It's time to bid farewell to a year marked by late-night controversies, movie theater chaos and celebrities literally leaving planet Earth.
2025 was filled with the kind of pop culture stories that travel far outside entertainment news circles, whether it was an internet-breaking celebrity engagement or a jeans ad that may well have come up during Thanksgiving dinner.
It was also a year that brought even more instability to an entertainment industry that can hardly stand any more of it amid its ongoing recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.
With a new year in sight, these were the pop culture moments that, for better or worse, came to define 2025.
If you've revisited Kendrick Lamar's Super Bowl halftime show upwards of 30 times on YouTube throughout 2025, you're not alone.
