In early February 2025, there was a Russian dance teacher instructing his students how to do a dance, and a student had recorded it. Руслан Айдаев, the name of the dance teacher, was teaching his students how to do the samba dance, while wearing a blue shirt and grey pants, and on the video, it was overlapped with the song “Left & Right” by GAEL’s STONE. That video inspired many creators to start the dance trend as the instructor in the video. He was definitely a good part of 2025.

Boat racing had a big impact in late June of 2025, and that is because of Pacu Jalur, or probably better known as the aura farming boat kid. There was a video taken of a boat racing competition at a festival in Indonesia, and for the races, there is always a boy on the front of the boat dancing, bowing, and directing the boat rowers. And at one of the festivals, someone recorded a boat with Pacu as the boat dancer doing his act, and after people on TikTok and Instagram had seen it, they reuploaded it and added the song, Young, Black, and Rich by Melly Mike. Pacu jalur definitely made his mark and danced his way across 2025.

A new way of showing thanks had come to 2025, and it’s the “thank you thank you thank you” meme or trend or probably both. There was a video in mid to late 2025 of a man in a military uniform squatting down a lot while saying thank you multiple times, which gained a lot of traction on TikTok and Instagram. The video itself does not have much of a backstory, but nonetheless, thank you, thank you, thank you, for being part of 2025.

A very popular trend that arrived in the middle of the year, around early July of 2025, is The Niche Fruits. You may know them as just AI Fruits, or Niche Fruits, or some people labeled them as Freaky Fruits. The videos of these fruits had AI add faces to apples, oranges, and almost any other fruit you could think of, and the AI made the fruits eat the normal versions of those fruits, so the AI apples ate apple slices, the oranges ate orange slices, and so on and so on. The Niche Fruits definitely earned their spot on this list.

In early November 2025, there was a video of a singer, Neace Robinson and she had attended a funeral service to perform the songs Lord I Got Some Things I Need to Say and 1, 2, 3, Release ‘Em, and many people on TikTok who saw the video commented Robinson as a “stud” which is a term for a masculine black lesbian in the LGBTQ+ community. So, it was connected to know her as the Funeral Stud among users on Instagram and TikTok.

A sudden, almost last-minute trend of 2025, which has been seen changing the aesthetics of young adults considering dropping their Nike Techs. The Quarter-Zip trend started early November of 2025, but like all good trends do it has been dying a bit on social media platforms, but it will, without a doubt, always be a part of 2025.

There was a very popular theme online from earlier 2025, which has had a bit of a pause as the year has been moving on. The Italian Brainrot trend, which has been seen on social media like Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube shorts, and video games such as Roblox. It consisted of different animals or appliances merged with other animals, appliances, or foods.

What was originally a simple new sweet came to widespread attention and fame for what felt like overnight. The Dubai Chocolate trend has been an undeniably easy-to-recognize name to thousands of people, who have tried to make their own, or those who have made it so popular, chocolate brands and retail stores alike have started to make and sell their own iterations of Dubai Chocolate. It is definitely safe to say the Dubai Chocolate trend will be remembered this year.

A small keychain has taken hundreds and thousands of people by storm, with many trying to get the exact style they want or to complete a collection of them. The Labubus have become a regular name for themselves on multiple platforms online, with creators expressing their love for them and a large majority expressing their dislike for them, with a small trend among creators who have made videos of burning, exploding, and simply cutting them up. Love them or hate them, the Labubus have made quite a name for themselves.

The viral trend everyone, young and old, has become accustomed to; the 67-meme originated from a video of Maverick Trevillian. Attending a basketball game at his middle school, he and his friends were recording, and when the camera was panned to him, he was referencing the song “Doot Doot” made by rapper Skrilla, where in the song he said the two numbers that have been revolving around everyone’s life, whether it’s from peers, siblings, or especially on social media. 67.