January 5, 2026 • 34 mins
SMNTY takes a look back over 2025 trends and asks: were we trendy? Spoiler alert - not really.
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Hey, this is Annie and Samantha.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
I'm welcome to stuff I ever told you, protection of
iHeart Radio.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
And happy New Year.
Speaker 4 (00:19):
I believe this is the first Monday MANI of twenty
twenty six. Yeah, I got it, right, got it, I
got it. I didn't have to write that down, y'all. However,
we are recording this in twenty twenty five, so I
left from the past. Yeah, welcome to.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
The present always, I guess technically for the luck.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
For the future.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
Yeah, but even though it is a new year, I
thought we would use this Monday Mini and look back
at some of the happenings of twenty twenty five. And
I decided I wanted to look at the listicles, which
kind of have fallen out of favor.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
I don't see those as much, mayb because I don't.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
Get like BuzzFeed, which was the beginning of the listicles.
But I thought we would look at some of those
that and tell us the biggest trends of twenty twenty five, which,
by the way, was really hard because it's very specific.
They don't just give you big trends anymore. It's just
irritating indeed. But with that also see if Adi and
are are trendy. We'll see this if we are a
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little bit, a little bit more than you would think.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
I don't think so.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
Maybe it's a cyclical. A lot of these things are cyclical,
I'll say that. So I thought we would start off
with beauty trends, and I'm going by like different resources.
So I'll tell you what's coming from what this one
was for Vogue. Obviously Vogue would have beauty trends. One
of the things that they talked about are Bob's and Bixi's, which,
by the way, I'd never heard of Bixi's, but that
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means Bob plus Pixie, so shorter but shaggy. I'm assuming
Bob plus Pixie would be shaggy.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Maybe I do have a if that's what it is,
I can see it in my head.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
I've seen people wearing their hair like that.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
So we just saw Holly and I feel as she
may have ohixy because kind of that.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
I could be wrong. I could be wrong.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
I think hers is probably a little longer than that,
but in my head, if it was shorter, it would
be that.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
I will say.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
Because this came from like the popularization was way back
when obviously tweties, even probably before then, but the nineties
were raging with the bob, and I actually had one.
I look very news anger ish, but I thought about
rocking one this year and I didn't. But I used
to do that every couple of years because I would
brow my hair out and then chop it off and
(02:29):
I could not pull off a pixie. I don't think
I could pull off a bixie either, But but the
bob Bob was in. I know, you've never done a bob, right,
I kind.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Of had one right after COVID.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Oh yeah, yeah, And I went to get my haircut
and I was gonna donate it, and they were like,
you're gonna have to go real short to meet the
minimum length to donate hair. So that was probably the
closest I got. When I was in fifth grade, I
tried to do I don't know if anybody remembers the this,
but Courtney Cox's hair from friends and screamed too.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
And it was.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Kind of a bob and it did not look good
because my hair is thick and drives it like flutes.
It looks like a bowl cut kind of situation, not
in the good way. Some people could pull that off.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
I couldnot the nineties also loved the bowl cut, so
you must have said it more than you thought.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
It did look good.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
I did look good, all right, I will I need pictures.
I need pictures. Pictures. Are you're lying to me?
Speaker 4 (03:31):
The other trend which I kind of want to come
back to, because we need to have a conversation about
body image once again. I feel like because there's a
whole reversal, but face left transparency. Now we're not just
talking about facelift, because I feel like that's a constant,
especially when we look at the celebrity world and the
famous people. But the transparency part is what they were
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saying was trending, like finally gotten to the point that
people were being up front about what they were happening
because they don't want to pretend like it's just how
I did these things. I've seen a lot of TikTok
influencers talking about their procedures and giving shout outs to
people as well, because they're like, you know, it's something
that I do to make myself feel better, and I'm
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not going to sit here and pretend like all of
a sudden I started deaging. So again, I do want
to come back because I feel like the rise of
the facelift and plastic surgery has gone up. There's some
new technologies that have happened, and so people are really
jumping back on board because we've seen some good examples
of like, oh wow, this is interesting because it's not
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what we typically see a facelifts, Like there is like
one look typically when it comes to facelift, and something
has changed and caused like a little less robotic look.
I don't know how else to describe it, but that's
coming out. This is from Vogue. They write this, What
sit out the most is that people have become more
comfortable admitting when they have gotten work done. A controversial picture,
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but whatever your stance on plastic surgery, there's no denying
that this type of trans parency is refreshing. And I
think at least noting that this is not natural, it's
not just because and then giving people false hope of
buying products A, B and C will do these things
for you, it is nice to see. I feel like
we've kind of backtracked with the ozimbic usage because people
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are now not wanting to talk about that, and people
who are already thin are using it to get even thinner,
and we need to keep going back onto this conversation
because that so I feel like we're going back to
the nineties eighties unfortunate like eating disorder, level of skinny,
not that that's ever gone away, but like it actually being
in a trend.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
We need to have a conversation about that. But all
that to say is this transparency is the new part
of the plastic surgery.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
And then there's a thing called a blush renaissance, and
I was like, there's several other things. At first I
thought this said British renaissance, and I was like, what,
I don't get it.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
But they are.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
Talking about actually using blush, and this is what they
write again. Vogue Marie Antoinette blush, cherry blossom blush, watercolor blush.
Twenty twenty five marked the year of flushed and rosy cheeks.
On the surface, blush can add dimension and energy to
your entire look without putting too much effort. But experts
believe that this year we use blush as a marker
of our identity. We had a makeup sponsor, Merit that
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sent us a blush that I love and I use
it all the time because I feel like I look
sick without it now. My niece had to teach me
how to use it, by the way, because that's the
way that you use it has changed over the years,
which is the whole different conversation. But I was like,
oh oh, and the application is so much easier than
what it used to be.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Yeah, and I love it and will say I did
hop on board in this one.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Annie.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Did you use your blush because you got.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Some Okay, okay, currently not a sponsor, no, but they were.
I did really enjoy their products. And actually I'm glad
you because I couldn't remember the name Marrit. I was like,
I knew I have it somewhere and I really enjoyed it,
and I just can't remember what it is. I don't
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wear makeup unless time going out somewhere, and even then
I might not, yeah, depending on because usually I shower
before I go somewhere, which and I don't want to
have I don't want to shower again after I put
on the makeup.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Wash your face.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
I do, but it's not enough. Yeah, So I don't
wear I told.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
You I was gonna be turn well, Okay, I do
use this blush, and I do love the blush style.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
I think that's different.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
So this is from innertech dot com. H e U
R I T e C.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
H Uh.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
They had a boo ho chic and Swede.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
I do not wear Swede. I will tell you this,
But what I have used, and they have talked about
it is like the larger like bags and skirts and outerwear,
so like, what do you see is a little more
flowy and I am all for that. The more room
in my pants.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Weird, but the better.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
Like I love a floey but I don't use swayed.
