What do our Google searches tell us about ourselves? I think that many of you will be quite surprised by what I have to share in this article. “Google’s Year in Search” for 2025 has been released, and it is a doozy. The past 12 months have been so crazy, and the top search trends of 2025 certainly reflect that. Let’s start with the top search trend.
“Charlie Kirk” is number one on the list, and his assassination completely shocked the nation. But it certainly was not an isolated incident.
Political violence is on the rise in our society. In fact, if President Trump had not moved his head slightly at just the right moment at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania last year, he would not be in the White House today. Charlie Kirk was a prominent figure before his death, but after he died suddenly everyone knew who he was.
Unfortunately, I believe that we will see even more political violence in 2026. There is just so much anger and frustration out there right now on all sides.
“KPop Demon Hunters” is number two on Google’s list, and that stunned me. According to Wikipedia, it is “a 2025 animated musical film from Sony Pictures Animation and Netflix about a K-pop girl group, HUNTR/X, who secretly fight demons while performing, facing off against a rival demon boy band called the Saja Boys”.
Needless to say, it is particularly popular among young people. This year our society continued to be fascinated by entertainment that explores very dark themes, and that is quite alarming. And we see this with the third item on the list as well.
According to Wikipedia, Labubu is “a popular line of collectible, mischievous-looking elf-like monster figures created by Hong Kong artist Kasing Lung, known for their large ears, sharp teeth, and scruffy appearance, sold primarily through blind boxes by the company Pop Mart, which has led to a global craze and high resale demand.”
The sharp teeth and bizarre eyes certainly make them look like monsters. In the old days, kids would play with teddy bears and other stuffed animals. But now kids want to play with creatures that look like they have been pulled straight out of a nightmare.
I don’t think that is a good thing.
The iPhone 17 came in at number four on the list, and that shouldn’t surprise anyone. Most of us are so addicted to our phones, and I don’t think that is going to change any time soon.
The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” came in at number five in the list, the government shutdown came in at number eight in the list, and “tariffs” came in at number ten in the list. I think that is quite appropriate, because this is a year when the news was so focused on political drama.
Donald Trump’s first year in office was an extremely busy one, and people all over the country were endlessly talking about it.
There are tens of millions of Americans that absolutely love Trump, and there are tens of millions of Americans that absolutely hate Trump.
Of course Donald Trump will continue to play a central role in our society for as long as he remains in the White House. A new political star on the left made the list at number six.
New York elected a “democratic socialist” named Zohran Mamdani as their new mayor, and suddenly he has become a major national celebrity. That is pretty remarkable considering the fact that he wasn’t even a U.S. citizen a decade ago.
“DeepSeek” came in at number seven on the list, and I was glad to see that a term associated with AI was represented.
For better or worse, AI is in the process of transforming virtually every area of our society. Interestingly, the FIFA Club World Cup ranked number nine on the list. I still don’t think that Chelsea deserved to win the final, but PSG just didn’t show up that day for some reason. Personally, I was shocked that the Epstein files did not make the top ten, but it did rank number eight in “news searches”.
To me, the drama surrounding the Epstein files was perhaps the most important political story of the year. It has dramatically shifted political opinion, and I think that much of the damage that has been done is permanent.
When they were finally released, they were so heavily redacted that they didn’t tell us much that we didn’t already know. And now we are being told that they have discovered a million more documents that hopefully we will get to see eventually.
2025 has been so wild, and now 2026 is nearly upon us. 27 years ago, USA Today and Gallup asked Americans what they thought 2025 would be like…
In the year 1998, Bill Clinton was facing impeachment proceedings, “Titanic” was cleaning up at the Oscars and most households still had landline phones. Gallup and USA Today called up 1,055 Americans on those landlines and asked them for their best predictions about a year in the distant future: 2025.
It turns out that those that responded to the survey were quite accurate about certain things, but on other matters they were way off…
Some were surprisingly prescient. Most Americans predicted that, over the next 27 years, the country would have elected a Black president, gay marriages would be legal and commonplace and a “deadly new disease” would have emerged.
Most people in 1998 correctly doubted that space travel would be common for ordinary Americans or that alien life forms would have made contact.
Other predictions didn’t hold up as well. About two-thirds of Americans thought the country would have elected a female president by now. More than half expected a cure for cancer and 61% expected that “people will routinely live to be 100 years old.”
Wouldn’t it be nice if most people lived to be 100 years old? Sadly, life expectancy in the U.S. has fallen to the lowest level since 1996. The first half of this decade brought us the pandemic, several major wars, the AI revolution and an endless series of natural disasters. But if you thought that was wild, just wait until you see what happens during the second half of this decade.
The pace of change is about to go into overdrive. So buckle up and hold on tight, because things are about to start getting really, really crazy.
Michael’s new book entitled “10 Prophetic Events That Are Coming Next” is available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.com, and you can subscribe to his Substack newsletter at michaeltsnyder.substack.com.
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