"What's A 2025 Trend You Cannot Comprehend?": 46 Current Trends That Make Zero Sense To Older Generations

Thinking science is fake, reading is dumb, math is just for people who think they are better than you, the weather is manipulated, the pyramids are alien communication devices, Atlantis is real and vaccines are mind control. Multiple people in my personal life have gone from believing none of these to believing all of these in the last 2 years.

Anti vaccines, anti education, anti common sense


so basically maga.

"influencers"

Deliberately in quotes. They don't influence anything.

The severe decline in apparel quality. Also, for everyone touting environmentally friendly policies, planned obsolescence of products by corporations in the interest of maximizing profit, and at the cost of everything else.

Not 2025 specifically, more just the past few years - there is no shame anymore. It's "cool" and "funny" to make a fool of yourself for views. Stop pranking employees who are just trying to work, stop making a mess at Walmart to be funny, stop singing and dancing in public while filming yourself, etc. I refuse to watch any creator that pulls that s**t.

The sudden inclusion of AI into everything.

Rook2Rook:
There is no critical thinking anymore amongst our youth. Every dilemma they have is answered by 'Hey Grok/ChatGPT, what do I do about it?'

Active ignorance.

We all have access to well reviewed information and expert research, yet we collectively choose to form opinions on topics we know little about and reject professional input. We would rather YouTube a question than read the manual.

Touch screens on every device.
The worst offenders are modern cars. Manufacturers are still pushing it further, despite fully knowing it‘s dangerous, because it‘s cheaper.

K**ling journalists and medics, starving a population, bombing an entire region into rubble, and publicly announcing plans to ethically cleanse said region, all the while denying that any of the above is taking place!

Labubu’s. They’re just Beanie Babies.

Cybertrucks.

People thinking Bitcoin is some sort of stable monetary system.

Voting for N*zis.

The hard war against work from home.

We have established that it and hybrid work arrangements work great for so many people, bring efficiencies and can save businesses tons of money in needing less space.

Not to mention most software products are cloud based at this point.

But yet people are trying to regress on it.

The amount of money spent on fake nails. Eyelashes, too, but I dont know how much those cost. I hear women bragging about how much they spend on their nails though.

Microsoft saving your Office files (documents, spreadsheets, and presentations) to the cloud by default.

Espionage becomes easier everyday.

Streaming culture… paying rent on media that you constantly don’t have access to, and then having to research which companies to pay these subscriptions to, and hiked up prices to avoid ads, etc…

I buy DVDs, CDs, Vinyl, Digital Downloads, and pirate, it’s not expensive, one time purchases, and I own it forever and can watch/listen whenever I want.

The AI boom.

It's basically a more efficient version of Google and more useful for consumers than businesses.

Imo, it's like the Dot Com bubble.

Anyone check out Amazon AI? Billions of dollars in company money; negative usefulness because human reviews are far better.

At work (food service), I’ve noticed a growing number of people, both customers and coworkers, thinking it’s okay to wear Airpods/headphones while interacting with each other. Personally I find it disrespectful and dystopian, but I guess they don’t. Either way, I don’t get it.

Dubai chocolate. It is $$$ and maybe it’s just me, but it does not look appealling to me at all.
juicyfizz:
And the trend has skyrocketed the price of pistachios!