Sweet is too heavy when you live in Georgia. It
feels like it's too much. Also, I am completely accident prone.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Sway is not great for that.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
No, famously not great for that.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
You have you worn any Swede as of late, I.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Can't recall the last time I wore Swede.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
I don't think I feel like mine was in the
nineties when I had a swayed jacket that again got
disgusting and nothing could clean it, like you took it
to the dryers and the color changed on it, like yeah,
dry cleaners, and I was.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Like, what just happened?
Speaker 4 (08:42):
Anyway, hotpants apparently is in any According to them as well,
they have become the new mini skirt, they said, and
it's styled with either bare legs or paired with stuckings.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
I will tell you no, I don't wear hotpants. I
never have, never will.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
I feel like I would shame my ancestors because I
do not.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
I would not look great in them.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
I'm not even entirely sure what hot pants are.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
They're pretty much like bloomer but tighter.
Speaker 5 (09:10):
Oh really yeah, like very short short hotpants. What seventy style,
very seventy style, like rollerbladers from those times with the
shorts shorts, Uh, tight pants like shorts that just come right.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Below the But they're called pants.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
Hot pants, very I believe. I'm pretty sure that's what
the pictures that I saw. Kids are going to be, like,
what the hell out with you? There's so many things.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
This is why we're not trendy. Uh, this is what
this is kind of for you.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
The elevated cute sportswear or at leisure wear has become
a huge trend this year. So it says for spring
summer twenty five, a shift towards softer, more feminine code
to sports like yoga, which feels very gendered and gross,
pilates and ballet is being shown think about effortless, more
cute elegance with a sporty edge. So essentially like wearing
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yoga pants instead of jeans as a part of your outfit,
like wearing that, which, by the way, again very nineties,
because we would wear tights or legging like that and
with our boots, our Timberlin boots and the long socks
which is coming out, y'all is all here with like
a sweater.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
I do like the leggings with the sweater. Look, yeah,
that's good.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
It's back in.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
I know, you go out in most of the times
in like very convenient, like yoga pants with pockets and
sweatshirts and stuff. And I have just embraced the love
of sweatpants and tennis shoes while I go out.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
And I never used to wear I would never.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Yeah, it used to be like your life must be
falling apart sweatpants exactly.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
And now it's kind of cute and they want you
to have the whole outfit, the hoodie and being cute
with use and like I'm like.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
That's acceptable. Yeah I missed. I just have to make
sure we off here.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
Forever we've been preparing, we've been training for this, but yeah,
that's apparently in I appreciate that animal print. I have
never been a fan and that's an eighties as an
eighties I like it.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
I can't do it.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
I don't like it. I don't think it's not my thing.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
It's not my thing, and I think it's good on
a lot of people. But we grew up with it
being like older women, older rich women, like sixty seventies
wearing like or love you New Jersey, but that stereotype
of New Jersey people wearing leperskin pattern.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Yeah, I don't know. I just never no, I just
never liked it.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Well, we are not doing well in this trend.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
That will no.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
Then we have a couple of other things and we're
not talking about men. But one of the things I
didn't want to talk about was that men in makeup
have come to a rise, like the amount of people,
amount of men who are now wearing makeup has gone up,
as in fact, the purchase of Foundations went up nineteen
percent this year for men to use that as well
as other types of makeup, and it actually being at
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advertising to geared toward men as well, which is lovely
to see feel good about yourself. The use of lab
grown diamonds have increased. And it's interesting the way they
speak about it, because it looks like it's a marketing
competition the entire time, not necessarily like environmental. So I'm
not really sure the context of it. But the rise
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has come about as well as the fact that they
are competing about what's the best quality. The beers was
all up in that, So I don't know they are like, no,
make sure they know we are the leading. Whoever, again,
sports has risen again, they said from the meat glimpse
dot com. This is from meat Glimps dot com.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
At leisure.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
The mix of sports wear into everyday fashion is one
of the top fashion and apparel trends. Its growth is
oed to the decline of formality in American fashion and
the desire to be seen as healthy. I don't feel
like I've never noticed that as being healthy. No, but okay,
comfortable your pants, tights, sneakers, legings, gym shorts and so on.
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I feel like jim shorts have always been acceptable because
men didn't are not.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
No, this is teered. It just cheered a memory for
me that I totally forgot about. So I at the
college I went to predominantly male college. Our newspaper printed
like an opinion piece. Oh, and it was basically like
it's acceptable for men to wear gym shorts to class,
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but not women.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
And it caused this whole thing.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
On campus, and like people were people were writing in
and being so angry about like why so dudes can
wear jim shorts to class.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
If we can't. I forgot about that.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
It's the thing. It has always been a thing.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
One of the also other rises, obviously is Korean beauty products,
and I feel like that's been the trend for the
last two or three years on social media. Has a
lot to do with this, but they say, they write
the global cultural influence of K pop and K dramas
have affected a range of industries, from introducing popular skincare
trends like Glaskin and to sparking Korean inspired alcohol trends
so like soju, which has become big as well.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
So I'm like, it's true, it's true.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
A lot of like at least Asian focused makeup has
become more popularized over the last couple of years. This
is from trend hunter dot com. They have a lot
of lists as well. They have like over one hundred
different things from their twenty twenty five trend report, and
these were the few like beauty trends or like clothing
fashion trends.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
They say Dad.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
Bought T shirt are in again, I don't think that's
never been out. T shirts in general movie inspired apparel.
So we've had a lot of like and with that,
a lot of collabs are seen, whether it's through food,
whether it's through makeup, whether it's through clothing items. One
of the things they talked about is Wicked and Forever
twenty one having a collab with their stuff. I'm like, oh, yeah,
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that makes sense. I see a lot of things happening
with like Capop Damen a Hunter again and having apparel.
We know that one of the biggest things with shoes
in like basketball. Like, all of these collabs and individual
people and celebrities are pretty huge and have always been.
So I don't know, but that's that was a thing.
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Contemporary cowgirl clothing and I have seen a large amount
of boots.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Cowboy boots just another thing. I was never really a fan.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
I wasn't either.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
They're not comfortable. I had a pair when I was
a kid.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Oh really, even as a kid, I didn't think they
looked good, but also they weren't comfortable.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
Yeah that makes sense, that doesn't It doesn't look comfortable.
I think you have to break them in like any Yeah,
I'm sure.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
Being from L A J. I did not want cowboys.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
No. No.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
I wondered if there was an opposite I guess like Vans,
and I still didn't wear those either.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Converse that was big.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Yeah, do you know the Vans like the big uh.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
Thick shoes that looked like Yeah, that was That was
the opposite trend for us. And then there's the food trends.
This is from eater dot com. Macha Macha was big.
