TRENDS WE'RE KEEPING AND LEAVING IN 2025

From run clubs to being nonchalant, what's in and out this coming year?

- By ANDREA PANALIGAN

It's getting harder to differentiate one year from the other. This may be a side effect of growing older and not defining my life in grade levels, or—what seems likelier—that my sense of time is increasingly warped by constant scrolling, every single day of every single year.

How strange to have a habit so pervasive yet so meaningless, that I forget what I was so frenziedly consuming mere hours after the fact.

The internet's infinite scroll is also where today's trends are mainly born then hacked to death, proving relevant the cultural observation that social media is not just a repository or virtual translation of our lives, but our lives, period.

This list is essentially what I consider in and out for 2025, and it is, of course, not exhaustive or to be taken 100-percent seriously. Think of it as New Year's resolutions by way of trend report; an attempt to live a life we actually like, amid being served trends hyper-optimized to fit what algorithms think we like.

2024 was the year of the hobby, and thank God: I'm beginning to sound like a boomer, but spending so much time on our phones atrophies not just our attention spans but also our personalities.

How can I talk to people when the only thing I have going for myself is being very online?

I found unexpected joy in working with my hands this year, from creating friendship bracelets for Taylor Swift's "Eras" tour to hand-making zines for a stint at the annual zine fair Better Living Through Xeroxography (BLTX).