2025 has been another pivotal year when climate change and global warming fought for media attention amid competing issues, events, challenges and intersecting stories around the globe. This was a year when new vocabularies also continued to spike our consciousness: ‘rage bait’: “online content deliberately designed to elicit anger or outrage by being frustrating, provocative, or offensive, typically posted in order to increase traffic to or engagement with a particular web page or social media account” (named word of the year by Oxford Dictionary) and ‘slop’: “digital content of low quality that is produced usually in quantity by means of artificial intelligence” (named word of the year by Miriam-Webster) may indicate the times we’re currently navigating. Additional terms bandied about more regularly in 2025 like ‘touch grass’, ‘performative’, ‘vibe coding’ and ‘parasocial’ also help us understand our collective circumstances. Let’s also not forget the meaningless utterance by younger word (or number) smithers of ‘67’ that invaded our lives in 2025.