I really don't like Macha. I was telling someone that yesterday,
executive producer Maya, and she's like really, I was like, no,
I'm not a fan, did you. I guess you don't
drink Loft caffeine anymore, so you probably don't.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
I don't, but I did like.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
I liked certain Japanese restaurants they have the bunch of
ice creams and I liked that as a kids. Yeah,
I don't have a lot of experience with Macha outside
of that. I've had it, but that's like the first
thing that pops the ice cream.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
That makes sense.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
Uh, there's a rise of steakhouses, And it's true because
I actually went to one recently, and there's like several
around here in Atlanta that have popped open.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
And I was like, oh, yeah.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
Because it used to be such a foreign idea, Like
we went to one of the oldest ones in New
York a couple of years ago last year, and it
was wonderful, but the experience threw us back to the
eighties or seventies.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Yeah, a lot of times they do.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
I feel like it's either your going back in time
or you're like it's so new aging like, yeah.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
It's so ridiculous, but they're trying to make it old
school at the same time that it feels odd. It
was good. Atlanta one was really good, I will say.
And then Vogue wrote about proteins being one of the
biggest trends of the year, and it's true. I got
caught up in that too. I still am caught up
in it because I'm like, I don't know if I'm
getting into proteins, and then I'm like, maybe I'm getting
too many.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
This is what they wrote. Algorithms were filled with protein hacks.
Then we saw the launch of protein popcorn and protein
liquid drinks all over our grocery store aisles. Everyone was
obsessed with this nutrient and they still are.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
I think it has a little to do with like Atkins, maybe.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
The Atkins diet for listeners who might not younger folks
might not know.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
They still have products out there.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
It still exists.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
I in fact trying to get you to do some
more protein as they put it in your coffee.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
You did, but I was not eating too much so well.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
Also, yeah, this was about nutrients more so than the
protein part.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Yeah yeah, but this is another one where I'm like,
did this ever go away?
Speaker 4 (18:42):
I feel like it maybe not, But like iink, we're
saying adding more things into more protein instead of just
being like you need more proteins that are actually making products.
That's just like, oh it has proteins. Oh this has proteins. Milk,
this is proteins. Mm hmm, okay like that yeah yeah yeah.
Trend Hunter says that we have romantic champagne cocktails have
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made a comeback.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Okay, I'm try.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
I don't feel like they've gone away either, but apparently
maybe again, this also has a lot of celebrity collabse.
We see a lot of groups like selling specific types
of food, ramen, k pop, like we've seen that as
a whole thing.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
If nothing else.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
Korean has got the whole celebrity collab on lock with
every damn thing, including coffee, including ramen, including your dumplings.
They love some celebrity collabs and sponsorships. Apparently there's a rise.
And I do see this with the toys in meals
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and to the point that they were like being nostalgic
enough to gear it towards adults, like giving adult version
toys and like McDonald's toys and trends and people trying
to collect those, and now them being like selling out
in such masses.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
Did you see that? I know you didn't participate, but
have you seen.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
I feel that I did see as someone who unfortunately
still has to watch ads on YouTube, I feel that
I did see you.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Like an adult.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Happy Meal there at two a year, yeah, which they've
done before, but it was an ad about like here
are your adult Happy Meal options and here are the
toy options.
Speaker 4 (20:28):
And I was kind of like, uh, okay, yeah, it's
back in meat glimps dot com, which we are going
using several of their stuff because they have great categorized
trends for you to see statistically.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
But they put liquid mills as.
Speaker 4 (20:43):
Being one of the biggest trends of twenty twenty five,
and that actually has always been the thing a little bit,
but it has become even bigger. So they wrote today's
other category leader. Soilent first sold itself as the non
food of choice for busy for too busy to eat
Silicon Valley workers, but it's now facing a rising lot
tide of petition. Heughle, a person who contributed, says customers
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include doctors, students, and shift workers, on top of fitness
buffs and efficiency obsessed tech executives.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
The focus is.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
On offering nutritionally complete meals rather than low calori products,
a message that mirrors the broader cultural shift toward health
and wellness over weight loss. So it's not just about
weight loss, it's just about getting what you can very
quickly out of there. And I think that rise has
come up because we can see it in smoothies, we
can see it in like even liquid IV and like
restoration care, all of this stuff, and that's interesting. They
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also talk about food delivery apps, but not necessarily about
the usage, but about like decision making. So this is
what they wrote. The rise of food delivery apps has
led to unprecedented analysis paralysis, with consumers taking to TikTok
and Reddit for advice. Post titled what should I eat
rack up millions of views. Some apps, like Tiny Decisions
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and food Picker, featured in February twenty twenty three, are
designed to help users rate the deadlock for the sake
of deciding, producing answers that are either truly random or
close to it. The which One app has emerged as
a blend of decision making meets social media. Users can
post polls for questions like what books should I read next?
Or what pictures should I post? On Instagram, providing a
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dual opportunity both for posters to make decisions and scrollers
to feel their voice is heard. If your favorite creator
or artist pops a question, it even presents a unique
chance to be on the inside of their creative process.
So analysis paralysis has gone up and it has become
a friend in twenty twenty five, to the point that
there are apps made to help you decide what to eat.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Didn't This used to be called decision fatigue?
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Or we just you tell me because I don't know
the obviously.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Decision fatigue is like the common example would be if
you were at a sandwich place and had so many
options that you eventually were just like, I'm tired.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
Yeah, I can't make another decision.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
I will say when I go on vacation, and if
it's like something I supposed to be special for me,
I'm like, I don't want to do make decisions. Please
just do it for me, That's all I'm asking. And
like some of the biggest arguments, not arguments, but like frustrations,
this is going back and forth, what do you want
to need?
Speaker 3 (23:13):
I don't know what do you want to eat? Well?
Do you do you have? What do you like? So
maybe it is, but at this point.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
The analysis prows. It's okay.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
Analysis paralysis is a thing. Another food trend. Alternative milks
or dairy products rather postechio milk has gone up, but
ninety one percent.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
I don't even know if I've seen this, Nope, but
I have.
Speaker 4 (23:36):
I have tried, Like I there are brands that are
solely alternatives and have no like milk or dairy options.
So I've accidentally bought alternatives without meaning to.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
It would not surprise you how much of a war
in the dairy industry this is. I'm sure Savor has
done several episodes on it, but like calling something milk
and what it means, Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
Oh there's what a fight.
Speaker 4 (24:04):
But you know what, the trend is only rising because
they're adding more options, but it's more expensive than milk.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Yeah, unfortunately.
Speaker 4 (24:24):
And the other trends that I saw are was the
usage of AI and this is from meeting glimps dot com.
But we're not specifically talking about AI because we know
it is a trend. People are using it. It is
are on the rise, people are being forced to use it.
Whether or not you want to just be on internet
means you're probably on AI. But the one of the
increases of the usages of AI is for companionship. So
(24:49):
this is again from meet glimps dot com and they
write recently a number of companies have experimented with giving
robotic pests to nursing home residents. Remarkably, one business called
Pair got the FDA to classify their companion robots as
a medical device. This significant milestone allows the product to
be eligible for insurance coverage and shifting to spend from
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the consumer to the insurance company means a whole lot
more revenue potential and less price sensitivity. So they're using
this purposely in order to see if they can help
the loneliness epidemic, not just mal but in general, maybe
in a medical way.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
I have seen, have you.
