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Born in 2025? Here's the world you arrived into

In 2025, "Die with a Smile" topped the charts, Ne Zha 2 packed theaters, a stamp cost 73¢, the average home went for about $410,000.

What things cost in 2025

2025's prices essentially are today's prices — but for perspective, a stamp cost 49¢ and gas averaged just $2.43 a decade earlier.

The biggest moments of 2025

• The animated musical KPop Demon Hunters became Netflix's most-watched movie ever, and its song "Golden" topped the charts for eight weeks.
• China's Ne Zha 2 became the first animated film in history to earn two billion dollars worldwide.
• Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars' duet "Die with a Smile" was the biggest song of the year.

• The Philadelphia Eagles routed Kansas City in Super Bowl LIX, denying the Chiefs a historic three-peat.
• Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams finally splashed down in March, after a planned week-long test flight stretched into nine months in space.
• Astronomers spotted comet 3I/ATLAS, only the third interstellar visitor ever detected passing through our solar system.

Toys, TV & trends of 2025

• Labubu, a mischievous nine-toothed plush from Pop Mart, became the collectible craze of the year.
• Kids drove grown-ups crazy by saying "6-7" in every conversation.
• KPop Demon Hunters costumes and singalongs were everywhere, from playgrounds to Halloween.

• AI-generated "Italian brainrot" characters like Ballerina Cappuccina took over kids' vocabularies.
• Roblox's Grow a Garden shattered records with more than 21 million players tending crops at the same time.
• The Nintendo Switch 2 launched in June and became the fastest-selling game console in U.S. history.

The music scene

Kendrick Lamar's Super Bowl halftime show — complete with Samuel L. Jackson as Uncle Sam and Serena Williams dancing — reached his biggest audience ever and sent "Not Like Us" back to No. 1. Alex Warren's "Ordinary" then owned the summer with double-digit weeks atop the Hot 100. In October, Taylor Swift's The Life of a Showgirl arrived with 34 collectible variants and parked at No. 1 on the album chart for more than ten weeks.

At the movies

Anora won five Oscars, including Best Picture, in March. A Minecraft Movie unleashed the "chicken jockey" craze, with theater crews sweeping up popcorn after crowds erupted at that scene. And Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle stunned Hollywood with a $70 million debut — the biggest anime opening ever — on its way to becoming the highest-grossing anime film of all time.

Cartoons kids loved

• Bluey
• SpongeBob SquarePants
• Gabby's Dollhouse

Netflix's KPop Demon Hunters proved a streaming-original cartoon could out-muscle theatrical blockbusters, rewriting the rules of animation overnight. Preschool giants went big-screen too, with Gabby's Dollhouse: The Movie hitting theaters, while anime's record-smashing year confirmed Japanese animation as mainstream American entertainment.

The world in 2025

• World population: about 8.2 billion
• U.S. President: Donald Trump
• Cardinal Robert Prevost of Chicago became Pope Leo XIV, the first American-born pope.

• Wildfires devastated Los Angeles neighborhoods in January, and strangers and stars alike rallied to help rebuild.
• Sweeping new U.S. tariffs announced in April rattled markets and dominated economic news for months.
• Israel and Hamas agreed to a ceasefire and hostage release in October, two years after the war began.

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