Now that we’ve had a month to settle and the flavour of the year has emerged from the soup of time and space, we at Ubyssey humour have sampled it and assembled a list of ingredients — I mean, ins and outs, to inform the cultural moment of 2025. No need to thank us.
Ins
- Calling out fascism
- Seeing friends at the gym
- Subway sandwiches
- Ryan Gosling
- Lime green polka dots
- Conversing with geese
- French braiding French fries
- Comically large utensils
- Living at the bottom of a well
- Holding your friends close
- Resisting the governance of culture, discussion and information propagation by private entities through migrating to decentralized social networks federated through the ActivityPub protocol
- Minecraft
- Eating three balanced meals per day AND snacks
- Free non-dairy milk
- Using an RSS reader
- Adding The Ubyssey to your RSS reader
- Bonding with strangers
- Doomed yet noble dreams
- Being chalant
- Memes from 2016
- Fire emojis
- Vegetable gardens
- The Alphabet Song
- Pimple patches
- Cropdusting
- Glasses that sit on your face in a slightly jaunty fashion
- Fake crying to freak out your friends
- Saying “freak” in every sentence
- Writing reference letters as a mere child
- Holding your friends close
Outs
- Skipping class
- Learning from your mistakes
- Waking up before 10 a.m.
- Ryan Reynolds
- Friendship bracelets
- The intersection of E 12th Ave and Victoria Dr
- Minecraft YouTubers
- Being "online"
- Consensus reality
- Knowing what’s going on
- Acronyms
- Solving problems
- Prognosticating disaster
- Chilling
- Microphones
- "Rizz"
- Devil's advocate
- Overpriced sweet treats
- UBC Housing
- Musty lecture halls
- Chipotle not FUCKING giving someone (me) a full scoop of chicken
- Bass-boosted anything
- Toddlers
- Necessary phone calls
- Trying to impress your manager at work
- Netflix documentaries
- Holding your enemies closer
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