Speaker 4 (25:27):
I've gotten ads that aren't ads that are the robots
the way you can communicate, like your your sibling or
your pamily parents live across the country. These little robots
can pretend to be with you and you're just watching
them roam about and freely go around and talk to
you through this. I don't know that's not AI and robotics,
but like it's kind of that level.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
I haven't seen that, but I've seen an ad for
it's a puppy. Yeah, it's a robotic puppy. And the
ad starts out with like even a veterinarian anarian friend
didn't know.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
This, wasn't seen that.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
That's a lie.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
Yeah, that doesn't seem right.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
That's a lot.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
So the usage of AI Companion, which is one of
the companies, has gone up to one hundred and six
percent in its actual usage, So that's a huge number.
It could have been from zero to that, but you know,
and then of course again bots. This is from Forbes
dot com. And what I mean by bots, I mean
bots that like infiltrate social media.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
They write this.
Speaker 4 (26:32):
In twenty twenty five, bots are expected to account for
over fifty percent of Internet off traffic, which we noted
posing significant risk in areas like elections and the spread
of conspiracy theories. Key countermeasures to tackle the problem will
include using AI and machine learning to detect encounter increasingly
sophisticated human like bots. Of course, all of this conversation
(26:55):
has to do with like, what are the ais bringing
in the bots?
Speaker 1 (26:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (27:01):
Yeah, are the AI the boss ai? Mm hmmm.
Speaker 4 (27:08):
So that was coming from a Forbes because this one
was a more serious trend, global trend that I was like,
We're not getting into this, We're not getting into this.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
This is It is on our short list for episodes
of New Year.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Though, Yeah, I know it's gonna be sad.
Speaker 4 (27:24):
Like going back to music trends. Uh So this one
is from newsroom dot Spotify dot com.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
Two of the I.
Speaker 4 (27:30):
Believe workers or people that work in Spotify or having
an interview about some of those trends. They saw this
year kpop he made a huge rise. Growth of afrobeat
made a huge rise. I am one of those people
who was listening to afrobeat. So yeah, they did actually
say that they felt like social media things like TikTok
have really opened up for people to see a broader
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selection of music worldwide, and so they think that this
type of reach has gotten big because of the again,
like the trends and the music's being used or the
sounds being used on different social media. So I find
that fascinating kind of exciting. Also, I thought I would
do a small thing about hobbies game like tabletop gaming
(28:14):
is on the rise, just for you to know, Anny.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
Have you played a lot of tabletop games recently this year?
Speaker 4 (28:22):
No?
Speaker 2 (28:22):
But I have so many I want to play. Some
of it is like you got to hang out with people,
although I do have some thanks to some listeners have
written in here. Some you can play by yourself, like
the Final Girl games you can play by yourself. So
I've been that Last of Us game. I gotta look
(28:43):
at that one, I mean, the Last of Us board game.
I bet it's hard. I bet it's really difficult.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
Yeah, I'm sure it.
Speaker 4 (28:51):
So some of the hobbies that teenagers and this is
from modakmakers dot com that were for twenty twenty five
were searches, which that makes me so happy as a
kid who also loved worse search, and I still love
them today that I'm.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
Like, kids love word search.
Speaker 4 (29:09):
Teenagers specifically teenagers. Just so you know, they also said
soaking corks was a thing.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
Okay, okay, I.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
Didn't know that was a thing. I didn't know that
was a thing for like children.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
Yeah, like I knew it existed, but I've never I
don't even.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
Know if I knew existed.
Speaker 4 (29:30):
To be fair, some of the trends for adults and
one of the what what do you think? Was one
of the number one hobbies for.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
Adults this year coloring.
Speaker 4 (29:40):
No when I say you're going to give me as
a pickleball?
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Oh sure, yeah, I never heard of pickleball. And then Sudden.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
Everywhere Apparently in twenty twenty five they the business one
of the businesses that were for pickleball. It's worth over
three million dollars. It went from like being a shark
take to a three million dollar company in a year
because of the popularity of pickleball. Apparently, seniors, seniors really
like pickleball. Yeah, so I hear apparently, who knew? I
(30:15):
didn't know that, But it makes sense. F one fandom
has gone up.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Yeah, gosh, oh it has.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
Oh you know this, I'm seeing this and a lot
of fan fiction people are writing F one really like
Star Wars fan fiction. I did not know that that
makes sense now that you say, because there's been like
three or four that I've seen recently, are like, why
are we doing F one? Okay, all right, who knew?
Speaker 3 (30:42):
I did not know this.
Speaker 4 (30:43):
Now I knew pickleball was getting like a lot of love.
I didn't realize that was gonna be. Yeah, has loved
as it's such such a rich sport.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
Yeah, I don't know much about it other than it
feels like a.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
Kind of a rich older.
Speaker 4 (31:02):
Yeah, Lamborghinia type of like FERRARII people that we only
think about rich.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
I'm happy for.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
Yeah. Hobbies are good, sure, sure, just be careful.
Speaker 4 (31:15):
And we asked a list from hobbyco dot com and
they said that the most popular hobby in twenty twenty
five were model kids people bringing back the model kids
because creativity and patience apparently was love puzzles and brain users.
I knew it would be there. That was number three
for them. Board games and tabletops were number four, and
then the number five was collectibles and pop culture, including
(31:39):
things like Star Wars figurines as well as Pokemon cars
type of thing. Huh, how many of those were you
a part of?
Speaker 1 (31:49):
I feel like you're cute.
Speaker 4 (31:54):
But there are some of the trends of twenty twenty five.
I am, I will be. I think we'll try to
do this again next year. Remind me any because I
want to forget, or we will look and see if
any of these have changed for us, or if we
pick up any I don't think pickleball will be a
thing for me.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
No, I don't neither, Swede.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
I could animal print. No, unless something very wild happens
in my life. I don't think so.
Speaker 3 (32:20):
I might go back to the Bob. That might happen
this year. Okay, it might happen this year.
Speaker 4 (32:25):
Well, everyone happy twenty twenty six. As we are here,
let us know what you thought of some of these trends.
Did you think there was something that was glaringly omitted? Yeah,
don't tell us sad stuff. They just interesting stuff.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
Did you ever have an unfortunate bob?
Speaker 4 (32:45):
Oh? My bobs are always been very cute like that.
My whoever would cut my hair did a really great job.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
Well, I was asking the listeners. I appreciate me.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
Yes, let us know about your bob. Did you have
a bowl cut? Did you have a pick? See that
went wrong?
Speaker 2 (33:02):
All right, I like how we were like, don't tell
us any sad stuff, but give us your hair horror story.
Speaker 3 (33:07):
It is not sad. Then I'm in world.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
Yeah, if you can look back and I can look
back at last right, Yeah, it wasn't funny at the time,
though you can love it. No, it looked very terrible. Oh,
I'll try to find a picture to you. It is
no good. Yeah, let us know about what trends you
saw and what we might have missed. Uh, and we
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(33:54):
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Hey, this is Annie and Samantha.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
I'm welcome to stuff I ever told you, protection of
iHeart Radio.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
And happy New Year.
