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The internet in 2025

2025 was the year of Nano Banana saree portraits, Pudding mit Gabel, The One Piece flag protest and La Velada del Año V. Part of the last few years.

The one from 2025

Nano Banana saree portraits

You might remember it as AI saree portraits, Gemini saree trend

India took a general-purpose image tool and made one specific picture with it, several million times.

Defining moments of 2025What the year is remembered for

2025, month by monthAs it happened

  1. Italian brainrot A post pairing the audio with an AI-generated shark in shoes reaches seven million views. Wikipedia — Italian brainrot

  2. TikTok refugees American TikTok users begin signing up to RedNote. Wikipedia — Restrictions on TikTok in the United States

  3. TikTok refugees RedNote is the most-downloaded free app in Apple’s American store, with millions of new users. Wikipedia — Restrictions on TikTok in the United States

  4. Bara bada bastu The song is released. Wikipedia — Bara bada bastu

  5. Bara bada bastu It wins Melodifestivalen. Wikipedia — Bara bada bastu

  6. Ghibli-fication The image generator is released. Wikipedia — GPT Image

  7. Ghibli-fication By this date the head of the company that made it has changed his own profile picture to one, and the White House has posted another. Wikipedia — GPT Image

  8. 6-7 meme A video is posted of a boy, Maverick Trevillian, yelling the numbers. He becomes known as the 67 Kid. Wikipedia — 6-7 meme

  9. Chicken jockey Cinemas begin posting warnings. In one, audience members are ejected for lifting up a live chicken. Wikipedia — A Minecraft Movie

  10. Pretty Little Baby It has been played more than ten billion times in TikTok videos. Wikipedia — Pretty Little Baby (Connie Francis song)

  11. Labubu A mint-green one 1.2 metres tall sells for 170,000 dollars in Beijing. Wikipedia — Labubu

  12. Nothing beats a Jet2 holiday The advert’s soundtrack becomes a meme. Wikipedia — Jet2holidays

  13. Golden KPop Demon Hunters is released on Netflix. Wikipedia — Golden (Huntrix song)

  14. Golden The song is released as a single. Wikipedia — Golden (Huntrix song)

  15. Golden It becomes the first song by a female K-pop group to top Spotify’s daily chart in the United States. Wikipedia — Golden (Huntrix song)

  16. Clanker The first of several news reports on the word’s spread. Wikipedia — Clanker

  17. La Velada del Año V The fifth peaks at 9.3 million. Wikipedia — La Velada del Año

  18. Punch the Monkey Punch is born. Wikipedia — Punch (monkey)

  19. The One Piece flag protest It spreads through student-led protests around Indonesia’s independence day. Some politicians call flying it treason; the president is said to regard it as free speech. Wikipedia — Straw Hat Pirates’ Jolly Roger

  20. Golden It reaches number one on the UK singles chart. Wikipedia — Golden (Huntrix song)

  21. Pudding mit Gabel The first meeting, in Karlsruhe, draws between 150 and 200 people. Wikipedia — Pudding mit Gabel

  22. 6-7 meme Dictionary.com names “67” its word of the year. Wikipedia — 6-7 meme

  23. Conformity Gate The season’s second batch of episodes is released, and fans begin claiming that scenes have been cut. Wikipedia — Conformity Gate

  24. Conformity Gate The finale is released. The theory that it is not the real ending follows. Wikipedia — Conformity Gate

Also in 2025Older things, still moving

  1. Dubai chocolate A court in Cologne rules that a supermarket must stop selling a “Dubai” bar made in Turkey, because the name could mislead. Wikipedia — Dubai chocolate

  2. TikTok refugees TikTok suspends its service in the United States, late in the evening. Wikipedia — Restrictions on TikTok in the United States

  3. TikTok refugees The legal ban ends, having run for four days. Wikipedia — Restrictions on TikTok in the United States

  4. Dame Tu Cosita The video has passed five billion views. Wikipedia — Dame Tu Cosita

  5. Italian brainrot Cryptocurrency tokens named after the trend are launched. Wikipedia — Italian brainrot

  6. Digg Kevin Rose and Alexis Ohanian, a founder of Reddit, announce that they have bought it back. Wikipedia — Digg

  7. 4chan The site is hacked. Wikipedia — 4chan

  8. Labubu Pop Mart pauses sales in all sixteen of its British shops until June, after fights among customers. Wikipedia — Labubu

  9. Chicken jockey The studio releases a “Block Party Edition” of the film that encourages joining in. Wikipedia — A Minecraft Movie

  10. Pretty Little Baby It is reissued as a single. Wikipedia — Pretty Little Baby (Connie Francis song)

  11. Bara bada bastu It finishes fourth in the Eurovision final in Basel, representing Sweden. Wikipedia — Bara bada bastu

  12. Clanker Senator Ruben Gallego uses it of call-centre software. Wikipedia — Clanker

  13. Khaby Lame He is detained by US immigration officers in Las Vegas for overstaying a visa, and leaves the country the same day. Wikipedia — Khaby Lame

  14. Pretty Little Baby Connie Francis dies. Wikipedia — Pretty Little Baby (Connie Francis song)

  15. The Gen Z stare The New York Times writes about it. Forbes and NBC News follow within four days. Wikipedia — Gen Z stare

  16. Nothing beats a Jet2 holiday Jess Glynne is reported as calling one use of it, by an official White House account over footage of deportations, “sick”. Wikipedia — Jet2holidays

  17. Baby Shark Dance South Korea’s Supreme Court dismisses Johnny Only’s claim that Pinkfong copied his version. Wikipedia — Baby Shark

  18. The One Piece flag protest It becomes a symbol of protests in Nepal, and is hung at the main government complex as the government falls. Wikipedia — Straw Hat Pirates’ Jolly Roger

  19. The One Piece flag protest Protesters in Madagascar fly a version with a local hat, and it is seen at demonstrations in the United States. Wikipedia — Straw Hat Pirates’ Jolly Roger

  20. The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet The band releases a music video for the song. Wikipedia — The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet

  21. 6-7 meme South Park builds an episode around it. Wikipedia — 6-7 meme

  22. Pudding mit Gabel Stephen Colbert covers the trend on The Late Show. Wikipedia — Pudding mit Gabel

  23. 6-7 meme The British prime minister, Keir Starmer, apologises after doing the gesture with pupils at a school that had banned it. Wikipedia — 6-7 meme

  24. The Great Meme Reset Wired reports on the proposal. Wikipedia — Great Meme Reset

  25. Ecce Homo of Borja Giménez dies, aged 94. Wikipedia — Ecce Homo (García Martínez and Giménez)

What people were saying in 2025Said

What everybody was doingJoined in

More from 2025Also remembered

On this page: 24 named things from 2025, 1 meme, 9 sounds and sayings and 10 trends among them.

The years either sideNearby