The 25 Best Memes of 2025

As we say our goodbyes to 2025, we must bid adieu to the memes that came with it. It was a surreal year on the internet — many of this year’s memes leaned heavily into the brain rot that’s come with the rise of AI and over-consumerism, though others sprang out of good old-fashioned candid camera moments. Trump was back in office, Katy Perry was in space, and kids everywhere were screaming “six seven” for some reason, before adults co-opted it and made it cringe. Presented to you in roughly the order they came into our lives, let’s take a walk through the memes that defined 2025 — for better and for worse.