Speaker 4 (00:19):
I believe this is the first Monday MANI of twenty
twenty six. Yeah, I got it, right, got it, I
got it. I didn't have to write that down, y'all. However,
we are recording this in twenty twenty five, so I
left from the past. Yeah, welcome to.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
The present always, I guess technically for the luck.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
For the future.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
Yeah, but even though it is a new year, I
thought we would use this Monday Mini and look back
at some of the happenings of twenty twenty five. And
I decided I wanted to look at the listicles, which
kind of have fallen out of favor.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
I don't see those as much, mayb because I don't.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
Get like BuzzFeed, which was the beginning of the listicles.
But I thought we would look at some of those
that and tell us the biggest trends of twenty twenty five, which,
by the way, was really hard because it's very specific.
They don't just give you big trends anymore. It's just
irritating indeed. But with that also see if Adi and
are are trendy. We'll see this if we are a
(01:15):
little bit, a little bit more than you would think.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
I don't think so.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
Maybe it's a cyclical. A lot of these things are cyclical,
I'll say that. So I thought we would start off
with beauty trends, and I'm going by like different resources.
So I'll tell you what's coming from what this one
was for Vogue. Obviously Vogue would have beauty trends. One
of the things that they talked about are Bob's and Bixi's, which,
by the way, I'd never heard of Bixi's, but that
(01:39):
means Bob plus Pixie, so shorter but shaggy. I'm assuming
Bob plus Pixie would be shaggy.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Maybe I do have a if that's what it is,
I can see it in my head.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
I've seen people wearing their hair like that.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
So we just saw Holly and I feel as she
may have ohixy because kind of that.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
I could be wrong. I could be wrong.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
I think hers is probably a little longer than that,
but in my head, if it was shorter, it would
be that.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
I will say.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
Because this came from like the popularization was way back
when obviously tweties, even probably before then, but the nineties
were raging with the bob, and I actually had one.
I look very news anger ish, but I thought about
rocking one this year and I didn't. But I used
to do that every couple of years because I would
brow my hair out and then chop it off and
(02:29):
I could not pull off a pixie. I don't think
I could pull off a bixie either, But but the
bob Bob was in. I know, you've never done a bob, right,
I kind.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Of had one right after COVID.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Oh yeah, yeah, And I went to get my haircut
and I was gonna donate it, and they were like,
you're gonna have to go real short to meet the
minimum length to donate hair. So that was probably the
closest I got. When I was in fifth grade, I
tried to do I don't know if anybody remembers the this,
but Courtney Cox's hair from friends and screamed too.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
And it was.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Kind of a bob and it did not look good
because my hair is thick and drives it like flutes.
It looks like a bowl cut kind of situation, not
in the good way. Some people could pull that off.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
I couldnot the nineties also loved the bowl cut, so
you must have said it more than you thought.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
It did look good.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
I did look good, all right, I will I need pictures.
I need pictures. Pictures. Are you're lying to me?
Speaker 4 (03:31):
The other trend which I kind of want to come
back to, because we need to have a conversation about
body image once again. I feel like because there's a
whole reversal, but face left transparency. Now we're not just
talking about facelift, because I feel like that's a constant,
especially when we look at the celebrity world and the
famous people. But the transparency part is what they were
(03:52):
saying was trending, like finally gotten to the point that
people were being up front about what they were happening
because they don't want to pretend like it's just how
I did these things. I've seen a lot of TikTok
influencers talking about their procedures and giving shout outs to
people as well, because they're like, you know, it's something
that I do to make myself feel better, and I'm
(04:12):
not going to sit here and pretend like all of
a sudden I started deaging. So again, I do want
to come back because I feel like the rise of
the facelift and plastic surgery has gone up. There's some
new technologies that have happened, and so people are really
jumping back on board because we've seen some good examples
of like, oh wow, this is interesting because it's not
(04:33):
what we typically see a facelifts, Like there is like
one look typically when it comes to facelift, and something
has changed and caused like a little less robotic look.
I don't know how else to describe it, but that's
coming out. This is from Vogue. They write this, What
sit out the most is that people have become more
comfortable admitting when they have gotten work done. A controversial picture,
(04:56):
but whatever your stance on plastic surgery, there's no denying
that this type of trans parency is refreshing. And I
think at least noting that this is not natural, it's
not just because and then giving people false hope of
buying products A, B and C will do these things
for you, it is nice to see. I feel like
we've kind of backtracked with the ozimbic usage because people
(05:18):
are now not wanting to talk about that, and people
who are already thin are using it to get even thinner,
and we need to keep going back onto this conversation
because that so I feel like we're going back to
the nineties eighties unfortunate like eating disorder, level of skinny,
not that that's ever gone away, but like it actually being
in a trend.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
We need to have a conversation about that. But all
that to say is this transparency is the new part
of the plastic surgery.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
And then there's a thing called a blush renaissance, and
I was like, there's several other things. At first I
thought this said British renaissance, and I was like, what,
I don't get it.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
But they are.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
Talking about actually using blush, and this is what they
write again. Vogue Marie Antoinette blush, cherry blossom blush, watercolor blush.
Twenty twenty five marked the year of flushed and rosy cheeks.
On the surface, blush can add dimension and energy to
your entire look without putting too much effort. But experts
believe that this year we use blush as a marker
of our identity. We had a makeup sponsor, Merit that
(06:19):
sent us a blush that I love and I use
it all the time because I feel like I look
sick without it now. My niece had to teach me
how to use it, by the way, because that's the
way that you use it has changed over the years,
which is the whole different conversation. But I was like,
oh oh, and the application is so much easier than
what it used to be.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Yeah, and I love it and will say I did
hop on board in this one.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Annie.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Did you use your blush because you got.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Some Okay, okay, currently not a sponsor, no, but they were.
I did really enjoy their products. And actually I'm glad
you because I couldn't remember the name Marrit. I was like,
I knew I have it somewhere and I really enjoyed it,
and I just can't remember what it is. I don't
(07:08):
wear makeup unless time going out somewhere, and even then
I might not, yeah, depending on because usually I shower
before I go somewhere, which and I don't want to
have I don't want to shower again after I put
on the makeup.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Wash your face.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
I do, but it's not enough. Yeah, So I don't
wear I told.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
You I was gonna be turn well, Okay, I do
use this blush, and I do love the blush style.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
I think that's different.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
So this is from innertech dot com. H e U
R I T e C.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
H Uh.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
They had a boo ho chic and Swede.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
I do not wear Swede. I will tell you this,
But what I have used, and they have talked about
it is like the larger like bags and skirts and outerwear,
so like, what do you see is a little more
flowy and I am all for that. The more room
in my pants.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Weird, but the better.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
Like I love a floey but I don't use swayed.
