and SOTY
Pope Leo XIV, elected in May of 2025, is the first American pope and a fan of this Major League Baseball team.
Chicago White Sox
The DCU kicked off its theatrical debut with the movie Superman, featuring characters such as Lex Luthor, Hawkgirl, and this character, played by Skylar Gisondo
Jimmy Olsen
This cast member on NBC's Saturday Night Live shocked audiences by leaving mid-season following the performances of Ariana Grande and Cher.
Bowen Yang
From the AI Italian brainrot trend, the name of a cat mixed with a shrimp.
Trippi Troppi
A song from the hit movie K Pop Demon Hunters, this is the least streamed track from the group HUNTR/X.
Takedown
This initiative sought to cut "unnecessary spending" in the United States government, resulting in numerous mass firings and cuts to funding.
DOGE
The Minecraft Movie sees its human characters entering into the Overworld from this town, whose main business is a potato chip factory with the mascot "Chuggy the Chip".
Chuglass
The Netflix show Death by Lightning is based around the true story of the assassination of this United States President.
James Garfield
Merriam-Webster declared this to be the word of the year, based on the rising trend of low-quality, often AI generated content.
Slop
Olivia Rodrigo
This river in Europe's swimming ban lifted after 100 years of enforcement and cleanup efforts.
Seine River
Emilia Perez led a controversy-ridden Oscars season with 13 nominations. It would go on to win 2 Oscars, including Best Original Song for this performance by Zoe Saldana and Karla Sofia Gascon.
El Mal
This top 10 finisher in the latest season of Dancing with the Stars has also been seen on other television programs, such as Arrested Development and Malcom in the Middle.
Andy Richter
Counting or not counting Instagram Reels? This trend of superimposing a controversial figure's face onto prexisting memes took over the internet in late 2025.
Kirkification
This song, from the album I've Tried Everything but Therapy, sits at number 4 on the year end Billboard Hot 100, despite debuting in the summer of 2023
Lose Control - Teddy Swims
This member of England's royal family was implicated in the Epstein Files, leading to his forfeiture of his Title as the Duke of York.
Prince Andrew
In the horror movie Weapons, seventeen children are abducted from their homes by a mysterious force. This character was the only child in the class not to be abducted.
Alex Lily
In the final season of The Summer I Turned Pretty, Jerimiah Fisher and Belly Conklin argue over their contents of their wedding cake. Jerimiah says that the "whole flavor profile" depends on the bitterness of the cacao and the sweet tartness of this fruit.
Raspberry
The "I bought a property in Egypt" meme from January of 2025 featured a reference to this mythological symbol, associated with the protection and wrath of the sun.
Eye of Rah
Ben Platt
The New York mayoral election was a three-man race which included this candidate, who was known for creating the Guardian Angels and fighting various crime families.
Curtis Sliwa