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“What’s A 2025 Trend You Cannot Comprehend?”: 46 Current Trends That Make Zero Sense To Older Generations
It seems like every single day, there are new trends circulating around the internet that we’re expected to get on board with. Try this viral food! Buy this pair of shoes! And stream this new artist before their songs are so overplayed that they'll make you want to rip your hair out! It’s exhausting trying to keep up with all of the trends, so some people have decided to simply opt out.
Redditors have recently been discussing the current trends that they can't comprehend or have absolutely no interest in. From Labubus to Dubai chocolate to the sudden integration of AI into our lives, enjoy scrolling through these things that have been all the rage recently. And be sure to upvote the ones that you don’t understand the hype around either!
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#1
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.
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#4
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.
Daniela Lavanza 2 months ago
This should be higher. A big danger for our environment in the long term.
#5
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.
#6
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?'
Beak Hookage 2 months ago
Like who was even ASKING for that rubbish? But now we're suddenly being urged to use it for EVERYTHING. My phone even wants to write text messages for me. Forget it.
#7
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.
#8
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.
#9
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!
#11
Cybertrucks.
#12
People thinking Bitcoin is some sort of stable monetary system.
April Pickett 2 months ago
Yeah, and we now have a bitcoin repository as part of our government.
#13
Voting for N*zis.
Lost Panda 2 months ago (edited)
Down vote me all you want, but I'm going to say "constantly using the word Na-zi." Do I agree with certain politicians or groups? No. But that does not make anyone a Na-zi (unless they were part of the T*********h and or Neo-na-zi groups) *Edit: I did not expect Third R3ich to be censored...*
#14
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.
April Pickett 2 months ago (edited)
Companies have already built/leased that space, restaurants, bars, fast food places don't have any customers, nobody's paying to park, department stores aren't selling clothes/shoes, all the little things that make your work-from-office life happen. The big thing though is bosses and middle managers feel they're losing control of their employees, even though communication and results are better. It's hard to undo tradition.
#15
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.
Karen Bryan 2 months ago
Why spend a ton of money to look as if you have caterpillars on your face? i don't get it.
#16
Microsoft saving your Office files (documents, spreadsheets, and presentations) to the cloud by default.
Espionage becomes easier everyday.
Lost Panda 2 months ago
I keep turning off the "back up photos to cloud" option on my phone, but after every update it automatically turns back on. Instantly get the "You're out of space" no sh!t why do you think I didn't back it up?
#17
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.
#18
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.
#19
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.
#20
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!
#21
Mullets. Like, I get the irony standpoint, but no, they're genuinely fashionable and attractive right now, and that confounds the hell out of me
SchadenFreudian Psychology 2 months ago
I already lived through the 1980s once. Instead of the cråp parts of the 80s, like mullets, let’s bring back the good parts: Roe v Wade, science, and separation of church and state.
#22
Protein obsession.
jogam:
Few people in developed countries have a protein deficiency. It's fine to try to get more protein, but hyper-focusing on one nutrient most people get enough of already means not focusing on other nutrients that far more people are not getting enough of.
Lost Panda 2 months ago
I have to have ensure or protein shakes because of being underweight... I hate it, so I don't see why people are obsessed with it...
#24
Just the way so many people view s*x as something inherently bad and dangerous. We're literally going backwards and it's wild to me.
#25
Young men’s hairstyles. I can appreciate generational differences in styles, but the broccoli/alpaca haircut that they all have is atrocious.
AmputeeHandModel:
It's not just that they get the same haircut — did you know they go to salons and get PERMS to look like that?! Yeah, they don't all have curly hair. They're so desperate to fit in that they're going to a salon, and paying $100 to sit there with curlers and noxious chemicals in their hair like my mom in 1988 so they can look like a f**kin' idiot.
#26
Gen Z stare. When I interact with young people they stare at me like I shot their dog, like even basic social skills and communication are missing (no, not in the context of wanting the girlfriend experience from a minimum wage worker, just interacting with young people in appropriate places).
#27
“Spill the tea” or “that gives me ick”.
Dirk Daring 2 months ago
I don't bother with getting annoyed about each new generation's slang. I'm from the generation of kids who didn't get a Nintendo for Christmas because our parents overheard us talking about how "bad" it was.
#28
Overconsumption and debt.