Sweet is too heavy when you live in Georgia. It
feels like it's too much. Also, I am completely accident prone.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Sway is not great for that.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
No, famously not great for that.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
You have you worn any Swede as of late, I.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Can't recall the last time I wore Swede.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
I don't think I feel like mine was in the
nineties when I had a swayed jacket that again got
disgusting and nothing could clean it, like you took it
to the dryers and the color changed on it, like yeah,
dry cleaners, and I was.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Like, what just happened?
Speaker 4 (08:42):
Anyway, hotpants apparently is in any According to them as well,
they have become the new mini skirt, they said, and
it's styled with either bare legs or paired with stuckings.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
I will tell you no, I don't wear hotpants. I
never have, never will.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
I feel like I would shame my ancestors because I
do not.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
I would not look great in them.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
I'm not even entirely sure what hot pants are.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
They're pretty much like bloomer but tighter.
Speaker 5 (09:10):
Oh really yeah, like very short short hotpants. What seventy style,
very seventy style, like rollerbladers from those times with the
shorts shorts, Uh, tight pants like shorts that just come right.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Below the But they're called pants.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
Hot pants, very I believe. I'm pretty sure that's what
the pictures that I saw. Kids are going to be, like,
what the hell out with you? There's so many things.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
This is why we're not trendy. Uh, this is what
this is kind of for you.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
The elevated cute sportswear or at leisure wear has become
a huge trend this year. So it says for spring
summer twenty five, a shift towards softer, more feminine code
to sports like yoga, which feels very gendered and gross,
pilates and ballet is being shown think about effortless, more
cute elegance with a sporty edge. So essentially like wearing
(10:07):
yoga pants instead of jeans as a part of your outfit,
like wearing that, which, by the way, again very nineties,
because we would wear tights or legging like that and
with our boots, our Timberlin boots and the long socks
which is coming out, y'all is all here with like
a sweater.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
I do like the leggings with the sweater. Look, yeah,
that's good.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
It's back in.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
I know, you go out in most of the times
in like very convenient, like yoga pants with pockets and
sweatshirts and stuff. And I have just embraced the love
of sweatpants and tennis shoes while I go out.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
And I never used to wear I would never.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Yeah, it used to be like your life must be
falling apart sweatpants exactly.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
And now it's kind of cute and they want you
to have the whole outfit, the hoodie and being cute
with use and like I'm like.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
That's acceptable. Yeah I missed. I just have to make
sure we off here.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
Forever we've been preparing, we've been training for this, but yeah,
that's apparently in I appreciate that animal print. I have
never been a fan and that's an eighties as an
eighties I like it.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
I can't do it.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
I don't like it. I don't think it's not my thing.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
It's not my thing, and I think it's good on
a lot of people. But we grew up with it
being like older women, older rich women, like sixty seventies
wearing like or love you New Jersey, but that stereotype
of New Jersey people wearing leperskin pattern.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Yeah, I don't know. I just never no, I just
never liked it.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Well, we are not doing well in this trend.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
That will no.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
Then we have a couple of other things and we're
not talking about men. But one of the things I
didn't want to talk about was that men in makeup
have come to a rise, like the amount of people,
amount of men who are now wearing makeup has gone up,
as in fact, the purchase of Foundations went up nineteen
percent this year for men to use that as well
as other types of makeup, and it actually being at
(12:25):
advertising to geared toward men as well, which is lovely
to see feel good about yourself. The use of lab
grown diamonds have increased. And it's interesting the way they
speak about it, because it looks like it's a marketing
competition the entire time, not necessarily like environmental. So I'm
not really sure the context of it. But the rise
(12:46):
has come about as well as the fact that they
are competing about what's the best quality. The beers was
all up in that, So I don't know they are like, no,
make sure they know we are the leading. Whoever, again,
sports has risen again, they said from the meat glimpse
dot com. This is from meat Glimps dot com.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
At leisure.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
The mix of sports wear into everyday fashion is one
of the top fashion and apparel trends. Its growth is
oed to the decline of formality in American fashion and
the desire to be seen as healthy. I don't feel
like I've never noticed that as being healthy. No, but okay,
comfortable your pants, tights, sneakers, legings, gym shorts and so on.
(13:27):
I feel like jim shorts have always been acceptable because
men didn't are not.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
No, this is teered. It just cheered a memory for
me that I totally forgot about. So I at the
college I went to predominantly male college. Our newspaper printed
like an opinion piece. Oh, and it was basically like
it's acceptable for men to wear gym shorts to class,
(13:53):
but not women.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
And it caused this whole thing.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
On campus, and like people were people were writing in
and being so angry about like why so dudes can
wear jim shorts to class.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
If we can't. I forgot about that.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
It's the thing. It has always been a thing.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
One of the also other rises, obviously is Korean beauty products,
and I feel like that's been the trend for the
last two or three years on social media. Has a
lot to do with this, but they say, they write
the global cultural influence of K pop and K dramas
have affected a range of industries, from introducing popular skincare
trends like Glaskin and to sparking Korean inspired alcohol trends
so like soju, which has become big as well.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
So I'm like, it's true, it's true.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
A lot of like at least Asian focused makeup has
become more popularized over the last couple of years. This
is from trend hunter dot com. They have a lot
of lists as well. They have like over one hundred
different things from their twenty twenty five trend report, and
these were the few like beauty trends or like clothing
fashion trends.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
They say Dad.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
Bought T shirt are in again, I don't think that's
never been out. T shirts in general movie inspired apparel.
So we've had a lot of like and with that,
a lot of collabs are seen, whether it's through food,
whether it's through makeup, whether it's through clothing items. One
of the things they talked about is Wicked and Forever
twenty one having a collab with their stuff. I'm like, oh, yeah,
(15:20):
that makes sense. I see a lot of things happening
with like Capop Damen a Hunter again and having apparel.
We know that one of the biggest things with shoes
in like basketball. Like, all of these collabs and individual
people and celebrities are pretty huge and have always been.
So I don't know, but that's that was a thing.
(15:41):
Contemporary cowgirl clothing and I have seen a large amount
of boots.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Cowboy boots just another thing. I was never really a fan.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
I wasn't either.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
They're not comfortable. I had a pair when I was
a kid.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Oh really, even as a kid, I didn't think they
looked good, but also they weren't comfortable.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
Yeah that makes sense, that doesn't It doesn't look comfortable.
I think you have to break them in like any Yeah,
I'm sure.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
Being from L A J. I did not want cowboys.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
No. No.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
I wondered if there was an opposite I guess like Vans,
and I still didn't wear those either.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Converse that was big.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Yeah, do you know the Vans like the big uh.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
Thick shoes that looked like Yeah, that was That was
the opposite trend for us. And then there's the food trends.
This is from eater dot com. Macha Macha was big.
