Chapter 1: What were the most significant cultural moments of 2025?
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Chapter 2: Why is Trump's inauguration considered the top event of 2025?
Alrighty folks, so it's been a really, really busy year. A lot happened this year, particularly in the cultural space. And so today we're gonna take 10 of the top cultural moments from 2025 and rank them in order of importance. So let's begin. Alrighty, so we begin with January. The president of the United States, Donald Trump, is inaugurated again.
And obviously this goes number one on our list of sort of most culturally important moments because the entire universe revolves around Donald J. Trump. That's just the way that it works. Him being president again has shaped everything from culture to politics. And so without a doubt, that is number one of our 10 events here.
Chapter 3: What is the significance of the 'six, seven' trend among youth?
All righty. The second thing that happened this year, apparently it started in late 2024, but it only came to my attention in mid 2025. And that is this craze of young people saying six, seven. By young people, I mean my own kids and all of their cousins. And in terms of cultural importance, cultural importance, I'm going to put this at number two because nobody will shut up about this.
And it's deeply annoying and speaks to the fact that nothing has any content anymore. So as a condemnation of our culture and for its ubiquity, and it's a deeply personal annoyance to me, because again, my own children will do the six, seven thing to me. They know it's a joke. They laugh. Still, I'm gonna put that at number two in terms of importance, the six, seven trend.
Chapter 4: What happened when Katy Perry went to space?
So you can see this year started well. Alrighty, in April, Katy Perry went to space. Now this was hilarious. This is like the funniest thing that happened this year was all of these women going to space and the jokes and the memes were just wonderful.
Katy started up in space.
And the fact that many people didn't want Katy Perry to, you know, ever come down. She could just live up there for a while. And then her declaring herself an astronaut. It was really quite delicious and delightful. However, in terms of importance, this one goes at like number 10.
Chapter 5: How did the Coldplay kiss cam spark conversations about infidelity?
This is not an important moment in American culture. In fact, it was because it was so deeply unimportant that everyone found it amusing. This was not us beating Sputnik. This was us putting a bubble-headed singer in space. So that's like number 10. Okay, so we have already accounted for one, two, and 10.
Okay, now, another one of these crazes that apparently swept up the whole country this year was this Lububu craze. Now, I will say this has not invaded these spaces in which I live. Like I'm aware of it only because my producers made me aware of the labubu craze. And also because apparently some members of our company were very upset that we even discussed the labubus.
Chapter 6: What impact did Sydney Sweeney's American Eagle ad have on beauty standards?
Apparently there's something satanic about them or something. I don't know. But because I don't know that much about it, I'm going to put this at nine. I just don't think the labubus are that important. Now, again, that may be my own personal opinion. sort of bubble that I live in. But yeah, I'm put that at nine. This episode is sponsored by ExpressVPN. Your online activity isn't private.
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Chapter 7: How did the engagement of Travis and Taylor influence public perception?
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Chapter 8: What are the implications of the Netflix and Warner Bros. media consolidation?
In July was one of the great moments ever, which was the Coldplay kiss cam.
Oh, look at these two. All right. They're kind of working. Either they're leaving the fair or they're just going to show up.
And this one I'm going to put at like six. This is pretty great because it did initiate a gigantic conversation, not only about the merits or demerits of Coldplay, but also
about why people cheat on their spouses why you would possibly go to a public concert with somebody that you are cheating with the merit of the big screen and why people probably should not be canoodling on the big screen in the first place and of course it became one of the funniest moments of the year now the fallout for the family wasn't tremendously funny but that was going to happen anyway that's not the fault of the screen operator or the fault of chris martin that is the fault
of the two people who were involved in this thing wrecking their respective families. So I'll put that at six because it was indeed ubiquitous. All righty. Sydney Sweeney for American Eagle. That was also in July. And this one I'm going to put at probably seven.
The reason I'm putting it at seven as opposed to the Coldplay Kiss Cam is because we could at least all enjoy the Coldplay Kiss Cam thing. Sydney Sweeney for American Eagle was culturally important in one sense, only because there had been a sort of wholesale rejection in the advertising space of the idea that female beauty standards existed.
And Sydney Sweeney is obviously a return to older beauty standards.
that is clearly the case it also was culturally divisive because so many people decided that she must be some sort of insane right-wing white supremacist and then have been trying to take it out on her movies which is really kind of nasty and terrible and stupid because as far as i'm aware sydney sweeney is not particularly political if anything she's studiously apolitical much more like chris pratt
He's so cool. But the rule apparently seems to be in political media that if you don't declare yourself a Kamala Harris fan, that somehow you deserve to be humiliated and the critics ought to go after you and all the rest. So there has been a sort of sustained campaign to harm Sydney Sweeney's career, particularly on social media, which is ugly, and could vote ill for the future.
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