#29
Videos on Facebook that don't tell you how long they are. My mom sends me videos and there is no bar at the bottom, even if I pause it to tell me how long the video is. I don't know if it's a 90 second video or 18 minutes and I don't know how much time I need to have available when I click the link.
#30
Everyone left and right complains that the economy is horrible, and yet Chickfila and McDonalds literally ALWAYS have lines, and UberEats is booming. It seems people have completely abandoned the desire to actually shop for cost effective groceries and accepted that spending $15 every time you want to eat something is just OK.
StrangeOne 2 months ago (edited)
I eat very well most of the month. Coconut milk kefir with chia seeds and blueberries. Avocado on a bagel. Stir fry veggies and rice. Every now and then I want fast food. Unless one is keeping tabs on every single person who is at a fast food joint and knows what they buy at the grocery store, you don't know if that person eats there all the time or if that's the first time they've been there in a long while. Plus, what does it matter to anyone? Eat what you want to eat and let others be.
#31
Kids going to hardcore shows and trying to cancel promoters and bands because of the moshing. Stay home.
Ellinor she/they/elle 2 months ago (edited)
Sabrina Carpenter. She said over and over that she wasn't kid friendly yet parents don't look at what their kids like, buy tickets to her concerts and then try to cancel her for "being inappropriate".
#32
That "@grok explain that" comment in every single twitter post.
Lady Eowyn 2 months ago
Grok is a word that Robert Heinlein invented in his classic work, Stranger in a Strange Land. His estate should be suing for theft of intellectual property given how it's now being used.
#33
Giant pants. People are wearing jeans that could fit a family of 3 in each leg hole why?? They also often wear them with a t shirt that's 2 sizes too small. It's so goofy looking!
#34
People harrasing other for profit, and it's not even funny.
#35
I’m a teacher, so these are from that perspective:
* 6-7
* Labubus
* Boys with mullets
* Children getting perms (especially boys).
#36
My final boomer transformation has been over the phrase "its giving" but not ending the phrase with "vibes" for whatever reason.
Like.
"Its giving cringe."
Instead of 'its giving cringe vibes." Or something of the like. Idk why but just the open ended phrasing of the "its giving" trend irks the hell out of me. Lol.
#37
That every news story has to include some random TikTok clip/opinion.
#38
Cigarettes making a comeback
_Light_The_Way:
There's no winning with nicotine. Once vapes were banned, people just switched back to cigs
Ellinor she/they/elle 2 months ago
It's getting banned in more and more places in France (Yay !)
#39
Leopard print. I thought that we, as a society, had already established ages ago that leopard print is tacky — and yet, here we are
#40
Nothing beats a jet2 holiday. ffs i can't hear it anymore.
SoakedbreadNCheese:
I hate when a meme is literally an ad 😭 being rent-free in your head is what they want, and we’re giving in every time.
#41
Skibidi toilet, I will never understand this trend or why it has gotten so widely used by children and teens.
#42
I strongly dislike the aura trend.
#43
High waisted anything. It looks so uncomfortable. And I don't find it flatters anyone's figure.
#44
Any of the brainrot like Italian brainrot, or 6 7 or mustard. I genuinely can't wrap my head around them.
#45
Young people buying old digital cameras for ridiculous amounts of money.
#46
Nirvana shirts as a fashion item.
What do you think ?
DrBronxx 2 months ago (edited)
"You kids with your loud music, and your Dan Fogelberg, your Zima, hula hoops, and Pac-Man video games!"
SchadenFreudian Psychology 2 months ago
If you don’t like it (and it’s trivial) ignore it. But if it’s a dangerous trend (like MAGA)….try to make it dîe out.
Joe Publique 2 months ago
MAGA is far more than a benign trend. It's a full-blown cult.
Load More Replies... StrangeOne 2 months ago
Just because it's a trend, doesn't mean you have to get on the bandwagon. Just do you.
DrBronxx 2 months ago (edited)
"You kids with your loud music, and your Dan Fogelberg, your Zima, hula hoops, and Pac-Man video games!"
SchadenFreudian Psychology 2 months ago
If you don’t like it (and it’s trivial) ignore it. But if it’s a dangerous trend (like MAGA)….try to make it dîe out.
Joe Publique 2 months ago
MAGA is far more than a benign trend. It's a full-blown cult.
Load More Replies... StrangeOne 2 months ago
Just because it's a trend, doesn't mean you have to get on the bandwagon. Just do you.
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