I really don't like Macha. I was telling someone that yesterday,
executive producer Maya, and she's like really, I was like, no,
I'm not a fan, did you. I guess you don't
drink Loft caffeine anymore, so you probably don't.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
I don't, but I did like.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
I liked certain Japanese restaurants they have the bunch of
ice creams and I liked that as a kids. Yeah,
I don't have a lot of experience with Macha outside
of that. I've had it, but that's like the first
thing that pops the ice cream.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
That makes sense.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
Uh, there's a rise of steakhouses, And it's true because
I actually went to one recently, and there's like several
around here in Atlanta that have popped open.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
And I was like, oh, yeah.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
Because it used to be such a foreign idea, Like
we went to one of the oldest ones in New
York a couple of years ago last year, and it
was wonderful, but the experience threw us back to the
eighties or seventies.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Yeah, a lot of times they do.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
I feel like it's either your going back in time
or you're like it's so new aging like, yeah.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
It's so ridiculous, but they're trying to make it old
school at the same time that it feels odd. It
was good. Atlanta one was really good, I will say.
And then Vogue wrote about proteins being one of the
biggest trends of the year, and it's true. I got
caught up in that too. I still am caught up
in it because I'm like, I don't know if I'm
getting into proteins, and then I'm like, maybe I'm getting
too many.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
This is what they wrote. Algorithms were filled with protein hacks.
Then we saw the launch of protein popcorn and protein
liquid drinks all over our grocery store aisles. Everyone was
obsessed with this nutrient and they still are.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
I think it has a little to do with like Atkins, maybe.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
The Atkins diet for listeners who might not younger folks
might not know.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
They still have products out there.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
It still exists.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
I in fact trying to get you to do some
more protein as they put it in your coffee.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
You did, but I was not eating too much so well.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
Also, yeah, this was about nutrients more so than the
protein part.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Yeah yeah, but this is another one where I'm like,
did this ever go away?
Speaker 4 (18:42):
I feel like it maybe not, But like iink, we're
saying adding more things into more protein instead of just
being like you need more proteins that are actually making products.
That's just like, oh it has proteins. Oh this has proteins. Milk,
this is proteins. Mm hmm, okay like that yeah yeah yeah.
Trend Hunter says that we have romantic champagne cocktails have
(19:04):
made a comeback.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Okay, I'm try.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
I don't feel like they've gone away either, but apparently
maybe again, this also has a lot of celebrity collabse.
We see a lot of groups like selling specific types
of food, ramen, k pop, like we've seen that as
a whole thing.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
If nothing else.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
Korean has got the whole celebrity collab on lock with
every damn thing, including coffee, including ramen, including your dumplings.
They love some celebrity collabs and sponsorships. Apparently there's a rise.
And I do see this with the toys in meals
(19:43):
and to the point that they were like being nostalgic
enough to gear it towards adults, like giving adult version
toys and like McDonald's toys and trends and people trying
to collect those, and now them being like selling out
in such masses.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
Did you see that? I know you didn't participate, but
have you seen.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
I feel that I did see as someone who unfortunately
still has to watch ads on YouTube, I feel that
I did see you.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Like an adult.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Happy Meal there at two a year, yeah, which they've
done before, but it was an ad about like here
are your adult Happy Meal options and here are the
toy options.
Speaker 4 (20:28):
And I was kind of like, uh, okay, yeah, it's
back in meat glimps dot com, which we are going
using several of their stuff because they have great categorized
trends for you to see statistically.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
But they put liquid mills as.
Speaker 4 (20:43):
Being one of the biggest trends of twenty twenty five,
and that actually has always been the thing a little bit,
but it has become even bigger. So they wrote today's
other category leader. Soilent first sold itself as the non
food of choice for busy for too busy to eat
Silicon Valley workers, but it's now facing a rising lot
tide of petition. Heughle, a person who contributed, says customers
(21:03):
include doctors, students, and shift workers, on top of fitness
buffs and efficiency obsessed tech executives.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
The focus is.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
On offering nutritionally complete meals rather than low calori products,
a message that mirrors the broader cultural shift toward health
and wellness over weight loss. So it's not just about
weight loss, it's just about getting what you can very
quickly out of there. And I think that rise has
come up because we can see it in smoothies, we
can see it in like even liquid IV and like
restoration care, all of this stuff, and that's interesting. They
(21:33):
also talk about food delivery apps, but not necessarily about
the usage, but about like decision making. So this is
what they wrote. The rise of food delivery apps has
led to unprecedented analysis paralysis, with consumers taking to TikTok
and Reddit for advice. Post titled what should I eat
rack up millions of views. Some apps, like Tiny Decisions
(21:55):
and food Picker, featured in February twenty twenty three, are
designed to help users rate the deadlock for the sake
of deciding, producing answers that are either truly random or
close to it. The which One app has emerged as
a blend of decision making meets social media. Users can
post polls for questions like what books should I read next?
Or what pictures should I post? On Instagram, providing a
(22:17):
dual opportunity both for posters to make decisions and scrollers
to feel their voice is heard. If your favorite creator
or artist pops a question, it even presents a unique
chance to be on the inside of their creative process.
So analysis paralysis has gone up and it has become
a friend in twenty twenty five, to the point that
there are apps made to help you decide what to eat.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Didn't This used to be called decision fatigue?
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Or we just you tell me because I don't know
the obviously.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Decision fatigue is like the common example would be if
you were at a sandwich place and had so many
options that you eventually were just like, I'm tired.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
Yeah, I can't make another decision.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
I will say when I go on vacation, and if
it's like something I supposed to be special for me,
I'm like, I don't want to do make decisions. Please
just do it for me, That's all I'm asking. And
like some of the biggest arguments, not arguments, but like frustrations,
this is going back and forth, what do you want
to need?
Speaker 3 (23:13):
I don't know what do you want to eat? Well?
Do you do you have? What do you like? So
maybe it is, but at this point.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
The analysis prows. It's okay.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
Analysis paralysis is a thing. Another food trend. Alternative milks
or dairy products rather postechio milk has gone up, but
ninety one percent.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
I don't even know if I've seen this, Nope, but
I have.
Speaker 4 (23:36):
I have tried, Like I there are brands that are
solely alternatives and have no like milk or dairy options.
So I've accidentally bought alternatives without meaning to.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
It would not surprise you how much of a war
in the dairy industry this is. I'm sure Savor has
done several episodes on it, but like calling something milk
and what it means, Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
Oh there's what a fight.
Speaker 4 (24:04):
But you know what, the trend is only rising because
they're adding more options, but it's more expensive than milk.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Yeah, unfortunately.
Speaker 4 (24:24):
And the other trends that I saw are was the
usage of AI and this is from meeting glimps dot com.
But we're not specifically talking about AI because we know
it is a trend. People are using it. It is
are on the rise, people are being forced to use it.
Whether or not you want to just be on internet
means you're probably on AI. But the one of the
increases of the usages of AI is for companionship. So
(24:49):
this is again from meet glimps dot com and they
write recently a number of companies have experimented with giving
robotic pests to nursing home residents. Remarkably, one business called
Pair got the FDA to classify their companion robots as
a medical device. This significant milestone allows the product to
be eligible for insurance coverage and shifting to spend from
(25:11):
the consumer to the insurance company means a whole lot
more revenue potential and less price sensitivity. So they're using
this purposely in order to see if they can help
the loneliness epidemic, not just mal but in general, maybe
in a medical way.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
I have seen, have you.
