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If you\u2019re not careful, you can find out that it\u2019s not clocking to you that you haven\u2019t been standing on business by knowing all of the cultural trends that happened this year. That\u2019s why we\u2019re going over the memes, viral moments and trend-setting sensations that dominated the cultural landscape of 2025:<\/p>\n
No one could get enough of Labubus this year. The collectible plush toys, which were created by Hong Kong illustrator Kasing Lung<\/strong>, are fluffy monsters with\u00a0pointy teeth, large ears and a playful look on their face. They\u2019re exclusively sold by the retailer Pop-Mart, although knockoff versions of the product, known as Lafufus, also took the world by storm. While most people don\u2019t usually get to pick which color Labubu appears in their blind box, TikTok user Lilzbullzmarbella<\/a> infamously showed off her gold one. \u201cI have the one and only 24 carat gold Labubu,\u201d she says in a video that went viral.<\/p>\n Here\u2019s one that we\u2019ll do our best to explain, but you may want to consult your youngest family member for more. The phrase 6-7, pronounced six seven, was completely unavoidable this year. YouTuber Cam Wilder<\/strong> posted a video in which a young boy named Maverick Trevillian<\/strong> is seen yelling, \u201cSix seven,\u201d while doing a hand gesture moving upward-facing palms up and down. Video edits of\u00a0Maverick doing this went viral, and the phrase, which has no fixed meaning, became a meme popular with Gen Alpha.<\/p>\n It was the video we all cringed at but couldn\u2019t look away from. A couple, locked in an intimate embrace, were caught allegedly cheating on their respective spouses while on the kiss cam at a Coldplay<\/strong> concert this summer. Former Astronomer CEO Andy Byron<\/strong> and its head of human resources, Kristin Cabot<\/strong>, immediately pulled apart from each other just as Coldplay\u2019s Chris Martin<\/strong> said, \u201cEither they\u2019re having an affair or they\u2019re very shy.\u201d<\/p>\n A video of Justin Bieber<\/strong> speaking to the paparazzi sparked an internet phenomenon this year. \u201cYou\u2019re not getting it. It\u2019s not clocking to you. It\u2019s not clocking to you that I\u2019m standing on business, is it?\u201d Bieber asks the photographers. The phrase became so popular that Bieber himself referenced it in his SWAG<\/em>\u00a0track \u201cSTANDING ON BUSINESS.\u201d<\/p>\n Finally, the TikTok audio referred to as \u201cNothing beats a Jet2 holiday,\u201d which featured an old advertisement for the Jet2 airline mixed with the 2015 song \u201cHold My Hand\u201d by Jess Glynne<\/strong>, took the world by storm. Everyone was using the cheerful audio to ironically post disastrous videos from vacations gone wrong.<\/p>\n Copyright \u00a9 2025, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n