NEW YORK – We’ve made our way to 2024. We’ve played passenger princesses. We’ve baked enough sourdough to cover the world with our bubbly starters. We’ve worked it out and boarded it. All this.
There is a lot to leave behind as the new year approaches. Here’s a small tip of the iceberg of what we’ve completed as we move into 2025.
Summer is over for the meek!
TikTokker Jools Lebron’s 38-second video describes her workday makeup routine as “Very humble. Very conscientious” ignited the summer with memes. The video has been viewed more than 50 million times.
With her newfound fame, Lebron, a transgender woman, was able to cash in on her transition, help her family, land some brand deals, and make a big statement about staying positive. In another video, she made the world “so cute.”
I love you, Jools! But here’s the thing for all you meme-makers: summer is over. We are also looking at you, the “brother” enthusiasts. The summery greenery of it all and the Charli XCX-Kamala Harris moment were great! We know you’ll keep it contained while you move on to the next big thing.
What about all those dogs and cats watching the video over President Donald Trump’s Haitian immigrant comment? Here’s to a smoother 2025 for you, Springfield, Ohio.
Passenger Princesses: Take the wheel
Speaking of humble but no longer cute, in the name of all things sacred feminism, the passenger princesses must abdicate.
A passenger princess, according to Urban Dictionary, is “a pretty girl who has no other job than to look pretty in the passenger seat while her sleazy relationship/boyfriend/boyfriend drives around in other cars.” What is a hidden link, you may ask? It’s a secret connection. Off six.
Passenger princesses decorate their sides of the front seats with small windows in the air vents. They package food in small trays that fit in their Stanley cups. They bring in cozy blankies, replace visor mirrors with ornately lit ones, and generally reign as they ask their men to put one hand on their nearest leg.
The term has been around since at least 2020, when a Twitter user (now X) called his dog a passenger princess in a photo of said dog in the front seat of his car. This eventually turned into human princesses storming TikTok.
Take the wheel, dear princesses. We know you know how to drive. And congratulations, TikTokker @masonshea. Your passenger prince video has amassed more than 60 million views since you posted an equal treatment in early 2023.
Bubble wrap, open
Unless you’re part of a K-pop girl group and-or young, tall and thin, this trendy outfit doesn’t look good on anyone. And it’s back. On the tracks. In street clothes. On shopping pages and store shelves.
Why reach for dresses, skirts, bloomers and blouses with so many other options out there? Teen Vogue noted the embrace of Gen Z in September, describing the silhouette as having a form-fitting waist and balloon hem. It’s, wait for it, “feminine and romantic” and “draws attention to the body,” the magazine said.
Not, per the above, in a good way. And that means most women.
“There’s just something funny about bubble skirts and the way they, well, puff up around your thighs,” Harper Bazaar’s Tara Gonzalez wrote in August. “They’re a bit like a diaper in that sense, so they’re less of a crowd pleaser. Instead, they’re something you either get or you don’t.”
Bubble dresses, in various iterations, are far from cool. Pierre Cardin, Christian Dior, Hubert de Givenchy and Yves Saint Laurent got there first in the 1950s. They, yes, grew again in the 1980s and again in the 2000s.
Dare to be different!
Sourdough starter video
What did we do during the quarantine of the coronavirus pandemic? We baked bread. Specifically, we were nuts about the sourdough because we were at home with time on our hands to feed our starters and take care of raising and baking the loaves.
Well, some of you are still putting up sourdough videos, naming your newbies, selling dehydrated parts of your engines, spending hours on lifts and folds, and debating which tools and baskets are the best. .
The world has restarted. Keep your bread videos to yourself. Your initial bubble. They multiply. Your dough rises and rises again. Your little razor cuts are epic. Sourdough bread is beautiful and healthy and, now, we all know how to make it.
Sourdough video? There is no need. Thank you for your service.
Rawdogging: Throw it both ways
Depending on who you are, rawdogging has different meanings. Have sex without a condom. And there’s the male-driven travel trend to eschew all distractions, movement and food on long-haul flights.
The last crude search rose in 2024.
You have your hyper-masculine enthusiasts looking to be hyper-masculine. And you have your travelers looking to close some kind of consciousness or uber focus or, what? Who knows.
Listen: You paid for that ticket. Enjoy food, music and movies.
Also, not drinking is just dehydration stupid. So it is worthy of the blood clot not to move around.
Finding your hub just by looking at the map while flying seems pointless. Here’s to a dog-free New Year. Same goes for that airplane seat belt thing, where people find it somewhat useful (not) to buckle up at the ankles, with their knees up to their chins. Come on This can’t be that comfortable, let alone safe. Happy turbulence to all of you.
Speaking of travel trends, ditch the people curating the contents of your TSA trays. As for those of you who bought TSA trays to easily produce content at home. Not cute.
Talk loud on social media, breathe!
These potatoes. I mean, come on! are you kidding me? Wow, just wow. Don’t sleep on these! Potatoes!
Where there are content creators, there is noise. There is a superlative mountain. There is wonder, surprise, false excitement about the mundane things of the world as the race for likes, shares and comments continues.
And there’s a plague of strange verbalisms that make the various tasks sound like battlefields: I’m “entering” in ranch dressing. I’m “coming in” with this concealer. I’m “frying” the garlic. I’ll hit him with a dance!
Much has been said about social media for decades. This species is just such a stupid attempt to make something really boring sound viral-worthy. It spread faster than a runaway cash train.
Take a breath. We will watch you make potatoes. We promise.
Freestanding stands, move away
Chevron. come out Pencil. The sea of the sea.
Since virus lockdowns have offered men the time and space to groom their faces, mustaches from loners have been on the rise. Justin Bieber, Harry Styles, Pedro Pascal, The Weeknd and Jacob Elordi rock ‘beardless staches’ on red carpets and on social media, boosting everyone’s novelty.
As of September 2022, Gillette estimated that 12.5 million men in the US had mustaches. That’s a 1.5% increase from March 2020. The shaving company launched a facial hair grooming brand, King C. Gillette, to ride the wave.
Mustache, beard. Finally Independent Mustache. Polarizing. So we thank a contingent of ironic millennials looking to revisit the past for this trend? How about unironic? So we show Miles Teller’s character in the 2022 film, “Top Gun: Maverick?”
Teller’s ‘stache was a nod to the Anthony Edwards lookalike in the original 1986 Top Gun. This isn’t 1986.
Have a nice day.
Dorm rooms on steroids
Decorated beds. Custom made cabinet. An interior designer. Dorm room decor for some is way off the rails, leaving students who can’t afford to spend thousands in the dirt.
The cost of college — tuition, fees, room and board — nearly doubled between 1992 and 2022, rising from an inflation-adjusted average of $14,441 a year to $26,903 across all school types, according to the National Center for Statistics of Education. Boarding costs saw a similar increase over the same time span, from $3,824 to $7,097.
Hello, have and have not. We see you. And thank you TikTok for fueling the frenzy.
Over It runner-up
Karens: Airplane Karens. Karens at the store. Neighbor Karens. Karens Park.
Yes, we’ve mentioned you before and, lo and behold, you’re still here.
You’ve had your day. You’ve had your years. Medicines. Therapy. Whatever you need.
Sanwashing: Advance the power of facts. The end of false equivalence. In all things. That’s all.
Antiaging products for young women: The damage is done. Parents, get a grip.
Paging Dr. Beat: Emergency, emergency! All you video makers walking around the country showing off your scrubs and wardrobes. Tired content.
Wait for it. new year. New song. New memes.
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