Speaker 4 (25:27):
I've gotten ads that aren't ads that are the robots
the way you can communicate, like your your sibling or
your pamily parents live across the country. These little robots
can pretend to be with you and you're just watching
them roam about and freely go around and talk to
you through this. I don't know that's not AI and robotics,
but like it's kind of that level.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
I haven't seen that, but I've seen an ad for
it's a puppy. Yeah, it's a robotic puppy. And the
ad starts out with like even a veterinarian anarian friend
didn't know.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
This, wasn't seen that.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
That's a lie.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
Yeah, that doesn't seem right.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
That's a lot.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
So the usage of AI Companion, which is one of
the companies, has gone up to one hundred and six
percent in its actual usage, So that's a huge number.
It could have been from zero to that, but you know,
and then of course again bots. This is from Forbes
dot com. And what I mean by bots, I mean
bots that like infiltrate social media.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
They write this.
Speaker 4 (26:32):
In twenty twenty five, bots are expected to account for
over fifty percent of Internet off traffic, which we noted
posing significant risk in areas like elections and the spread
of conspiracy theories. Key countermeasures to tackle the problem will
include using AI and machine learning to detect encounter increasingly
sophisticated human like bots. Of course, all of this conversation
(26:55):
has to do with like, what are the ais bringing
in the bots?
Speaker 1 (26:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (27:01):
Yeah, are the AI the boss ai? Mm hmmm.
Speaker 4 (27:08):
So that was coming from a Forbes because this one
was a more serious trend, global trend that I was like,
We're not getting into this, We're not getting into this.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
This is It is on our short list for episodes
of New Year.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Though, Yeah, I know it's gonna be sad.
Speaker 4 (27:24):
Like going back to music trends. Uh So this one
is from newsroom dot Spotify dot com.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
Two of the I.
Speaker 4 (27:30):
Believe workers or people that work in Spotify or having
an interview about some of those trends. They saw this
year kpop he made a huge rise. Growth of afrobeat
made a huge rise. I am one of those people
who was listening to afrobeat. So yeah, they did actually
say that they felt like social media things like TikTok
have really opened up for people to see a broader
(27:53):
selection of music worldwide, and so they think that this
type of reach has gotten big because of the again,
like the trends and the music's being used or the
sounds being used on different social media. So I find
that fascinating kind of exciting. Also, I thought I would
do a small thing about hobbies game like tabletop gaming
(28:14):
is on the rise, just for you to know, Anny.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
Have you played a lot of tabletop games recently this year?
Speaker 4 (28:22):
No?
Speaker 2 (28:22):
But I have so many I want to play. Some
of it is like you got to hang out with people,
although I do have some thanks to some listeners have
written in here. Some you can play by yourself, like
the Final Girl games you can play by yourself. So
I've been that Last of Us game. I gotta look
(28:43):
at that one, I mean, the Last of Us board game.
I bet it's hard. I bet it's really difficult.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
Yeah, I'm sure it.
Speaker 4 (28:51):
So some of the hobbies that teenagers and this is
from modakmakers dot com that were for twenty twenty five
were searches, which that makes me so happy as a
kid who also loved worse search, and I still love
them today that I'm.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
Like, kids love word search.
Speaker 4 (29:09):
Teenagers specifically teenagers. Just so you know, they also said
soaking corks was a thing.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
Okay, okay, I.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
Didn't know that was a thing. I didn't know that
was a thing for like children.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
Yeah, like I knew it existed, but I've never I
don't even.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
Know if I knew existed.
Speaker 4 (29:30):
To be fair, some of the trends for adults and
one of the what what do you think? Was one
of the number one hobbies for.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
Adults this year coloring.
Speaker 4 (29:40):
No when I say you're going to give me as
a pickleball?
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Oh sure, yeah, I never heard of pickleball. And then Sudden.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
Everywhere Apparently in twenty twenty five they the business one
of the businesses that were for pickleball. It's worth over
three million dollars. It went from like being a shark
take to a three million dollar company in a year
because of the popularity of pickleball. Apparently, seniors, seniors really
like pickleball. Yeah, so I hear apparently, who knew? I
(30:15):
didn't know that, But it makes sense. F one fandom
has gone up.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Yeah, gosh, oh it has.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
Oh you know this, I'm seeing this and a lot
of fan fiction people are writing F one really like
Star Wars fan fiction. I did not know that that
makes sense now that you say, because there's been like
three or four that I've seen recently, are like, why
are we doing F one? Okay, all right, who knew?
Speaker 3 (30:42):
I did not know this.
Speaker 4 (30:43):
Now I knew pickleball was getting like a lot of love.
I didn't realize that was gonna be. Yeah, has loved
as it's such such a rich sport.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
Yeah, I don't know much about it other than it
feels like a.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
Kind of a rich older.
Speaker 4 (31:02):
Yeah, Lamborghinia type of like FERRARII people that we only
think about rich.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
I'm happy for.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
Yeah. Hobbies are good, sure, sure, just be careful.
Speaker 4 (31:15):
And we asked a list from hobbyco dot com and
they said that the most popular hobby in twenty twenty
five were model kids people bringing back the model kids
because creativity and patience apparently was love puzzles and brain users.
I knew it would be there. That was number three
for them. Board games and tabletops were number four, and
then the number five was collectibles and pop culture, including
(31:39):
things like Star Wars figurines as well as Pokemon cars
type of thing. Huh, how many of those were you
a part of?
Speaker 1 (31:49):
I feel like you're cute.
Speaker 4 (31:54):
But there are some of the trends of twenty twenty five.
I am, I will be. I think we'll try to
do this again next year. Remind me any because I
want to forget, or we will look and see if
any of these have changed for us, or if we
pick up any I don't think pickleball will be a
thing for me.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
No, I don't neither, Swede.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
I could animal print. No, unless something very wild happens
in my life. I don't think so.
Speaker 3 (32:20):
I might go back to the Bob. That might happen
this year. Okay, it might happen this year.
Speaker 4 (32:25):
Well, everyone happy twenty twenty six. As we are here,
let us know what you thought of some of these trends.
Did you think there was something that was glaringly omitted? Yeah,
don't tell us sad stuff. They just interesting stuff.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
Did you ever have an unfortunate bob?
Speaker 4 (32:45):
Oh? My bobs are always been very cute like that.
My whoever would cut my hair did a really great job.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
Well, I was asking the listeners. I appreciate me.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
Yes, let us know about your bob. Did you have
a bowl cut? Did you have a pick? See that
went wrong?
Speaker 2 (33:02):
All right, I like how we were like, don't tell
us any sad stuff, but give us your hair horror story.
Speaker 3 (33:07):
It is not sad. Then I'm in world.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
Yeah, if you can look back and I can look
back at last right, Yeah, it wasn't funny at the time,
though you can love it. No, it looked very terrible. Oh,
I'll try to find a picture to you. It is
no good. Yeah, let us know about what trends you
saw and what we might have missed. Uh, and we
(33:32):
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